My father was a victim of child labor, pulled out of school at age 14 to help pay off his Polish immigrant parents' mortgage. He became a union organizer. He was blacklisted. he had to change his name. My mother was a union organizer, helping win fair pay and benefits for employees of Camden County College in Blackwood, N.J., without which I might not have gotten to go to Georgetown University. If anyone bashes unions, ask them why they hate workers and don't want them to have good jobs at good wages.
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Sorry mate, child labor was a major issue for Teddy Roosevelt, who called for the abolition of child labor. What he got from congress was the Child Labor Law of 1908. A far cry from the total abolishment of child labor in the US that he sought. In 1938 Franklin Roosevelt after failing to get much else done, put his support behind the Child Labor law of 1938 which the unions needed in order to gain a stranglehold on American Labor.
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