“Throughout the land, child labor is making a comeback as already inadequate laws buckle under pressure of fraudulent appeals to patriotism. Here is what greed and indifference are doing to America’s greatest asset: its children:”
“[The Devious] prefer children – the child worker is cheaper, more agile and willing, has less bargaining power. So the cry goes out for more and more children, ‘to help win the war!'”
“Just how it helps win the war for an Alabama girl of 11 to work in the fields till she collapses and is taken to a hospital with heart trouble has not been made clear.”
