The Child Labor Bulletin, Volumes 5-7The Committee, 1917 - Child labor |
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... months in a mill ; a child of 11 who has been working for two years , half of the time at night during the last two months ; and plenty of 12 - year - olds some of whom have been working two , three and four years in the mills of North ...
... months in a mill ; a child of 11 who has been working for two years , half of the time at night during the last two months ; and plenty of 12 - year - olds some of whom have been working two , three and four years in the mills of North ...
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... months would amount to nothing compared to the cost of restraining , reforming , punishing , and remaking the child who has been denied . his first right . Granted the right to be well born , the second right of childhood is the right ...
... months would amount to nothing compared to the cost of restraining , reforming , punishing , and remaking the child who has been denied . his first right . Granted the right to be well born , the second right of childhood is the right ...
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... months I have visited some thirty cotton mills . These vary all the way from very good to very poor , so the result represents very well the average condition of our mills . Since there are over ten times this many mills in North ...
... months I have visited some thirty cotton mills . These vary all the way from very good to very poor , so the result represents very well the average condition of our mills . Since there are over ten times this many mills in North ...
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... months , but as the school system is organized on the district plan the local truant officer does not always enforce the law because he would be required to prosecute his own friends and immediate neighbors . The remedy seems to lie in ...
... months , but as the school system is organized on the district plan the local truant officer does not always enforce the law because he would be required to prosecute his own friends and immediate neighbors . The remedy seems to lie in ...
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... months , took it back . But the neighbor , finding it was cracked , sued the borrower for the value of the skillet . The borrower testified before the magistrate first , that she had never borrowed the skillet ; second , that it was ...
... months , took it back . But the neighbor , finding it was cracked , sued the borrower for the value of the skillet . The borrower testified before the magistrate first , that she had never borrowed the skillet ; second , that it was ...
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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?