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Show May Meeai DMEdlirM IT Work. Una IBeeit Mefldls Child Labor Regulations Explained Series of Articles Are Prepared For the Clarion ; Will Benefit Employers (Editor's Note: This is the last in a series of three articles on Child Labor appearingg in the Cache Valley Clarion this week and the two previous weeks.) Sugar Beet Program With our nation at war it may be necessary as the sugar-beet season progresses to recruit for work in the beet fields young people who are not ordinarily accustomed to help in this work. For these young people as well as those who year after year work in the beet fields, it is important that the safeguards provided under the labor provisions of the Sugar Act of 1937 be observed. observ-ed. These safeguards against child labor prohibit the employment of minors under 14 years of age and establish a maximum 8-hour day for children between. 14 and 16 years of age. The Industrial Division Di-vision of the Children's Bureau, U. S. Department of Labor, in cooperation coop-eration with the Sugar Division of the TJ. S. Department of Agriculture Agricul-ture have now developed, with the aid of State and local officials, a plan in practically all states growing grow-ing sugar beets whereby proof-of-age cards will be issued upon request re-quest for children who are going to work in the beet fields. These cards are issued on reliable documentary docu-mentary evidence of date of birth. They are signed by the cni:d and the grower therefore " will be able to identify the minor by his signature signa-ture on the card. The purpose of providing such a system is twofold: two-fold: to aid growers in complying with the 14-year minimum age established es-tablished by the act and thereby protect them from penalties provided pro-vided for in case of violation of the child-labor provisions; and to give children under 14 years of age protection pro-tection from employment at too early an age. This provision which regulates child labor in the sugar-beet fields applies to every child employed or permitted to do such work on the grower's farm, whether for gain to such child or to any other per-! son, except "a member of the immediate im-mediate family of a person wno is the legal owner of not less than 40 per cent of the crop at the time such work is performed." In Idaho these proof-of-age cards are issued by county superintendents superinten-dents and local superintendents in the Biigar beet areas. Growers may obtain the names of Issuing officers in their communities through their Counnty Agricultural Conservation committee. It any difficulty dif-ficulty is experienced in obtaining these certificates, please contact C. E. Roberts, special agent, Federal Fed-eral Children's Bureau, State House, Boise, Idaho, or the Industrial Indus-trial Division of the Children's Bureau, Washington, D. C. |