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The Logical Conclusion of the Lassez i.e., Laissez Faires Policy. Herman Parker, said six years old, and he and others said he had worked in the Cannon Mills, Kannapolis, N.C. Location: Kannapolis, North Carolina.

Noon. Group of doffers and sweepers in Cabarrus Mill, Concord, N.C. These are not all that were working here. Location: Concord, North Carolina.

Noon. Group of Doffers and sweepers in Cabarrus Mill, Concord, N.C. These are not all that were working here. Location: Concord, North Carolina.

The three on the ground work in the Cannon Mills, Concord, N.C. The boy "Otie Honeycott" (his mother could not spell his name) said he had been doffing two years in the Cannon Mill. Location: Concord, North Carolina.

Joseph Weiss, 11 yrs. Old. Sells until 11 P.M. on Saturdays. Then the Sunday papers come over, and another "crew" comes on. See #3116, 3117. Taken at 11 P.M. Location: Newark, New Jersey.

In doorway is Mary Deschene, 11 years old. Helper in Glenallen Mill. Location: Winchendon, Massachusetts.

Erenne La Prise, a doffer, apparently 13 years old, doffing at his machine in Spring Village Mill. Said he had been working a year and a half. Location: Winchendon, Massachusetts.

Erenne La Prise, on left, apparently 13 years old, a doffer at Spring Village Mill, said he had been working a year and a half. Als de Gauthier, apparently under 14 (next Erenne) also a doffer at Spring Village Mill. Location: Winchendon, Massachusetts.

Group fo i.e., of workers going to work at 6:45 A.M. In Spring Village Mill. In this group are Mamie La Barge, Elizabeth and Lumina Demarais, Als de Gauthier, Erena La Prise (See previous labels for data.) Location: Winchendon, Massachusetts.

Group of workers going to work at 6:45 A.M. In Spring Village Mill. In this group are Mamie La Barge, Elizabeth and Lumina Demarais, Als de Gauthier, Erena La Prise (See previous labels for data.). Location: Winchendon, Massachusetts.

Illiterate 19-year-old sister of B. Joseph. Location: Winchendon, Massachusetts.

Some of Batise's illiterate neighbors. Location: Winchendon, Massachusetts.

Clerinda Norrin, Said 11 years old and helps sister spin in Glenallen Mill. Location: Winchendon, Massachusetts.

Clerinda Norrin, said 11 years old and helps sister spin in Glenallen Mill. Winchendon, Mass. September 3, 1911. Richard K. Conant, Witness. Location: Winchendon, Massachusetts.

Annie Dugas, spinner at machine on top floor of Glenallen Mill. Location: Winchendon, Massachusetts.

Group of Workers in Glenallen Mill, including Adrienne Pagnette, Annie Dugas, Francis Pagnette, Anatole Gernon, apparently 11 or 12 years old, doffs on top floor spinning room of the above mill. Speaks no English. Location: Winchendon, Massachusetts.

Sardine canneries at Eastport, Maine. Location: Eastport, Maine.

Group of workers at Seacoast Canning Co., Factory #4, Eastport, Me. Location: Eastport, Maine.

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"I cut my finger nearly off, cutting sardines the other day." Seven year old Byron. (See photo of family, #2453, and label.) Location: Eastport, Maine.

Group of workers in a canning factory. Location: Eastport, Maine.

Hiram Pulk, 9 years old, cuts some in Seacoast Canning Co., Factory #1. "I aint very fast--only about five boxes a day. They pay five cents a box." Location: Eastport, Maine.

Group of cutters, all of them working, factory #2. One of them, not the youngest, is Harold Whalen, 14 Tappen Ave. Makes $1.00 a day. Location: Eastport, Maine.

Group of young cutters, Seacoast Canning Co., Factory #2, waiting for more fish. They all work, but they waste a great deal of time as the adults do also, waiting for fish to arrive. Location: Eastport, Maine.

Fulsom McCutcheon, 11 years old, has been working at the covering machines in Eastport canning factory, also cutting some. In the background is a typical sardine factory. Location: Eastport, Maine.