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Accident to young cotton mill worker. Giles Edmund Newsom (Photo October 23rd, 1912) while working in Sanders Spinning Mill, Bessemer City, N.C., August 21st, 1912, a piece of the machine fell on to his foot mashing his toe. This caused him to fall on to a spinning machine and his hand went into the unprotected gearing, crushing and tearing out two fingers. He told the Attorney he was 11 years old when it happened. His parents are now trying to make him 13 years old. The school census taken at the time of the accident makes him12 years (parents' statement) and school records say the same. His school teacher thinks he is 12. His brother (see photo 3071) is not yet 11 years old. Both of the boys worked in the mill several months before the accident. His father, (R.L. Newsom) tried to compromise with the Company when he found the boy would receive the money and not the parents. The mother tried to blame the boys for getting jobs on their own hook, but she let them work several months. The aunt said "Now he's jes got to where he could be of some help to his ma an' then this happens and he can't never work no more like he oughter." Location: Bessemer City, North Carolina.
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Accidents; Bessemer City; Boys; North Carolina; Photographic Prints; Textile Mill Workers; United States; Wounds & Injuries
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Accident to young cotton mill worker. Giles Edmund Newsom (Photo October 23rd, 1912) while working in Sanders Spinning Mill, Bessemer City, N.C. August 21st, 1912, a piece of the machine fell on to his foot mashing his toe. This caused him to fall on to a spinning machine and his hand went into the unprotected gearing, crushing and tearing out two fingers. He told the Attorney he was 11 years old when it happened. His parents are now trying to make him 13 years old. The school census taken at the time of the accident makes him12 years (parents' statement) and school records say the same. His school teacher thinks he is 12. His brother (see photo 3071) is not yet 11 years old. Both of the boys worked in the mill several months before the accident. His father, (R.L. Newsom) tried to compromise with the Company when he found the boy would receive the money and not the parents. The mother tried to blame the boys for getting jobs on their own hook, but she let them work several months. The aunt said "Now he's jes got to where he could be of some help to his ma an' then this happens and he can't never work no more like he oughter." Location: Bessemer City, North Carolina.
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Accidents; Bessemer City; Boys; North Carolina; Photographic Prints; Textile Mill Workers; United States; Wounds & Injuries
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[Accident to young cotton mill worker. Giles Edmund Newsom (Photo October 23rd, 1912), while working in Sanders Spinning Mill, Bessemer City, N.C., August 21st, 1912, a piece of the machine fell on to his foot mashing his toe. This caused him to fall on to a spinning machine and his hand went into unprotected gearing, crushing and tearing out two fingers. He told the Attorney he was 11 years old when it happened. His parents are now trying to make him 13 years old. The school census taken at the time of the accident makes him12 years (parents' statement) and school records say the same. His school teacher thinks that he is 12. His brother (photo 3071) is not yet 11 years old. Both of the boys worked in the mill several months before the accident. His father, (R.L. Newsom) tried to compromise with the Company when he found the boy would receive money and not the parents. The mother tried to blame the boys for getting jobs on their own hook, but she let them work several months. The aunt said "Now he's jes got to where he could be of some help to his ma an' then this happens and he can't never work no more like he oughter."] Location: [Bessemer, North Carolina].
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Accidents; Bessemer; Boys; North Carolina; Photographic Prints; Textile Mill Workers; United States; Wounds & Injuries
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Accident to young cotton mill worker. Giles Edmund Newsom (Photo October 23rd, 1912), while working in Sanders Spinning Mill, Bessemer City, N.C., August 21st, 1912, a piece of the machine fell on to his foot mashing his toe. This caused him to fall on to a spinning machine and his hand went into unprotected gearing, crushing and tearing out two fingers. He told the Attorney he was 11 years old when it happened. His parents are now trying to make him 13 years old. The school census taken at the time of the accident makes him12 years (parents' statement) and school records say the same. His school teacher thinks that he is 12. His brother (see photo 3071) is not yet 11 years old. Both of the boys worked in the mill several months before the accident. His father, (R.L. Newsom) tried to compromise with the Company when he found the boy would receive money and not the parents. The mother tried to blame the boys for getting jobs on their own hook, but she let them work several months. The aunt said "Now he's jes got to where he could be of some help to his ma an' then this happens and he can't never work no more like he oughter." Location: Bessemer City, North Carolina.
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Accidents; Bessemer City; Boys; North Carolina; Photographic Prints; Textile Mill Workers; United States; Wounds & Injuries
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Accident to young mill worker. Giles Edmund Newsom (Photo October 23rd, 1912) while working in Sanders Spinning Mille [i.e., Mill], Bessemer City, N.C., August 21st, 1912, a piece of the machine fell on to his foot mashing his toe. This caused him to fall on to a spinning machine and his hand went into unprotected gearing, crushing and tearing out two fingers. He told the Attorney he was 11 years old when it happened. His parents are now trying to make him 13 years old. The school census taken at the time of the accident makes him12 years old (parents' statement) and school records say the same. His school teacher thinks he is 12. His brother (see photo 3071) is not yet 11 years old. Both of the boys worked in the mill several months before the accident. His father, (R.L. Newsom) tried to compromise with the Company when he found the boy would receive the money and not the parents. The mother tried to blame the boys for getting jobs on their own hook, but she let them work several months. The aunt said "Now he's jes got to where he could be of some help to his ma an' then this happens and he can't never work no more like he oughter." Location: Bessemer City, North Carolina.
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Accidents; Bessemer City; Boys; North Carolina; Photographic Prints; Textile Mill Workers; United States; Wounds & Injuries
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African American woman working in a textile plant, Tennessee, circa late 1970s.
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African American Labor Union Members; African Americans; Amalgamated Clothing And Textile Workers Union; Amalgamated Clothing And Textile Workers Union. Memphis Jackson Joint Board; Labor Unions; Textile Industry; Textile Workers; Women; Women Textile Workers
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Afro-American women from Ayer Mill
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Ayer Mill (Lawrence, Mass.) Spinning Department; Textile Mill Workers
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A.J. Whittenberg Interview 2
Whittenberg, A.J
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African Americans; Civil Rights; Civil Rights Demonstrations; Discrimination; Discrimination In Employment; Economic Aspects; Ku Klux Klan (1915); Race Discrimination; Racism; Segregation; Segregation In Education; Textile Manufacturers; Textile Workers; Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934); United States; United States. National Recovery Administration; Women; Working Class African Americans; Working Class Women
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Alma Friday and E.O. Friday Interview
Friday, Alma
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African Americans; Civil Rights; Civil Rights Movements; Cotton Textile Industry; Discrimination; Discrimination In Employment; Education; Employees; Employment; Factories; Great Depression; Industrial Management; Labor Unions; Modena Cotton Mills (Gastonia, N.C.); New Deal (1933 1939); Segregation; Strikes And Lockouts; Textile Factories; Textile Industry; Textile Manufacturers; Textile Workers; Unfair Labor Practices; Wages; Working Class African Americans
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Alma Friday, Yvonnie Hill, and Alan Waffle Interviews
Friday, Alma
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Archives; Cotton Textile Industry; Eagle Yarn Mills (Belmont, N.C.); Employees; Factories; Modena Cotton Mills (Gastonia, N.C.); Museums; Strikes And Lockouts; Textile Factories; Textile Industry; Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
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