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fZAGE SIX
CHILD AND ALIEN
LABOR IN BEETS
American Farm Worker Not Pro
tected by Sugar Tariff.
LOW WAGES ARE BEING PAID
■‘Yankee* Not Wanted,” Say Field
Manager* in Colorado and
Michigan.
By H. E. MILES,
Chairman of the Fair Tariff League.
The American furiner nnd the
Mnerlcan worker are always the chief
objects of solicitude, put forward by
lie high tariff politicians, when an up
ward revision of the tariff Is In order.
That has always been true and Is now
rue lu Congress In connection with ef
forts to enact the high rates In the
rordnejr so-called Permanent Tariff
BUI.
The farmer ns well as the worker,
however, has come to realize thul any
benefit he may derive from an exorbi
tant tariff, levied In the name of pro
tection on an article which he pro-
luces, Is more than offset by the
tribute which be must pay on nrtl-
les which be consumes but does not
raise.
Sugar is a good example of bow this
works out with reference to the farm
er. The American heel sugar Industry
prospered under a protective tariff of
one cent a pound on Cuban raw sugar.
The Emergency Tariff Act Increased
' his (10 per cent. One of the arguments
advanced for this tremendous increas*
was that the beet sugar Industry need-
■d tills protection In order to protect
the American farm laborer engaged In
raising sugnr beets.
Unfortunately for tills argument
here Is very little Aincrtcun farm lulmt
in the beet sugar Industry as the ree-
>rds of the Itepartnient of Labor and
•lie Itepartnient of Agriculture slmw.
Sugar heels are raised and harvested
almost entirely by the cheapest gnnh
obtainable of foreign labor, contracted
for by the sugar manufacturers and
t.lrned over to the beet growers.
Field bosses In the beet sugar see
tlons have Indeed frequently told In
\estimators that American labor Is not
wanted because “h l’ankee can’t atuml
the bard work."
Child Labor In Majority
Not only Is the larger part of the
beet sugar labor this low priced for
elgn labor which we are warned
against hut even a larger part are tin
children of these foreign families.
In Colorado alone, one of the most
Important licet sugar states, the Nj
tonal Child Labor Committee found
r»,(MHI children between the ages of six
and fifteen years, practically all ot
alien parents, regularly engaged In the
cultivation of sugar hppts.
From the time the beets are In the
{round until they are delivered at the
factory the hardest kind of nianuul la
Lor I* required. And iiiueli of tliia Is
done by small children. Tlieae children
spend long, hard hour* on their band
Slid knee* weeding' and thinning the
beets. Then whan the beets sre full
grown they spend more long, hard
hours lifting the heavy roots to tlieli
knees and with a wide sweep of a dan
gerously sharp killTe cut off Ilia tops.
The Federal Children's Bureau made
an Intensive study of the Colorado sit
nation. (If LOTT Included In this study
seven-tenths were the children of con
tract laborers. Over one fourlh of
them were under ten years old, a small
percentage under eight. Less than
.•me-tlfth were as much as fourteen
years old. Considerably over u half
ranged from nine to thirteen. From
■>lt to 8a per cent, according to tin*
•process In which the child was engug-
,cd, worked nine hours or more a day.
From one-seventh to one-third, again
varying with the process, worked
-deven hours or more a day. The
average working day for all processes
was usually between nine and ten
hours.
Evil Effect on Children
Poslurul deformities and malpos)
ilons were found In 70 per cent of the
children examined by the Bureau’ll
physicians. Another serious effect It
die InterferenNt with their educa
11on. Among Oho children frm
nine to sixteen years , , age for
school records were obtained over in
per cent were from one to seven years
oelow the normal grade for their age.
The general study of the Nat Iona I
'hlld Labor Committee in <’o|yrudo
iml Michigan Indicates that these 0M1
lltions hold generally throughout the
beet raising sections. A farmer win
>wiis or leases land contracts with flic
rmgar company to' furnish a certain
number of acres on which beets are to
be grown. The company agrees to fur-
Misti the hand labor. The company
lien contracts \v!l!i n laborer, usually
i itusslnn, Jap or .Mexican, to do the
work on a dellnlte number of acres.
'J’lie number of acres a laborer con
tracts to care for Is based largely on
die number of children he has.
The labor employed In the Colorado
beet fields Is practically all foreign bl
uer. Mexican, Japanese and Russian.
