The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-08
CHILD LABJR LAW
The South Carolina legisIa-
ture has Passed Act.
kfier Long Struggle Compromise Child
Labor Law is Ra,f in South
Carolina.

Carolina.
But oh, the poor! the poor, the poor.
That stand by the inward opening door,
Trades hand doth tighten evermore,
And sigh their monstrous foul air sigh,
For the outside hills of liberty.
Where nature spreads her wild blue sky
For art to make into melody!
Thou trade, thou king of the modern days.
Change thy ways,
Change thy ways:
Let the /sweatly laborers file
little while, little while,
Where art and nature sing and smile.
Trade! is thy heard all dead, all dead?
And hast thou nothing but head?
SIDNEY LANIER :
One of the arguments urged against the
passage of a. child labor law by this
General Assembly is that, inasmuch as
other Southern States has no such law.
North Carolina would be in danger of
losing labor One Senator said last week:
Look at South Carolina, it has no law.
1t has larger mills, but it has no law =
That remark cannot be made again. Yes
terday the South Carolina Legislature
passed a child labor alw 1t was a COM
posit measure, being the results of the
result of the mutual concessions of the
introducer of several bills. 1t is as fol-
lows:
Sec. /. That from and after the first
day of May. 1908, no child under the age
of 20 years shall be employed in any fac
tory. mine or textile manufacturing es-
tablishment of this State; and that from
and after the first day of May. 1904, no
child under the age of II shall be employ
ed in any factory, mine or textile manu-
featuring establishment of thi estate;
and that from and after the first dav of
May 1905, no child under the age of Il
years shall be employed in any factory
mine or textile manufacturing establish
ment of this State, except hereinafter
provided.
Sec. 2. That from and after Nav 1st
1903, no child under the age of II years
shall be permitted to work between the
hours of o'clock p. m. and 7.o'clock in
the morning in any factory, mine or
textile mandatory of this State.
Sec 3. That children of a widowed
mother and that children of a totally dis
abled father who are dependent upon
- own labor for their support, and or
Waned children who are dependent upon
their own labor for their support may be
permitted to work in textile establish
ments of this State for the purpose Of
earning their support: Provided That
in case of child or children of a wild
owed mother or of a totally disabled
father, the said mother of the said father.
and in case of orphan children, the guar
dian of said children, or person standing
in loco parents of said child or children
shall furnish to any of the said persons
named in section OF this act, an affi
davit duly sworn to by him or her, be-
fore some magistrate or clerk Of court
of the county in which he or she resides,
stating that he or she is unable to sup
port the said children, and that the said
children are dependent upon their own
labor for their support? then, and in that
case the said child or children of the
said widowed mother and the said dis
abled father and said orphan children
shall not be affected by the prohibitions
in section l of this act and filing of said
affidavit shall be full justification for
their employment Provided, further.
that the officer before whom the said
affidavit shall be subscribed shall en-
dorse upon the back thereof his approval
and his consent to the employment of said
child or children Any person who shall
swear falsely to the facts set forth in
said act shall be guilty of perjury and
shall be indictable, as provided by law:
Provided further, That the employment
of said child or children shall be sub
ject to the hours of labor herein limited.
Sec. a. That any owner, superintend-
ent, manager or overseer Of any factory,
or textile manufacturing establishment
or any other person in charge thereof or
connected Herewith, who shall employ
any child contrary to the provisions of
this act, shall be guilty of misdemeanor,
and for every such offense shall, upon
conviction thereof. be fined not less than
SO. nor more than $50 or to be imprs-
oned not Ginger than 80 days, at the dis
erection of the court.
Sec. 5. That any parent, guardian, or
other person having under his or her con-
troll any child, who consents, suffers or
permits the employment of his or her
child or ward under the ages as above
provided or who misrepresents the age
of such child or ward to any OF the per-
sons named in section of this act, in
OEu6T W OUldlu tilipiOy iOi Su1H thllu
or ward, shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and for every such offense
shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined
not less than $40 nor more than $50 dol
lars, or be imprisoned not longer than 80
days Gin the discretion of the court.
Sec. 6. That any parent, guardian or
person standing in olco parents. who
shall furnish to the person named in sec
ton of this act certificate of a school
teacher or school trustee that their child
or ward has attended school for not less
than four months during the current
school year, and that said child or child
rem can read and write, may be permitted
to obtain employment for such child or
children in any of the textile establish
ments of this State during the month OF
June, July and August, and the empoyl-
ment of such child or children during said
months upon the proper certificate that
such child or children have attended
school as aforesaid, shall not be in con-