http://anachro-anarcho.blogspot.com/2012/09/mother-jones-or-i-dont-care-how.html

Mother Jones: Or, I Don’t Care How Hardcore Your Grandma is, the Grandma of Organized Labor Can Beat Up Your Grandma. And Also Your Boss.

One of Mother Jone’s other big causes was ending child labor. She disapproved of systems that saw kids as young as ten losing fingers, limbs, or their lives to the machinery in textile mills. For some reason. Many of these children had single mothers, and that their fathers had been killed or rendered unable to work in the mines or factories, leaving the family no choice but to send the kids off to work. So it was a cycle of death, destruction and exploitation. You know, kinda like capitalism.

In 1903, she was in Kensington, Pennsylvania, where a huge number of children were working in the mills, and where seventy-five thousand workers, ten thousand of them children, were on strike. After meeting with a lot of stunted, mutilated mill children, Mother Jones asked why the papers didn’t publicized the issue of child labor. She was told that the millowners had stock in the newspapers. “Well,” Mother Jones replied, “I’ve got stock in these little children, and I’ll arrange a little publicity.”

And then she wrote a strongly-worded letter!

Just kidding, then she organized an army of child workers that went on a multi-state march and made President Teddy Roosevelt run and hide in the woods. No really, you know, Teddy Roosevelt, the guy who manifested his destiny all over the place, spat out assassins’ bullets, and arm-wrestled grizzly bears to death for fun, literally ran away and hid in the woods when he heard Mother Jones and a bunch of small kids were coming to talk to him.

Kind of reminded me of the kids in this video. We have come a long way but still have some room for improvement on child labor laws.

via: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002617732

Wonder if Romney includes child labor laws as "job killing regulations?"