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Show CIO LUBOR BILL DISCUSSED AT CLUB Justice of the Peace L. R. Martineau, Jr., Is Principal Princi-pal Speaker. Support of the bill now pending before be-fore congress which would permit states to prohibit tbs importation of goods made by child labor was urged at a meeting of Salt Lake members of the nationaj child labor committee at the Ladies ' Literary club last night. Justice Jus-tice of the Peace Lyman B. ifartineau, Jr., as the principal speaker of the evening, and pointed out the advantascs that would come to Utah by the passage pas-sage of the bill. Utah has little child labor. Judge Martineau Mar-tineau Bs.id. but at the tame time the state at present could not prevent cheaply made child labor goods from other states coming here in competition with Utah-made goods. If the bill pending before congress passes, he said, the state could stop the importation of such goods, thereby dealing a blow to child labor employers and also preventing prevent-ing such goods from coming in competition competi-tion with Utah-made products that were not made under child Jjibor ouudition'" Another point emphasized hv .lu.lro JMnrtiiieau was the need of imvKtiontmn ot child labor condition on the I'-ivm A large percentage of Ihe .-luld ;,' in the United States totlnv. he paid wis employed on the farm. Little attention had been paid to this problem, he said and as a result farm children often' hud' no opportunity to get the education thov should receive. This problem, he said, was as vital lo Utah as to any other state. lln noted the fact that the beet crop particnloi 1' . was harvested with Ihe extensive ht of child labor, so extensive thm the schools were often closed during Ihe five or six weeks the crop was being har vested. lie expressed the belief that conditions in this field should come in for a thorough invest igai ion. Mrs. Elizabeth Jf. Cohen outlined the work that had been done, bv the 1111 tional child labor committee and urevd i that the citizens of SjH Lake give this work more active support. She poinled to the fact that Salt Lake had onlv fprty members on this committee, while Colorado Springs, with a much smaller population, had 120 members. The meeting was held under the auspices of the City Federation of Women's Clubs. Mrs.' TV. '. Adams, president of the federation, presided at the meeting. |