43 68TH CONGRESS) HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES [DOCUMENT No. 497 PROPOSED CHILD LABOR AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES HEARINGS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY SIXTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION FEBRUARY 7, 15, 16, 27, 28, AND 29, 1924 Serial 16 DECEMBER 18, 1924.-Ordered to be printed WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1924 HOUSE RESOLUTION 371 Resolved, That the hearing held before the Committee on the Judiciary, Sixty-eighth Congress, first session, on the proposed child labor amendments to the Constitution of the United States be printed as a House document, and that 2,000 additional copies be printed for the use of the House Committee on the Judiciary. Passed the House of Representatives December 18, 1924. HARRY J. HUNT, Chief Bill Clerk, House of Representatives. п HD 6243 45 A 2 1924 CONTENTS Hon. Louis A. Frothingham, Member of Congress from Massa- Hon. Walter F. Lineberger, Member of Congress from California.... Hon. Frederick W. Dallinger, Member of Congress from Massa- Hon. John Jacob Rogers, Member of Congress from Massachusetts-- Hon. William P. Connery, jr., Member of Congress from Massa- Hon. Henry Allen Cooper, Member of Congress from Wisconsin. Miss Grace Abbott, chief Children's Bureau, Department of Labor__ 30, 58, 261 Mr. Edgar Wallace, of the American Federation of Labor, Washing- Miss Mary Stewart, chairman, women's committee for a child- Hon. Peter F. Tague, Member of Congress from Massachusetts___ Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, vice chairman national executive com- mittee of the Republican Party, Washington, D. C‒‒‒‒‒‒ Miss Agnes G. Regan, executive secretary National Council of Catho- lic Women, Washington, D. C....... Mr. E. O. Watson, secretary Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, Washington, D. C‒‒‒‒‒ Mr. Owen R. Lovejoy, executive secretary National Child Labor Mr. George L. Cooley, Cuyahoga County, Ohio---. Dr. W. H. Walker, representing the American Farm Bureau Federa- Memorandum submitted by Mrs. Emily Newell Blair, vice chairman Austen G. Fox, Esq., New York City__. Mr. Ira Jewell Williams, Philadelphia, Pa_- Mr. Willis R. Jones, attorney, Baltimore, Md___ Mrs. Ruben Ross Holloway, representing the Women's Constitutional Mr. Simon Miller, Philadelphia, Pa----- Mr. David Clark, editor of the Southern Textile Bulletin, Charlotte, 70 Mrs. Kate B. Johnson, chairman State Child Welfare Commission 220, 251 Dr. James A. Hayne, executive officer South Carolina Board of Health, as quoted in "A study of the cotton industry of North III Text of first Federal child labor law and the Federal child labor tax law and of the Supreme Court decision declaring these laws unconstitu- Gibbs, Mrs. Rufus M., Federation of Democratic Women_ 150 Hayne, Dr. James A., statement of___ 250 Holloway, Mrs. R. R., Women's Constitutional League of Maryland_ 106 220, 351 Jones, Mr. Willis R., attorney, Baltimore, Md_. 98 Kilbreth, Miss Mary G., Woman Patriot Publishing Co-- 158 Lovejoy, Owen R., executive secretary National Child Labor Committee, Regan, Miss Agnes G., executive secretary National Council of Cath- 71 PROPOSED CHILD LABOR AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY, The committee met at 10 o'clock a. m., George S. Graham (chairman) presiding, The CHAIRMAN. This is a hearing on House Joint Resolution 66, giving Congress the power to prohibit the labor of persons under the age of 18 years and to prescribe the conditions of such labor, and on all similar resolutions now pending before the committee. If there is no objection, all of the resolutions on this subject will be printed as an appendix hereto. Mr. Frothingham, you want to go away, so we will hear you first. STATEMENT OF HON. LOUIS A. FROTHINGHAM, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM MASSACHUSETTS Mr. FROTHINGHAM. Unfortunately, I have a meeting of my committee at 10 o'clock. There are numerous others here to go into this subject in detail; so if it will not inconvenience you, I will say a few words only. All these measures have the same object in view; they differ somewhat in wording. The idea is to enable Congress to have authority through a constitutional amendment to get uniform legislation. Other methods have been tried without success. As a rule I do not 1 |