Show V CHILD LABOR AND I CONSTITUTION Appealing to The Standard E Bc Eammer ammer the western press commit committee tee working for tor the constitutional amendment t against child labor sends this letter i Child labor lIbor does not mean sell sellIng selling sellIng Ing ne newspapers papers after ader school nor at a n few tew hours bours on holidays s sIt It means toiling long hours at atma machines at-machines ma chines In factories chasing Blaming Ing In fields e at low wages It means also aso no time for tor school play or healthy growth groath tb Fiery ls cry ery state now floss has full power to make Its own laws lasts child labor There are good la laas and bad ones once and five states aith Ith no restrictions at all All en need protection but the children of those III the a states need it most of all I The 19 1920 0 census said that 1 children are working But Dut thIs counts only anI those from ten len to Sf- Sf nf fifteen teen years ears old Thousands of at o chil children dren less than Ihan ten years ears old aro at stork ark Children less than six years ears old working I all day da long are die Cred co from time to time by In- In Investigators In Investigators of the tho national child Ia- Ia la Ill labor bor bar committee At the same time lime a while hue more than a 1 million children are aro Work working workIng I ing far tar more than a million soon men and women are unemployed ed Set Setting ting the children tree free will be good for the children but It will also gise ghe jobs to men and wo women en aho ho hoare are now Idle Even the people is 1 who ho Ih li e In Instates Instates states stales which ha base haie e good laws against child labor and which en enforce enforce enforce force the laws ls they base ha caie use goods produced In all the states So all people in all the states are using artIcles produced In part parl b by child labor All AH All honor to the tho states stales I a have set a high standard in protect protecting I ing lag their children from child labor It is time now for tor the nation to act and to protect all he children Some has ha e c pretended to express fear thit t If It congress Is gh glien gisen en the power to prohibit child labor the I national s Bill III do the rid ridiculous ridiculous thing of ot prohibiting es e eory e erg ory I child under 18 IS performing any kind of useful work stork Our legislators and es in congress I mu must t be bo gh ghen gisen en credit tor for more ala wis wisdom Is dom dam than that Any law passed I undoubtedly would be bo within the bounds of o reasonable regulation of child labor I The real purpose is to reach large concerns which abich work ark children long hours under arable con can conditions conditions |