The Child Labor Bulletin, Volumes 5-7The Committee, 1917 - Child labor |
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... cause which is close to the hearts of most of us- the safeguarding of the American child . You are pledged to the belief that no child should be released upon society as an economic factor until that child has received the best ...
... cause which is close to the hearts of most of us- the safeguarding of the American child . You are pledged to the belief that no child should be released upon society as an economic factor until that child has received the best ...
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... cause in the South is the fact that compulsory education has not gone along with child labor laws , and the ... causes them to put their children to work . Your exhibit answers that . To relieve their poverty by crippling the mental ...
... cause in the South is the fact that compulsory education has not gone along with child labor laws , and the ... causes them to put their children to work . Your exhibit answers that . To relieve their poverty by crippling the mental ...
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... cause for expenditure . Society as a whole suffers from the wrong viewpoint of all three . Since it is evident that the child can not cope with them alone , the necessity of organizations like the one we represent today to befriend the ...
... cause for expenditure . Society as a whole suffers from the wrong viewpoint of all three . Since it is evident that the child can not cope with them alone , the necessity of organizations like the one we represent today to befriend the ...
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... caused great suffering among those who are refused employment and has forced some into immoral lives . There is no word in the Keating bill that makes it apply to work done in New York tenement houses although Congressman Webb asked ...
... caused great suffering among those who are refused employment and has forced some into immoral lives . There is no word in the Keating bill that makes it apply to work done in New York tenement houses although Congressman Webb asked ...
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... cause of child labor legislation , but it is our earnest desire to be instrumental in bringing it about . Organized Labor confesses its utter lack of knowledge concerning the constitutional power of the national Congress . We frankly ...
... cause of child labor legislation , but it is our earnest desire to be instrumental in bringing it about . Organized Labor confesses its utter lack of knowledge concerning the constitutional power of the national Congress . We frankly ...
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Page 71 - First, If any portion of the fund invested as provided by the foregoing section, or any portion of the interest thereon, shall, by any action or contingency, be diminished or lost, it shall be replaced by the State to which it belongs, so that the capital of the fund shall remain forever undiminished...
Page 97 - Columbia shall present satisfactory evidence of any such violation, to cause appropriate proceedings to be commenced and prosecuted in the proper courts of the United States, without delay, for the enforcement of the penalties as in such case herein provided. SEC. 6. That the term "drug...
Page 92 - Under the Constitution such commerce belongs not to the states but to Congress to regulate. It may carry out its views of public policy whatever indirect effect they may have upon the activities of the states.
Page 33 - Territory shall be twenty-five thousand dollars to be applied only to instruction in agriculture, the mechanic arts, the English language and the various branches of mathematical, physical, natural and economic science, with special reference to their applications in the industries of life, and to the facilities for such instruction...
Page 92 - The act does not meddle with anything belonging to the States. They may regulate their internal affairs and their domestic commerce as they like. But when they seek to send their products across the State line they are no longer within their rights. If there were no Constitution and no Congress, their power to cross the line would depend upon their neighbors. Under the Constitution such commerce belongs not to the States but to Congress to regulate. It may carry out its views of public policy whatever...
Page 63 - ... like that of the heads of the other Executive Departments; and section one hundred and fiftyeight of the Revised Statutes is hereby amended to include such Department, and the provisions of title four of the Revised Statutes, including all amendments thereto, are hereby made applicable to said Department.
Page 90 - The notion that prohibition is any less prohibition when applied to things now thought evil I do not understand. But if there is any matter upon which civilized countries have agreed, — far more unanimously than they have with regard to intoxicants and some other matters over which this country is now emotionall}7 aroused, — it is the evil of premature and excessive child labor.
Page 146 - For it seems that the right of the individual to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is not limited, as we had earlier supposed, by his politics and his religion.
Page 91 - It would not be argued to-day that the power to regulate does not include the power to prohibit. Regulation means the prohibition of something, and when interstate commerce is the matter to be regulated I cannot doubt that the regulation may prohibit any part of such commerce that Congress sees fit to forbid.
Page 281 - ... years have been employed or permitted to work more than eight hours in any day, or more than six days in any week, or after the hour of 7 o'clock PM or before the hour of 6 o'clock AM?