The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1911-09-28

State Legislatures in session this
spring and summer.
This State enacted laws regulating
The number II hours for empl,yx
fnIcnt q ciidrpns The cight-hour
day for chil!en under is was cstak-
lishcd in Colorado, Missouri, and
Wisconsin. In California and Wash
inston the eight-hour day was
established for women and girls.
Massachusetts, passed d ffty-four-
hour week for malcs under is and
all females in manufacturing and
mercantile establishment; Missouri
an eighu- hour day and fity-four-
hour week for all females; Utah a
fifty-four-honr week for boys under
IA girls under 16s North Carolina
and Geoagia both reduced the
working hours from sixty-six to
sixty per week and Indiana estab-
lished an eight-hour day for chill
dren nder is with the exception
that upon application Of parents
children may work nine-hour day
and fifty-fourhour week, There are
now ten States and the District OF
Columbia which forbid the employ
ment Of children under I6 for more
than eight hours day.
Colorado, Indiana, Missouri, New
Hampshire, New Jersey, South
Caroline ami wisconsin passed laws
forbidding the work Of children un-
der 16 at night. California made
the prohibition extend to is, and
Vermont excluded children un. er
16 at night from work in hotels
and bowling alleys. The employ
ment Of young boys in the night
mes senger service was still further
restricted hy the enactment Of law.
forbidding such employment under
II in Massachusetts, New Jersey,
Wisconsin and Utah. Four st ties
established the 18-year age limit for
night messenger service: Michigan,
New Hanlsphirc, Oregon. Tennessee.
tCalifornia by Il general law forbids
such employment TIA Ter is and
Indiana under is. The first law
secured. to eliminate minors from
the night messenger service was in
New York last year.. and investiga-
tions show that it is only a question
of time when it viii be abolished
throughout the country.
The disposition to afford special
protection to children against dam
gerous occupations was seen in the
enactment Of laws prohibiting chill
dren under Is in Wisconsin, and
under 16 in Connecticut, Colorado,
Indiana, Missouri, Tennessee and
Vermont from specific lists OF dam
gcrous occupations. In Indiana the
law protects girls to Is.
Colorado, Vermont and West Vlr.
ginia have fixed the age Of IA as the
limit below which children may not
work, and Indiana, Missouri, New
Jersey and Wisconsin extended their
present laws to covernew Industries.
California and Oregon have es-
tablished a 15-year minimum for
general child labor.
! Girls under 10 years in Colorado
are prohibited selling articles on the
streets and Nevada forbids all chill
dren under the same age; New
Hampshire makes the age limit 10
for boys and Is for girls; Wisconsin
raised the age of newsboys from 10
/ to II and Of newsgirls from is to Is,
and provides that in other street
trades BOYS must be IA and over
It is interesting in this connection to
compare the bylaws recently adop-
ted by the London County Council
which provide that no girl under 16
and no boy under IA shall be al
lowed to carry on street trading,
land no boy under 16 shall do SO at
hight. In London, theatres, music
halls, concert rooms and pubic
houses are barred to street traders
under 16 years Of age.
Ten states have passed either new
or more stringent laws regarding the
inspection OF places where chiGlea
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