Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-07-08 | Page 4 | Cheering Too Soon

CHEERING TOO SOON WHEN the textile code was as publicized i V Y and note made macic that it provided for doing doing doing do do- ing away with child labor the nation cheered with a right good will But it was like the scattered applause that sometimes bursts out between the largo and the rondo raising ned with the temperament of the symphony conductor We cheered too soon There h have ve been about children employed employed employed em em- in the textile mills mills kids kids who ought t to have been in school playing duck on a rock and going to the shows to see Mickey Mouse ouse In a nation that fought a war to free black slaves we ought ough to be ashamed that we have permitted this child slavery to go on But the cens census s figures show that there are arc children between the ages of fiO 10 and 15 who are gainfully employed That leaves yet to tobe be De taken care tare of by other trade codes and othel otherwise Wise Child labor freed under the industrial recovery recovery re rc- re- re covery act is protected only for forthe the duration of of- th the emergency After that unless we p pass ss' ss the child labor amendment to the federal constitution con eon anything can happen If the jobs held by children were held by their kinsfolk or ot others upon whom they naturally should shoula depend for their support the necessity that hat forces such infants to sell their future for a pittance would disappear