Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-01-31 | Page 8 | Child Labor out of the Half-Day School

CHILD LABOR OUT OF THE HALF-DAY SCHOOL Editor Standard: It would seem as though nil people who read the magazines maga-zines and papers would bo alive to the menace and horror of child labor, la-bor, but reading does not produce the lnsting impression of having seen the deadening, horrible process of making children "cogs in the wheels of industry." in-dustry." Ogden is In danger of having child labor thrust upon her, if the people do not wake up. Don't dream for one minute that the law prohibiting children under 14 years of age from working in factories, mines and shops will be effective to prevent It. Capitalists Capi-talists made the law in other states; they will do it in Utah. Children must bo protected from the need of the parent and the greed of the employer. This conviction been forced by the platitudes, and lack of explanation of Supt. Mills and his henchmen in regard to the half-day half-day system now inaugurated. Is the connection between the proposal pro-posal of the American Can Factory company to build a factory In Ogden and the half-day school system, to say nothing of the brush and broom factory, fac-tory, spoken of by Supt. Mills the "nigger in the woodpile?" Are the business men who are interested in cahoots wjth the school board and the superintendent to. supply cheap labor In the bodies of the -school Chil dren of Ogden? Parents, wake up! and strangle this octopus which is reaching out its slimy tentacles to drag your children into the net of child labor. (Signed) KATE S. HILLIARD. nn