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Arthur Chalifoux, Page Two

From the North Adams Transcript, December 30, 1911:

On Monday, the first day of the New Year, the new 54 hour law for women and children in factories will go into effect, and the schedules in the mills and factories are today being adapted to new conditions. There is no uniformity in the method of cutting off two hours from the present schedule. Each establishment has worked out its own ideas.

"This law operates so that the decrease in working hours is accompanied by a corresponding decrease in pay. Those who are working by the hour lose two hours' pay. Those who are working on piece work two hours less a week than they have been doing consequently earn less," said a prominent mill owner this afternoon.

At Arnold Print Works, the hours for women and minors have been arranged from 7 to 12, and 1 to 6, five days a week, and from 7 to 11 on Saturdays. At the Windsor Print Works, the Blackinton mill, the Clark Biscuit factory, the Eclipse Mill and the Hoosac Worsted mill, each day of the week is to be made proportionately shorter.

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319 Beaver St, second apt. from left (2009), where Arthur lived from about 1901 to 1910.

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3 Rand St, now 45 Rand St (2009), where Arthur was living when Lewis Hine took his picture in 1911.

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Beaver Mill (2009) where Thomas Chalifoux worked.

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Looking west at Eclipse Mill, circa 1910.

Interview with Arthur's grandson

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