The Bayonne Bulletin
Sunday, July 3, 1853
Another Lowell Girl is Sick!
Another Lowell girl has succumbed to a chronic lung illness due to poor air conditions in The City of Lowell Mills. Jane Patel is a 13 year old from Baltimore, Maryland, who has been working at Lowell mills for 2 years. One of her six roommates, Mary Johnson, says
“I have had the chronic cough as well , and it’s quite a bugger to get over”.
The Lowell girls used to work between 12 and 14 hours a day, but thanks to the Labor Reform and Sarah G Bagley their work days are now only 10 hours . Their job of straightening the cotton threads before they go into the power loom, can be dangerous due to fast moving thread going down words, it could cut their hands. Due to the fragments of cotton in the still air of the textile mills; the air the girl's breath is riddled with cotton that gets to their lungs giving them a chronic cough. During the Industrial Revolution the girls could work in a textile mills which were first created by Samuel Slater from England. Slater's textile machine inventions, mixed with Eli Whitney's invention of interchangeable parts turned to mass production of cotton and textile. However, the Trade Unions was not able to get better conditions for the girls instead they have to his bad treatment, small sleeping quarters, loud sounds, and chronic coughs. Will these girls ever get fair treatment, no one knows.
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