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Show CHILD LABOR ISSUE -UNDER DlSdll Keep Those of Tender Years Out of Factories, Is Sentiment of Reformers. CHICAGO. Jan. 21. "Keep the child out of tho factory." Tliia was Ihc consensus of sentiment at Ihc opcniiitr today of the fifth annual an-nual National Child jTjiibnr conference. Two hindrances lo child labor reform wero pointed out by General Secrolary Owen K. Lovo.ioy of Now York. These were the influx of foreign races, and tho lack of harmony between the different dif-ferent stato regulations on this sub- .ict. Dr. A. J. McKohvay of Atlanta, secretary sec-retary of thu southern states, spoke on "The Child and the Law." He condemned con-demned evasion and violation of the child labor laws. "When wo come to. consider the enforcement en-forcement of tho lav.' by the authorities authori-ties or its observance b.y those affected af-fected wo may as well begin with the frank admission tli.it tlicro is almost no enforcement, and that violations, even of the poorost law wo have, aro open and shameless and innumerable," said tho speaker. "It is no longer an open question in this nation that law -is needed for the protection of the children chil-dren against tho exploiters of their labor. la-bor. Jt is, perhaps, a disgraeo lo our civilization Jliat there is such need, but it would bo a worse disgrace if tho fads were not recognized and tlie need mot." Secretary Love-joy declared that it was not alone in inclosed places t.hat children wero overworked. In the berry fields of New Jersey, in tho vegetable gardens of Delaware and Colorado, Col-orado, and in the tobacco fields of Connecticut, Con-necticut, Kentucky, Virginia and Pennsylvania, Penn-sylvania, he declared children were om-ploycd om-ploycd twelve hours a day. |