Accident to Young Cotton Mill Worker,Giles Edmund Newsom,Sanders Spinning Mill

Title: [Accident to young cotton mill worker. Giles Edmund Newsom (Photo October 23rd, 1912), while working in Sanders Spinning Mill, Bessemer City, N.C., August 21st, 1912, a piece of the machine fell on to his foot mashing his toe. This caused him to fall on to a spinning machine and his hand went into unprotected gearing, crushing and tearing out two fingers. He told the Attorney he was 11 years old when it happened. His parents are now trying to make him 13 years old. The school census taken at the time of the accident makes him12 years (parents' statement) and school records say the same. His school teacher thinks that he is 12. His brother (photo 3071) is not yet 11 years old. Both of the boys worked in the mill several months before the accident. His father, (R.L. Newsom) tried to compromise with the Company when he found the boy would receive money and not the parents. The mother tried to blame the boys for getting jobs on their own hook, but she let them work several months. The aunt said 'Now he's jes got to where he could be of some help to his ma an' then this happens and he can't never work no more like he oughter.']. Location: [Bessemer, North Carolina].
Creator(s): Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
Date Created/Published: [1912 October 23]
Notes:
Attribution to Hine based on provenance.
In album: Mills.
Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 3070.
Hine no. 3071.
In phrase 'when he found the boy,' the word boy is underlined on the caption card.
Subjects:
Boys.
Textile mill workers.
Wounds & injuries.
Accidents.
United States--North Carolina--Bessemer.
Photographic prints.
Bookmark /ncl2004003658/PP/
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