A 1904 magazine article by Peter Roberts reporting on child labor in eastern Pennsylvania factories, especially silk-throwing, hosiery, and other textile mills. It describes evasion of the age-13 minimum through false certificates, weak enforcement by politically influenced factory inspectors, overtime of 60 to 75 hours a week, and night work for girls in silk mills in the anthracite coal towns. It ends by arguing for a law that would bar boys under 16 and girls under 18 from working between 7 p.m. and 6 a.m.