Posted in On This Day, tagged child labor, gov charles brantley aycock, green, moses cone, oyster shucking, w.l. london on January 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »
On this day in 1903: In his biennial message to the General Assembly, Gov. Charles Brantley Aycock calls for legislation “in behalf of the children who are working in textile and furniture factories.” Manufacturers, who have beaten back previous restrictions on child labor, want no part of Aycock’s proposals – “Yankee doings,” in the words [...]
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
