Show I i HOMEWORK HOME VORK A VICIOUS CIRCLE The child labor Ja law in New ew York prevents niL any child hiM under tinder 14 1 years of ofa a ago o from Crom hein being ed in an any facton factory fac fac- tory ton mercantile establishment restaurant ra rant t and other places of business but no law lat reaches tho the home working child save the the compulsory education law lawand lawand law law- and md that has jurisdiction over o his school day ra only He Ito la may work ork from C 13 in inthe th the tho morning until school hool opens and aud from front 3 on to midnight ht with no respite every ery sc school ool day clay n and all au al day a long on as asman man many days day a week as he can conveniently iema remain n out of or school chool without being re regarded as a truant trant and there is no law to stop him I. I There Thee are arc two points point upon which the public needs to act in in relation relton to tot t tenement work says Sas Florence Forence KeJI Kelley secretary of the National Consumers' Consumers league ue in in the thc Survey Wo We Vo never neer can kno know the extent of cut such finch luch work nork and for want of knowledge we WP cannot safe safeguard uart either the children children chil chil- dren of the tenements or tho the buyers of the goods we WE cannot keep the horne home homework work system and e escape caJe its is inevitable consequences anti and ant accompaniments The time is iM for tho the ripe sweeping sv prohibition of tho the abominable system In the interest of if the children and nd of the public health it should be abolished abol abol- bv by law without further waste wate of time It I spreads di disease broadcast t. t It I robs children of their childhood and ant their school life It I promotes con congestion es tion ion of population by keeping young homo honi workers within walking walking- distance of the tho factory It I encourages encourage manufacturers tuners to sta stay in eon congested ested districts in iii order to be 11 near tho the cheap home worker work Work- er ers ert A vicious idom circle injurious to everyone every every- one involved in it it Every F Fer er effort Tort to re restrict restrict or r regulate I home hOlo work has ended in failure in this country and anul in Europe The rue only ra I thing left lef to do is is to abol abolish sh it I outright exactly as co COWS cowe goats chickens cHck chick ens geese and ami pigs havo have been heen banished I from tho the tenements I |