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Show Twenty-Five Years of Marked Progress in Protective Legislation for Children nerles, street trades, tenement home work end agriculture." The committee announces Its Intention Inten-tion of continuing Its fight to raise child labor standurds In states where they are low, and Its study of those types of Industries and agriculture which still utilize smnll children, until some effective pluo of control is found. At the same time it announces the Importance of studying new aspects of Juvenile employment relating to the fields of education, henlib and welfare. Contrasting child labor condition in 11)04 when the committee was or ganlzed and at the present time, the National Child Labor committee in report Issued recently reviewing the work of the last quarter of a century, point out that there bas been a remarkable re-markable degree of progress In securing secur-ing protective legislation and reducing reduc-ing the number of child laborers. "It Is," the report states, "a record of achievement Tbe goal set forth In 1004 I well on the way to realization. Few lines of social endeavor can show ucn a record." According to the report, In 1904 only 17 states were attempting to keep children under 14 out ot factories; fac-tories; by 102ti each stuta has some kind ot 14-year age limit and In 89 tote no children under 14 ran work In factories under any circumstance. In 1004 five states prohibited the employment em-ployment of children under 16 In factories fac-tories at night; by IPSO thirty one other state bad followed suit In 1904 only two state had established an eight-hour day for children under 10 years of sge In factories; by tbe year 1029 tbe number had Increased to 80. Notwithstanding this progress, the child labor problem Is not yet a closed chapter of American Industrie life In tbe opinion of tbe National Child Labor La-bor committee. "There still remains a good bit to be done before child labor, even In tbe early usage ot the term, Is eliminated. There are still loopholes whereby children under 14 can work In factories In some states ; the eight-hour day for children Is not universal; night work, especially outside out-side ot factories, I still possible; health and educational standards for entering Industry, while In most states far beyond the standards of 1004, In some states have not yet been written Into the law and In others are not enforced. And certain fields of employment still constitute a baffling problem notably can- |