The Child Labor Bulletin, Volumes 5-7The Committee, 1917 - Child labor |
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... physical vitality of the nation , which must be one of the great assets of any country when called on to 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 ...
... physical vitality of the nation , which must be one of the great assets of any country when called on to 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 ...
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... physical strength . We may therefore very properly urge our representatives in Congress when they consider any plans ... physically and industrially we must expect our government to do more than has been done in the past to help us ...
... physical strength . We may therefore very properly urge our representatives in Congress when they consider any plans ... physically and industrially we must expect our government to do more than has been done in the past to help us ...
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... physical and moral lives of their children is relieving it at a great expense to them and to society . It would save money for the state or federal government to pay those parents the wages the children would get for their work . Still ...
... physical and moral lives of their children is relieving it at a great expense to them and to society . It would save money for the state or federal government to pay those parents the wages the children would get for their work . Still ...
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... physical nature of man recognizes ; the struggle for the life of another is the super- strength of womanhood . The sacrifice of self for the good of the human child elevates both parents above the brute creation . But so keen is the ...
... physical nature of man recognizes ; the struggle for the life of another is the super- strength of womanhood . The sacrifice of self for the good of the human child elevates both parents above the brute creation . But so keen is the ...
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... physical test . Talk of preparedness ! The movement to take children out of industry at an early age is the most important step in national preparedness ! Mr. Britt laid great emphasis last night on the manner in which he defended not ...
... physical test . Talk of preparedness ! The movement to take children out of industry at an early age is the most important step in national preparedness ! Mr. Britt laid great emphasis last night on the manner in which he defended not ...
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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?