glass man
Well-Known Member
I bought a really cool pamphlet.TITLED"A BOY DESTROYING TRADE" The Glass Bottle Industry of NEW Jersey,Pennsylvania,Ohio,Indiana ,and Illinois"
It tells how boys as young as 7 years old are being used and how they live..what they do etc.It talks of other States too..and how they work 10 hour days and how it is trying to be made better for the kids to be at least 14!
Tells how the GLASS INDUSTRY has Congress in their hip pocket basically..HA some things never change. Talks about the earnings of the glass blowers depend on the speed of the boys who fetch and carry for them.
"A boy would say something like "My name is Faber" then run to the cooling oven with his load of bottles and returning say.,"I live in a boat by the river ;" then run to the moulder for another set of bottles and coming back to say,"I'm going to be eight next summer," and so on.....
In inspecting the place the person had a hard time getting any info from a boy.as to his name address..address ,age,or parentage.
The load of bottles which a boy carries at one time is not large or heavy;and there is no heavy lifting to be done.Hence such work in uniformly described by employers as "light and easy".The speed required and the heat atmosphere render continuous trotting most exhausting.
There was no restriction upon night work..
A WONDERFUL PIECE OF EPHEMERA!!
It is a 15 page pamphlet..1903..looks new..though almost 100 years old ..JULY 4 1903.
Put out by "WOMAN'S AMERICAN BAPTIST HOME MISSION SOCIETY.2969 VERNON AVENUE ,CHICAGO
Willing to sell !Will put it on SELL post soon..with picts.Only wish there were some pictures of the boys at work or the glass houses etc.Still gives a lot of insite about what kids went through in bottle making..at least in 1903! JAMIE
It tells how boys as young as 7 years old are being used and how they live..what they do etc.It talks of other States too..and how they work 10 hour days and how it is trying to be made better for the kids to be at least 14!
Tells how the GLASS INDUSTRY has Congress in their hip pocket basically..HA some things never change. Talks about the earnings of the glass blowers depend on the speed of the boys who fetch and carry for them.
"A boy would say something like "My name is Faber" then run to the cooling oven with his load of bottles and returning say.,"I live in a boat by the river ;" then run to the moulder for another set of bottles and coming back to say,"I'm going to be eight next summer," and so on.....
In inspecting the place the person had a hard time getting any info from a boy.as to his name address..address ,age,or parentage.
The load of bottles which a boy carries at one time is not large or heavy;and there is no heavy lifting to be done.Hence such work in uniformly described by employers as "light and easy".The speed required and the heat atmosphere render continuous trotting most exhausting.
There was no restriction upon night work..
A WONDERFUL PIECE OF EPHEMERA!!
It is a 15 page pamphlet..1903..looks new..though almost 100 years old ..JULY 4 1903.
Put out by "WOMAN'S AMERICAN BAPTIST HOME MISSION SOCIETY.2969 VERNON AVENUE ,CHICAGO
Willing to sell !Will put it on SELL post soon..with picts.Only wish there were some pictures of the boys at work or the glass houses etc.Still gives a lot of insite about what kids went through in bottle making..at least in 1903! JAMIE
