Employees of the Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Company at Bessie Mine in Jefferson County in 1910. Child laborers were common in coal mines in the early twentieth century and worked 12-14 hour days.
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Employees of the Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Company at Bessie Mine in Jefferson County in 1910. Child laborers were common in coal mines in the early twentieth century and worked 12-14 hour days.