Hartford County heavy user of child labor report
A Children's Bureau study cites 2278 child workers in tobacco regions including Kentucky, South Carolina, Virginia and Connecticut Valley. Most work long hours in suckering and worming with back and hand ailments, while arsenate sprays and farming tech reduce hand labor slightly. City children mainly pick shade grown tobacco. many start at 7 pm and work until 6 pm with long commutes.
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Virginia
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Massachusetts
Connecticut
Hartford
Children’s Bureau
South Carona
Children toil long hours on tobacco farm under cur ing fires
The report describes extensive child labor at a tobacco farm with children ages 7 to 15 tending curing fires day and night for weeks and performing field work. A 14-year-old and sibling kept fires for a week. a 10-year-old helped at the barn for nearly a month. 12-year-old transplanted and hoed 11 hours daily. siblings aged 9 to 15 worked in fields and barn, while a seven-year-old cousin plowed at dawn, marking troubling labor practices observed by a Women’s Bureau agent.
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Southport school teacher seeks marital freedom in divorce suit
Harriett Langenberg Darrow of Westport, a Pequot school teacher in Southport, sues for divorce from George F. Darrow whom she married September 21, 1914. She seeks custody of their eight year old daughter Math and cites intolerable cruelty. The couple recently settled a $10,000 civil action over shared furniture, silverware, books, and money loaned. Other filings include Mea Allen Ray seeking divorce from Charles P Ray, habitual intemperance and cruelty alleged. Minnie Bjorkgefreen Plant sues Walter T Plant for desertion since 1906. and Alice Scofield Neuman sues William A Neuman for desertion since 1923.
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Southport
George F. Darrow
Math
Darrow
Mea Allen Ray
Charles P Ray
Danbury
Minnie Bjorkgefreen Plant
New York
Walter T. Plant
William A. Neuman
Clearwater
Alice Scofield Neuman
Norwalk
Laborers Strike Near Hartford Halts Building Work
Hartford May 21 laborers strike halts operations across the city affecting hod carriers bricklayers plasterers and allied mechanics on most union construction jobs. About 200 tenders and 200 other workers are involved with six tenement blocks and large buildings at stake. The alliance board will meet to advise a return to work amid uncertain support for the strike.
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Merritt Urges Coal Legislation Be Stopped
Wyant of Pennsylvania and Merritt of Connecticut urged President Coolidge to block regulatory coal legislation. The President said Congress must decide, noting no intervention. They claimed the bill is unnecessary and would create political crises for some lawmakers amid renomination setbacks for Brumm and Carpenter.
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Water Rate Hearing Resumes May 27 Before PUC
Bridgeport Hydraulic Co seeks higher water rates with the Public Utilities Commission. Hearing continued to May 27 at Hartroa due to city counsel injuries from an automobile accident, delaying proceedings.
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