[Borax Queen]

The same sort of thing happened half a century earlier, when the textile industry predicted disaster if child labor were ended. At a Senate hearing in 1916, one mill owner said that limiting child labor would “stop my machines”; another said “investors would never receive another dividend”; while a third said that ending child labor would “paralyze the country.”

And before that it had something to do with picking cotton! Pack'em up send'em home.

BTTT!

[nicmarlo]

....And before that it had something to do with picking cotton! Pack'em up send'em home.

another BTTT!