Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-03-09 | Page 20 | Child Labor Laws

h I Child Labor Laws 7 i 1 M A CIVILIZATION TION can always be judged or r measured by its treatment of Us women S and Sand children In the matter of child labor our ou our generation is medieval From sentimental r viewpoints the situation is pathetic and out out- 5 From an economic viewpoint child labor Jabor costs the nation many times more than 7 it pays Long continued hours of toil at the S time time when bones muscles nerves and brain of f a child are in process of development retard the development The ultimate result t to breed S a race of physical and mental weaklings I SS James J. J Davis summed if dt QU all up when L h he wrote There is not a 3 single defense that th t can be urged to this awful system and rand every instinct of humanity prompts its But beyond th the instinct of humanity I S. S S 1 j I ordinary wisdom and prudence of any government government govern govern- ment mern will wm prompt it tp conserve the physical mental and moral fiber of Its Us growing child hild hild hood 1 two Forty out of our forty forty- forty eight ight states r rat at last count o nt had adopted labor child laws Ila Some are are rigid others feeble and indifferently indifferently enforced ed Only two twenty states are arc re reh h humanitarian to require the itlie physical examination of every child applying ng for an employment certificate The United States States' supreme cour court in n 1922 declared d ional the national labor child-labor law as an invasion invasion in in- of a function belonging to the police powers of the st states tes Two remedies are open First uniform labor child laws by all the states and second a a. a constitutional amendment giving congress exclusive power Powe to deal the labor child-labor s1 situation This amendment will inevitably S come com its it's just a z matter of time I