Disclosures of factory life

Complains of bad working conditions and low pay in factories. Complains of bad working conditions and low pay in factories. Printed in two columns divided by single line within border of type ornament sections. At head of text: Copyright secured by M. Young. Text of song in 20 eight-line stanzas with eight-line chorus beginning: Ring, ring the bell. To be sung to the tune: Little Nell of Narragansett Bay. Suggested place of publication because poem names Manchester cotton print works and Manchester Locomotive works. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence; mention of the "pitied Southern slave" suggests it is before the Civil War.