The Bitter Cry of the Children

by John Spargo

[99]. Hansard, 1832.

[100]. The whole poem is given in Mr. H. S. Salt’s little anthology, Songs of Freedom, p. 81.

[101]. Report on the Ten Hours Bill. J. Morrison Davidson, op. cit., p. 268.

[102]. Robert Hunter, Child Labor in New York, Being a Report to the Governor of New York.

[103]. Child Labor Legislation—A Requisite for Industrial Efficiency, by Jane Addams, in the Annals of the American Academy, May, 1905, p. 131.

[104]. Problems of the Present South, by Edgar Gardner Murphy, p. 313.

[105]. Quoted in Charities, August 26, 1905.

[106]. Illiteracy Promoted by Perjury. A pamphlet issued by the Pennsylvania Child Labor Committee.

[107]. U. S. Census, vol. ii.

[108]. Illiteracy Promoted by Perjury, p. 3.