Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-12-11
SENTIMENT FOR
CHILD LABOR LAX
Deputy State Labor Commits
sioner Shepherd Finds Much
Interest in Subject
PUBLIC OPINION IS GROWING.
Suit Over the Settlement Of tho Davis
Estate in Washington County At
tracing Much Attention-orga
tion Of "square DeaI'' Clubs in the
Eishth-other News.

E;ch+h.-other News.
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Speciai TO liiraes- 1sep p4o4'e'
Des Moines, Dec l.-Airred Shep-
end deputy state labor commissioner,
,4.a.o,,araa that there is an in
''e-S ,,;,,,
creaslng se"eiiiie'ne ~
labor legislation. Those wiun Wnofn ne
has come in contact with over the
=, o,,,, +ha factory insnections
o's-', - - 80, -
are Interested ana ne cniIlAs eheie -
Is an increasing probability that rhere
:. 49, .,s,,+,,re - the r,,b-
sssSioA y u'e 70
Hc opinion IS q critel''o1n iseeei1ols .
large number OF children have been
NIT o,,t ~ factories because they were
s.. -. .h.,, s,.,,,,a ha in
- ui7 aee "
school The cnaet terr1rory ulsa' s's'eii''
to offerd Is the territory along the
Mississippi river. Last week there
was discovered in one shop a boy OF
12 years working In the same room
with his father. The boy received 80
q week and the father $8. 1t was
pointed out that the boy was IN COM
petition with his own father and that
the combined wages were no more than
the father alone should receive and
would receive IL there were no chill
iren In competition with him and the
father voluntarily took the child out
OF the shop and sent him to school.
The incident, It Is said, Is only one OF
many where young children are kept
from school and forced to work In fac
tories A very large number are found
worleing near or at dangerous ma
chinery.
AZ suit over the settlement OF an es-
tate estimated at 100000 has been ap-
pealed from Washington oounyy to the
supreme court. The suit Is that OF
VIM. H. Davis, Rachel Davis, Saraln
Edie ami others against Judge Byron
w. Preston, district Judge dn a certi-
orari proceeding. 1t is shown in the
petition that William III. Graham, OF
Washington county, died possessed OF
an estate Of 100000 which he inher-
ited from his father and left a Will
which tor brevity is a record breaker
1t consists of not more than dozen
lines and leaves everything to the wife
hond The u,laintiffs In the suit claim
A,rot Graham their relative. was al
wavs Of a weak disposition and al
lowed himself to be Influenced by his
vito and more especially by his moth
a,.-,,, .naw tn give all his estate to her.
thoo,es, l,, had expressed a preference
- Give a mart of A. to mis- relatives.
M, -, . - saeline to have the will set
as,sa - Dc vim. anean oa,tained Inv nm.
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