Posted in From the Stacks on June 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Cartoon placed by Democrats in the North Carolinian (Fayetteville), October, 10, 1840. This image is included in Dr. H. G. Jones’s North Carolina Illustrated and includes the following caption: “Martin Van Buren supporters countered with a cartoon portraying Whig symbols—log cabin, hard cider, and a raccoon mascot—as tricks to catch ‘honest’ Democrats.”
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged child labor, world war ii on June 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“Booming war industries have already increased child labor…. During 1941 North Carolina issued 10,000 new labor certificates to 17- and 18-year-olds, 1,000 to 12-to-15-year-olds. ‘The situation,’ observed State Labor Commissioner F. H. Shuford, with a dead pan, ‘is as healthy as the war that brought it on.’ ” – From Time magazine, June 15, 1942
