The Child Labor Bulletin, Volumes 5-7The Committee, 1917 - Child labor |
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... meet in our city . Child labor as a social problem is very largely concentrated in the southern tier of states . It has come down to the present genera- tion as a heritage from that stern economic struggle that followed the war . The ...
... meet in our city . Child labor as a social problem is very largely concentrated in the southern tier of states . It has come down to the present genera- tion as a heritage from that stern economic struggle that followed the war . The ...
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... meet an emergency . It is only a year since those represented in this meeting united in a request for an increase of over 100 per cent in the congressional appropriation for the Children's Bureau . Congress is entirely too unconcerned ...
... meet an emergency . It is only a year since those represented in this meeting united in a request for an increase of over 100 per cent in the congressional appropriation for the Children's Bureau . Congress is entirely too unconcerned ...
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... meet our full duty and oppor- tunity we must take our part in the discussion of the newer problems that have presented themselves to the nation and seek through their proper correlation with those older problems of social welfare with ...
... meet our full duty and oppor- tunity we must take our part in the discussion of the newer problems that have presented themselves to the nation and seek through their proper correlation with those older problems of social welfare with ...
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... meet his responsibilities and the necessity of providing for his own family is making a hero out of a plain working man . There is then an ethical gain to the parent whose child can not or may not labor , but the greatest gain to ...
... meet his responsibilities and the necessity of providing for his own family is making a hero out of a plain working man . There is then an ethical gain to the parent whose child can not or may not labor , but the greatest gain to ...
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... meet the cost of this and of the necessary investigations and actual legislative work , has always been a serious drawback . Nine thousand men and women have shared in the effort by joining our membership of $ 2 , $ 5 , $ 25 or $ 100 or ...
... meet the cost of this and of the necessary investigations and actual legislative work , has always been a serious drawback . Nine thousand men and women have shared in the effort by joining our membership of $ 2 , $ 5 , $ 25 or $ 100 or ...
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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?