Muck John Spargo's The Bitter Cry Of The Children

No free time like a regular child would get today, just going to the mines ready to have permanent scar on your body. Let’s say you are a 9 year old boy in the 1880’s. If you habited in the right side of the country, you were considered a hard-working factory worker.The majority of these kids were unhealthy, monotonous, and not incapable to continue on. In 1900’s, over 1.7 million children under the age of 16 works outside their homes. For many years, children had been suffering until the Reformers established the National Child Labor Committee. Not until the 1906, Muck John Spargo 1906 book, called the “The Bitter Cry of the Children”, In his book, he stated that the young workers how the environment was. According to Spargo, he claimed the “breaker boys” …show more content…
There's a quote in the book he wrote about, in which he states, “The coal is hard, and accidents to the hands, such as cut, broken, or crushed fingers, are common among the boys. Sometimes there is a worse accident: a terrified shriek is heard, and a boy is mangled and torn in the machinery, or disappears in the chute to be picked out later smothered and dead. Clouds of dust fill the breakers and are inhaled by the boys, laying the foundations for asthma and miners' consumption.” You can tell how deeply he wrote those sentences and convince the United States for passing laws. So that being said, he also helped with women's rights and civil rights. It looks like all what Spargo has done was considered “not a lot”, but the fact that he stopped children from going to the dangerous coal mines that risk their lives to work for little to no money, is one step closer to what we are doing today, there were many more laws to stop child labor like in factories. Remember what I told you about the permanent scars the little kids got, be thankful you aren't there and unfortunately, here.thx for