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Show CHILD LABOR LAW. Owen It, Lovejoy, general secretary of the national child labor committee, does not fear the outcome when the court of last resort passes upon the act recently declared unconstitutional b' Judge Boyd oi the western judicial district of North Carolina. "Unless the supreme court," declares Mr. Love-j0)') Love-j0)') ' ' goes squarely back on its previous pre-vious decisions, it will not affirm Jndge Boyd 's decision of unconstitutionality. The fact that congress sought to do by indirection what it could not accomplish ac-complish by direct prohibition has nothing noth-ing to do with the. case. Congress has in the past laid a prohibitive tax calculated cal-culated to destroy the article taxed notably in the case of colored oleomargarine, oleomar-garine, state bank uoLes and the manufacture manu-facture of phosphorous matches. Its power to do this has twice been upheld by tho court and I have every confidence confi-dence that the court will do so for the third time in the child labor rase." |