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Show Children Workers Discussed Proof -of-Age Cards Are Available From School Superintendents Annabelle Belknap, assrstant spo-c!al spo-c!al agent of Idaho for the Children's Chil-dren's Bureau, U. S. Dept. of Labor La-bor is in the city conferring with the Franklin, county superintendent superinten-dent of public instruction. She pl..:v. .o see other local officials in rrar.i.i.a and Oneida county who are cooperating in the program pro-gram of aiding employers and minors who wish to obtain certili-ca:es certili-ca:es o. :i:,o in accordance with the child lal.o provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 193S. The minimum age standards of the Federal act apply to all employers em-ployers engaged in producing the goods which are shipped in interstate inter-state commerce. Mrs. Belknap is particularly in-I in-I terested in making the proof-of-age cards available to the huger beet growers who may enploy child labor, la-bor, in accordance with the Sugar Act. Sugar beet growers in Franklin county who will empofy children for work in the beet fields this year will be able to obtain proof pf the age of such employees by sending them to apply for proof of age 'cards from Welland Smith, county superintendent of schools, and Supt. It. F. Campbell. These proof of age cards will serve to protect growers from unintentionally un-intentionally employing children under 14 years of age, the minimum mini-mum age set by the labor provisions pro-visions of the Sugar Act. With our nation at war, it may be necssary as the sugar beet season sea-son progresses to employ in the beet fields young .people who do not oidinarilly help in this v. oil'.. For these, young people as well as for others who year alter year work in the beet fields, it is important impor-tant that the safeguards provided under the labor provisions of the sugar act be observed. Proof of age cards are being issued to growers in order to assist them in complying comply-ing with these labor provisions. The labor provisions of the Sugar Su-gar Act provire What if growers are to be eligible to receive full benefit payments under the Sugar Act, no children under 14 years of age may work in their sugar beet fields, and . children between 14 and 16 years of age may work no more than 8 hours in any one day. With the exceptions of those children chil-dren in the immediate family of a grower wlho owns at least 40 per cent of the sugar beet crop, these provisions apply to every child employed em-ployed or permitted to work on the grower's farm in 'connection with the production, cultivation or harvesting of sugar beets. |