Show STRIKING GAINS IN CHILD LAGOR LAWS off year for legislation but children not neglected EDUCATION LAWS IN SOUTH A w liew compilation of child labor laws lau which will hill be issued shortly by tho the national child labor committee the legislation enacted lit hi 1911 1 although this last year oar was waa a tion tiry one for social ocial s welfare legisla cioll the national child labor com coin all tee feels that there were ero some striking gains in child labor laws two states which have hitherto bilLer to defied nil all efforts to raise their standards pennsylvania aud and alabama have bare yielded to tile pressure pleasure of public opinion Ala alabama liania has ft a fourteen your year limit for nil painful gainful occupations to go into breet lu in september instead of tier former twelve year tear limit for factories only A sixteen year limit for occupations occupation Is included in tile hie 1 law iw its well as it a twelve year car limit for boys bos and an 1111 eighteen year limit for gli alili I tn lit street work the stiling feature of ala ilias s new ln law la Is the continuation school ekaut cl ei wc aut which nt illi requires children of ct fourteen mid and fifteen who nho are resu regu 14 anil ply d to attend continuation ello olst eight hours it week other im jdant Jt ant features are aie the twenty one cir limit for night firlit mo mengers phys ghys laid III ex find and the completion of the sixth grade before it work ort permit can lie be secured and the tit regular I 1 on of lipet work michigan lind had nil an unusual experience tin the ago at limit for olimon gainful occupations cupat ions was at ralso d from fro in fourteen to AT THE REQUEST OP anc 1 NIIlO yr jig the bill was vas drafted and alie P campaign directed by them lit in addition to tilt the age limit it rn rieb le tile gande which a child must complete before a york bermit can be seen sec ineil red from aiom the fourth to the sixth grade compulsory education law laws 3 were passed tn by three southern states the Ilor rinilda lda and south carolina laws are local option only but the texas law li IR state wide california and lown iowa strengthened their inas by 17 including provisions for or the atlon of street work and the night service in addition to tile the street work clause iowa passed nn an eight hour day for children undo under sixteen kit teen and strengthened her work penult provis provisions lons A written statement from the employer that he be in tends to employ the child Is now ilow no cessar before a child can secure a work ork permit A 1 similar claib arns it incorporated leo rp orated tills this year tit in the island law arid a street work pro vision enacted establishing a twelve limit for boys anti and a sixteen year limit for tn selling news va or merchandise nevada created the domce of labor commissioner to enforce the child labor label I 1 it wait and wyoming enacted n nine little hour al 31 lay for foi children under tinder fourteen in all gall irtI in fact thore there wits on n gain lit in arery state lint but one of those which v holcli passed laws las tilt year air affecting alldren hll dren fennessee renn essee weakened its law li from practically inic all provisions of the law but an n attempt to repeal the lie Arkan arkansas sils lift law wait waa defeated de so that on oil the whole tile lie notional child labor committee fola feels that tile child labor legislation of 1115 represents steady blead progress pi ogress |