Show WILL arkid five hour day Is asked workers worker S in massachusetts to lead country again if measure pending in the legislature Is passed other states aid reform I 1 new york will again lerm lead the country in one part of its ita child labor laws according to the national child labor committee if the bill to reduce the hours of work for all under sixteen years becomes law massachusetts now has a ten hour day for workers under sixteen which it Is proposed to reduce at one step to a five hour day with the requirement qui rement that all child workers under sixteen sha shall ll 11 attend H n part time almo day school other states meanwhile are wondering it if they can establish the eight hour day and definite nite campaigns for this end aro are on in arkansas california coln la new hampshire pennsylvania texas west virginia und and c lv where 1 tho the committee points out tha that the bills which have already been introduced in pennsylvania delaware and texas all include the regulation of street trades provided in tho the uniform child labor law this allow allott no newsboy under twelve years and no other street trader under tinder fourteen it also forbids all girls to engage in these occupations before they are sixteen years old new york under the recommendation of the state factory investigating commission lesion Is considering bills not I 1 only to prohibit child labor in can ferfes and tenements but to reorganize the factory inspection department as an industrial commission with a greatly increased staff of inspectors spec tors delaware indiana missouri north carolina and others are alzo also talking of measures to make more efficient their departments of inspection in many states r linimum wage boards pensions for widowed mothers prohibition of night work and methods of determining ago of children seeking employment are under discussion new hampshire and some of the fouth bouthern ou thern brn states will probably raise tho the ago limit for working children from twelve to fourteen years and a i nd it Is hoped that a child labor law for territories will bo be presented to congress A compulsory school attendance law has beer introduced la in the north carolina and bills are t aked of in south carolina tennes see be a and texas |