Show Child Labor Called One Df f the Greatest Evils of Modern Times By WILLIAM A GREEN GHEEN President A F of L L The rhe competing products of child wage earners form a n much greater menace to adult workers than do those of convicts States which voted for the prohibition income tax and women suffrage amend amend- amendments amendments ments have ha voted against federal child labor proposals amend I While employers associations and chambers of commerce strange to tos ash s l are arc fighting fede federal al legislation which will take ake children l ren ou out of the I workshops and factories they are at ate the same time fighting against the sale of prison-made prison goods on the open market I Where the sale of made convict goods has been prohibited the chief I reason for or such action was the fact that the labor la or of convicts displaces the labor of the free worker In like manner the labor of the child dis displaces dis- dis places the labor of the adult wage w wage ge earner It is inhuman to take a child its mothers mother's care love Jove and pro pro- protection protection protection and place it by a hazardous piece of machinery to perform manual labor It is criminal to maim and cripple these little ones It is a sin against heaven hea to earn profit from the fatigue of In an undeveloped under under- undernourished undernourished undernourished nourished girl or bo boy |