#SanfordCottonMill. Accident case. #CarlThornburg a 12 year old boy who went to work at 11. A few weeks ago he caught his arm in the "lapper" machine, and broke it in 2 places. He said: "I sure didn't mean to. Was jus goin through the lapper room an fust thing I knew everything went black." The family is hard-up. Father is a paralytic. Here is a real chance for a mill to do a benevolent deed by making some recompense to this crippled boy and his paralytic father. They think it's charity to give a boy work under legal age, but when he is injured they forget that side of it. No suggestion of any kind of recompense has been heard. #JimBrowning said he was 12 years old, but that is doubtful. Has worked 6 months here; gets 50 cents a day. Is in the #2nd grade at school. Location: #Sanford, #NorthCarolina.
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