Show UTAH TO T ly 0 biall liast A L T AT 21 fl i child labor lab or proposal Is due to arouse active debate in legislature while the utah legislature was in a hurry to pass the womans comans suffrage amendment to the federal constitution desiring to take a place of honor at the head of the list of states elates it will from present prospects be in no such haste to pass a resolution ratifying y the amendment now before the con coun n 1 try this amendment would give 6 to congress the power to fo pass national legislation dealing with the child labor problem several at least of the utah legis gators now have the opinion that the child labor amendment is purely and simply a move on the part of organized labor to protect its own interests they argue that the proposal under the guise of 0 the most altruistic and advanced ideals of social welfare is essentially selfish to the cors core it is s asserted that the utah associated industries Is already active lc fr its opposition to the ratification of ti the le amendment so also it is claimed are the farm bureau interests in thi i state the opposition on the part oi of the farmers is said to be twofold at ar least in the first place they tear fear to give congress the power to enact legislation which would interfere with the farm boy working during holidays on the farm in the second place they have information that the sugar beet fields of the intermountain intel mountain country t ry are being held before th the e public in the east a as horrible examples of 0 the atrocities of child babor labor lust just as the cotton mills of the tha south are alc plc aured in the west in a light which would seem to make the amendment very desirable utah farmers argue that the compulsory education laws of utah re e quiring attendance at school up to toha ahe age of 18 years combined with the conditions which have made this state a 1 der ined 1 proud of the greatest crop all serve to make congressional interference unnecessary in utah and would act the same in other states the proposed amendment also will wil have to meet the opposition of f a growing fear that the federal government is assuming powers over 0 er the individual liberty and freedom which rightly belong to the state it is argued that the national government is going far afield in its paternalistic tendencies this does not mean that the proposed amendment w wil il not have its friends in the utah legislature proponents of the ratification of the amendment especially among powerful organizations an and welford we fore workers are already busy filst as ar an its opponents tribune |