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breaker 5

sorting room.

tons of coal, rock and dirt would come down these chutes and men would work here separating the large coal pieces from small. this was a dirty, dangerous job - which was normally reserved for boys until FDR initiated the fair labor standards act in 1938.

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Uploaded on February 25, 2011
Taken on February 16, 2011