Evening journal., 1910-05-07
SOME EVILS OF
CHILD LABOR
0. R. LOVejOy Speaks on Sub
jeCt Here and 0rganiza-
ton is Effected

owen r. Lovejoy, secretary Of the Ma
tional Child Labor Committee, address,
ed an audience at the New-Century Club
last night that filled the parlors and over
flower into the hall.
Mr. Loveioy said that difficulties of in-
teresting people IN the movement were
caused by the diffusion Of clild labor if
II we're gathered in one spot the evils
would be so clearly seen that It would
be wiped out. Secondly. people think the
majority OF workinn children are engag-
ed in healtful farm work; but they are in
factories and mines. The greatest trou-
BILE Is from people whose pity is aroused
and who rush into print without investi-
CATION, no said. The descriptions in books
Of recent years are exaggerated and un-
true, Mr.. Lovejoy said, the majority of
employers are not brutes, but like other
people. The great objections to child Ia
Dor, he said, are that children are kept
at monotonous tasks which allow no de-
velopment Of mind or body, In many cases
taking away strength for moral resist
ance. More than three times the acci-
donts in all pursuits happen to children
than TO adults, because they are children
and careless.N In night work, the boys
come from the heated factories into damp
night air. and being boys scorn to bum
die up; and sickness results. Long hours
are a grave feature.
The United States employees more child
labor than any country on earth the
speaker said. Pennsylvania employees
moro children than all the Southern cot
ton mills. In the cotton mills of the
South, an eight-year old girl is allowed
TO work twelve hours a day. Farms en-
.P nrnrfipallW
slave system.
Criticises Delaware Law.
Mr.. Lovejoy criticized the Delaware
Child Labor Law for allowing nine hours
a day, and for the work-certihcates in
which the parents swear 'he child's age
before a notary. He recommended certih-
Gates issued by school supe~intendents
based on documentary evidence. He
called Delaware parsimonious, in that II
employed only one factory inspector at
a salary which did not allow him to give
all his time to the work, TO do the work
Of several men; for Delaware was large
state industrially.
The national secretary spoke OF the
honest belief of many employers tnat all
children should not be educated for many
were needed for mental tasks. He said
that all labor needed skill Even street
G Gaming and garbage collecting needed to
be conducted on scientific principles. They
were no more disagreeable than sur
geon's work, and meant the health Of
j whole city. He said that by the time the
? women in the audience grew to be the
age Of the speaker, every street-cleaneI
would be required to have a diploma from
course in sanitary science to show h'
knew the difference between microb'
and an aeroplane.
Not only education, but a right to re-
! ligious training should be given the chill
dren; they were too tired on Sunday now
The physical evils he said we're too OBJ
vious TO need discussion. Eng and's eX
r perience with her puny recruits for TIN
3 Boer war were an example. All the abus
Of the children would inevitably re-ac
s upon the State.
s After the lecture, the Rev. II. W. Wells
chairman Of the meeting called for tn
organization Of Delaware Child Labo
{ Committee. A nomination committee wa
] appointed, Mrs. Albert Robin, the Rev
DR.. II. W. Kellogg and Newell Ban
I nard, Jr., who named the following of
q hoers: Chairman, the Rev Hubert W
z. ! W ellSs Nlcc-cudlllndut MISS NAL Sci Z
- IShearman; executive secretary, Newe
n Barnard, Jr., treasurer, Alfred d. Wai
It ner. Also the following, who with the OF
e dcers viii be the executive committee; Mis-
Elizabeth Briscoe. Miss Mary II. 4
Mather, Peter j. Ford, Josiah Marvel, /
II. Ward, Arthur L. Bailey and George /
MI Ter. The Rev. r. L. jackson acted .
teller. The secretary Of the meeting, Mis-
~, Anna S. Bird, cast the ballot, and I'll
fe nominees were declared elected. The mai
~ provisions of the constitution, as adopte
m previous to the election of officers, ca
l. for active and associate members The e.
l. ecutive committee and others elected
majority vote of the active membersh
v, after approval by the executive committe
s. shall be the active members. Any residel
Of Delaware may become an active ass
n ciate member on annual payment Of
minimum due Of one dollar The annu
meeting Is to be held in october. Speci
meetings may be called by tho chairm'
or fixed by the executive committee. II
N state committee is organized separate
- from the national committee, but the tV
will cooperate.
pc Lists Of books on Child Labor in 4
in public library were distributed and a.
os, we're child labor leaflets dealing with co
n ditions in Delaware.