The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-02-15
CHILD LABOR
LAW PREPARED
House Bill, Now in Committee,
Comprehensive Measure to
Protect Childhood
BOYS AND GIRLS UNDER
16 YEARS PROTECTED
In a Manner That Will Enable
Them to Secure Schooling; List
of Trades and Employments in
Which no Youth May Work.

Prominent men of North Yakima
have been requested and will write to
Governor Teats, chairman of the COM
mittee on labor and labor statistics in
the house of representatives, at Olym-
pia, and the other members of the
committee, urging them to report
house bill No. 29s, relating to the
employment of minors, prohibiting
those under certain ages from being
employed in the industrial estab-
lishments, trades or occupations and
providing a method of enforcement
This act is known as the child labor
law of Washington, and provides in
section 2, that;
No child under fourteen years of
age shall be employed in or about any
mill, factory, workshop mercantile
establishment, tenement-house. manu-
factory. workshop, store, business Of
flee, telegraph or telephone office.
restaurants, bakery, barbershop.
apartment house, bootbIack stand or
n the distribution or transmission of
me chandise or messages.
Section three provides that it
shall be unlawful for any person firm
or corporation to employ any child
under fourteen years of age in any
business or service whatever during
any part of the term during which
the public schools of the district in
which the child resides are in ses-
sion.
No Child Under Sixteen.
CT ic Ia
that no child under the age of six
MIL factory or workshop. or in any
of the following occupations or po-
sitions: sewing machine belts or as
sisting therein, adjusting any belt to
any machinery, oiling, wiping or clean
ing machinery or assisting therein; OPP
Grating or assisting in operating cir
cular or band saws. wood shapers,
wood jo ntersS planners, sandpaper
or wood polishing machinery, pick
ers machines, machines used in pick
ing cotton, wool, ha,r or any uphol-
STEERING material, paper-iacing mach
ines, leather furnishing machines, job
or cylinder printing presses, emery
or polishing wheels, wood turning or
boring machines, stamping machines,
or other steam gearing apparatus,
dough brakes or cracker machinery,
wire or iron Strengthening machinery,
rolling mill machinery, punches or
shears. washing, grinding or mixing
mills, calendar rolls in rubber manu-
featuring. and laundering machinery.
Dangerous Occupations
Section five provides that no child
under the age of sixteen years shall
be employed or permitted to work in
any capacity in or about or in con-
nection with the preparing Of any
composition in which dangerous acids
are used; manufacture of points,
colors or white lead; dipping, dyeing
or packing machines, manufacture of
goods for immoral purposes; nor in
about or in connection with any
mine, coal breaker, quarry, laundry,
tobacco warehouse, cigar factory, or
other factory where tobacco Is manu-
featured or prepared, distillery brew
cry or other establishment where
malt or alcoholic liquors are manu-
featured, packed, wrapped or bottled;
hotel, theatre, concert hall, drug
store or saloon or place of amuse-
ment; nor in operating any automo-
biz. motor car or truck; nor in a
boWln'T alley; nor in any other en-
plo,. declared by the state board
of h o be dangerous to lives or
limbs curious to the health or
morals children under the age of
sixteen.
Under section s the state board of
health may from time to time deter
hat M rff r
trade, process of manufacture or &C.
cupation. or any particular method
of carrying on such trade, process Of
manufacture or occupation, is suffc-
iently dangeroues to the lives and
limbs, or injurious to the health or
morals of children under the age of
sixteen employed therein to justify
their exclusion therefrom and may
prohibit their employment therein.
Must Have Chairs
Section provides that girls under
the age of sixteen years shall not be
employed in any capacity where sucn
employment compels them TO stand
constantly; and employers must pro-
vide proper seats.
Under section s, it is provided that
no child under sixteen years of age
shall be employed in or about amy es-
tabiishment named in section two I'M
less the firm or corporation employ
Ing such child procures and Keeps on
file and accessible to any truanC Of
fieer or inspector of factories, mer-
camille establishments or mines or
o. her authorized inspector, an en-
ployment certificate. The remaining
sections provide for the proper iden-
tifcation of children to be employed;
that certificates shall be provided
showing school record, Dirt 4, ctc.;
ami the penalties assessed for nom
col formity with these provis 'ons.
A commission of 20 citizsn', APP
pointed by the mayor of Spokane, has
been working for some time to COM
file 2 similar law and the measure
of which the foregoing is a Synopsis,
lis being backed by them. anybody
interested in the subject is asked to
" lite to trc chairman of the commit
tee aiYeady mentioned and urge ne
passage of this measure, which has
the hacking of the local Young
Mems Christian association and other
! organizations.
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