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Show EASIER TO BREAK. When the federal child labor law was pendinc In congress the iotton mill owners of North Carolina opposed It on Ibe. ground that it was an in-1 frlngement of the state's rights. They promised that North Carolina would enact modern child labor laws and would see that they were fa,iihful-ly fa,iihful-ly enforced. North Carolina did enact a child labor la-bor law. And now the North Carolina child welfare commission issues its first report re-port on how that law has been obeyed. "There have been 7G0 violations of the state child labor law during the past seventeen months," says the report. re-port. Ik that why- those North Carolina mill owners were such ardent advocates advo-cates of state rights? Because a state law Is more easily broken than a fed cml statute? |