Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-03-30
UNIFORM CHILD LABOR
LAWS ARE NECESSARY
Convention With This End in View
Assemblies for 3 Three
Days. Session.
SOUTH AwAK|NC TO SITUATION
/ ouisiana Governor Doubtful Whether
Transition Of South From Aaricul-
ture to Manufacturing Center Mark
ed an A6vance-First Concerted
Movement Cor Protection in South.
(Ry Associated Press.)


Seeking the accomplishment of uni
torn child labor laws IN the South.
dc lpga'tS from q numb, r 0f Southern
States ca'hcr' Il III New t".ran% ihdar
for 4 conferences to ,;trEi over a Pc
riod cf hrc" DAYS.
Not only ,'ors Tue r01v, Gtlon "ark
the Gr.t COnrcrt"d L.,v, u!"nt il this
direct on in NE SnI;h, iur il is made
further not .Il' J., toe lac. that in
attendance upon 1t are 10th leading
cxroncnts OF a more stringent child
lahG@ regulation and prominent manu-.
lacturcrs employing child labor as
Wei! as leading public officials
Views Are Varied.
Various viewpoints were presented
at the first sslOn of the Congress
this afternoon, and from the different
expressions and suggestions tina: are
to be offered during the course of the
convention it is hoped to arrive AT the
provisions OF what would COrst.t ute
a model child labor l2w bill Tor adop,
ton l.. the StaiIs OF the Solth.
GuvefE,T Sanders of Louisiana, was
called 10 act as permanent chairman
after the details of preliminary or
eanlzation had been carried out and
several addresses had been delivered
He declared that the views which
would be submitted would be. in many
instances. widely divergent, and that
compromises would he inevitable as
even in the actual enactment of all
laws.
Transition a Retrogression.
In commenting on the changed con
di ions in the South in the last gen
Grafton Governor Sanders said that
he did not know but what the transi
ton from an agricultural South 10 a
commercial! and manufacturing South
spoke no good for the people.
Governor Herbert 8. Hadley, o!
Missouri. declared that il was the
duty and right of the States to pro
tee, the chi''ren and women who toll
and that Missouri was ready to join
in any NOV ement which aimed at this
lanes W. Van Cleave. Of 81. Lolis
president OF the National Manufac
tuners. Association. spoke from the
manufacturers standpoint. He de
clareG thar the great majority Of man
uiactnreTs are in favor Of making the
minimum age for the employment OF
children at fourteen years and that
81 q r.
tnrers in assuming that they were op
posed 10 child labor regulation. He
believed that il would be only a com
paratively short time before the won
derful improvement o: machinery
would create conditions so that there
would be no room tor children in fac
tories. and declared that child labor
was in reality not profitable labor
10 the manufacturer.
Make Parent Responsible.
A. to the laws for the regulation
Of child employment he declared:
Make the parent responsible tG
the state and you will solve the
problem"
Miss Jean Gordon. factorv insPec
tor for the city Of New Orleans, en-
tered into severe arraignmcHt Of
laws existing in the majority OF The
Southern States which grind ont the
welfare ard happiness OF women and
children"
She made a saTcas tic reference "a
the establishment Of night schools
and libraries for children and women
employed in factories. declaring You
might as well install an aT; gallery
IL, an a--ivr, Tor tho biiDf