The Mexicans and Japanese, however,
do not work their children as much as
■ lo tin* Russians The Russian chil
dren often begin work as early as four
o>r tin* >ears of age.
Jn Michigan conditions are very sim
itar. excepting that tin* nationalities
nt ilie workers are more diversified,
net there are fewer Russians and Mcx-
cans and no Japanese. They are
nade up largely of Hungarians. Slavs
Voiii the small provinces, Polish ami
’.emians. In Michigan, as In Colora
do. till* beet people are exploiting the
foreign laborer and his children.
All of wlibdi pretty thoroughly punc
tures aliy pretense that a high tariff
• ui sugar will in any way protect Aiuer-
Iauu farm labor. »
THE CHEROKEE ADVANCE, Lrtniun, ucoaum
"I *u weak and run-down,"
relate* Mrs. Eula Burnett, of
Dalton, Qa. “I waa thin and
juat felt tired, all tha Urn a.
I didn’t rest well. I wasn’t
OTer hungry. I knew, by
this, I needed n tonle, and
aa tharo Is rone better than—
ICAIDUII
The Woman’s Tonic
. . , I began using Cardtil,”
continues Mrs. Burnett.
"After my first bottle, I slept
better and ate better. I took
four bottles. Now I’m well,
feel Just fine, eat and sleep,
my skin Is clear and I hart
gained nnd aura feel that
Cardnf Is the best tonic aver
made.”
Thousands of otber women
have found Cardul Just aa
Mrs Burnett did. It should
help you.
At all druggists.
E.r
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
News From
New Home
School is progressing nicely at
this place under the managment of
Mrs. Maud Black.
Miss Bessie Grier visited Miss
Estelle Reeves sunday P. M.
Misses Paulien and Lois Lance
were visiting Miss Veno Daniel Sun
day. i
Several from at mind Mt. Gilead
attended the poud supper given by
Miss Kffie Staples Saturday night.
Nettie Daniel visited Mrs. Maud
Black Sunday.
Mr. Willie Onsby and wife spent
Saturday night with Mr. Henry
Black nnd family.
Miss Ruby Whitfield wus visiting
home folks Saturday night nnd Sun
day.
Mr. Russel Daniel visited Mr. Her
bert Bluck Sunday.
Mr. Paul Danger passed thru our
fcurg Sunday P. M.
Misses Pearl and Claude Reeves
visited Mr. Black’s family Sunday.
Mr. Homer Reevo.-> and familv
visited Mr. J. T. Daniel and family
Fv» !v tdi/hl.
Mr. Dewey Cox and wife were
visiting his uncle J. B. Fitzgerald
Sunday.
Miss Ola Mae S tephens visited
her sister Mrs. Lillie Allen Saturday
night.
E. M. McCANLESS
Attorney-at-Law
CANTON, GEORGIA
Over The Canton Drug Storo
WILLIAM D. HOGAN
DENTIST
Office over Palmer's Store
CANTON, GEORGIA
A. J. HENDERSON
Attorney-at-Law
200 Darnall Bldg. Canton, Ga
Will Practice in A11 Courta
ITERP.ERT CLAY
Attornnv-a f -Law
MARIETTA, GEORGIA
Will Practice i t AH Courta
News From
Cokers Chapel
The singing at Cokers Chapel was
enjoyed by all present Sunday P. M.
School is progressing nicely under
the management of Miss Mary Mc
Clure.
Mr. Sam Wilkey spent Saturday-
night with Mr. Arthur Wilkie.
Era Wheeler has returned home
after spending the week with her
grandparents.
The singing given by Mr. Arthur
Wilkie Friday night was enjoyed by
all present.
Miss Myrtie Porter spent Satur
day with Miss Era Wheeler.
Misses Mattie Lawson and Ethel
Williams spent Sunday with Miss
Mary McClure.
Miss Agrie Porter spent Saturday
afternoon with Miss Mary McClure.
M. and Mrs. R. T. Coker spent
Sunday afternoon with Mr. Lee
Hester.
The guests of Mrs. Maggie Wil
kie Wednesday afternoon were; Mrs.
Eveline Richards. Mrs. Sallie Price,
Mrs. Lola Wilkie. Mrs. J. H. Wilkie,
Miss Ida Lawson nnd Miss Annie
Wilkie.
Mrs. Joe Porter was the guest of
her daughter Mrs. Maggie Wilkie
Wednesday..
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