The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1911-01-05
CHILD LABOR
BILL FOR THE
LEGISLATURE
FIGHT OF INDIANA WOMEN TO
HAVE REWARD IN
COMING SEES
SION
Proposed Law Will Forbid Employ
ment of Children Under
16 More Than 48 Hours
a Week.

Indianapolis, Jan. 3.-Sweating the
lood of children by day and poison
;ng their minds by night will be at
acked in a child/labor bill which will
',e introduced in the legislature
through the efforts of the Indiana
child labor committee and the educa-
'ional and child labor committee of
the Indiana federation of Women s
clubs. Details of the bill as it will
come to the legislature have just been
revealed.
For children under 16 to be en-
ployed in any ~gainful occupation ex-
cept farming OF homework, to be en-
ployed more than eight hours a day
or 48 hours a week will be forbidden
by the proposed law. The night
phase will prohibit the employment of
children under 16 before 6 a. m. OF
after 6 p. m.
Boys under Is and girls under Is
will not be permitted to engage in
what are termed injurious occupa-
tons. In the list is includedlwork in
cigar factories. distilleries and brew
cries and in any hotel, theater, con-
cert hall, store or place of amuse-
ment where liquor is sold. The list
acids is a practice OF where explosives
alsO includes factories where danger
Gus acids are used and the dipping OF
IRE manufactured.
Factories having dangerous ma
chinery r placed under the ban for
children under the ages specified and
the following machinery is specified
Circular and band saws. wood shap,
RS and joiners, planners, metal stamp
ing machines, devices for making cor
rugated rolls. such as are placed on
vashboards and roofs. rolling mill ma
chimes, punches or shears, grinding or
mixing mills.
One section Of the bill will forbid
boys under ii and girls under 1S
from selling newspapers or anything
| Else on the street. -
Mrs. Lockwood Active
Mrs. Virginia Lockwood, of Indi.
annapolis secretary Of the Indiana
Federation of Women's clubs, and
Prof. W. G. Weatherby, president of
the Indiana child labor committee;
who are especially active in PROMOTING
the bill, say Indiana is away behind
n the respect the same legislation
having been passed by Ohio, Ken
lucky, Illinois and Michigan.
The child labor bill which was IN
reduced in the last session passed
the house and died in committee lack
ing three hours of coming before the
senate. The manufacturers opposed it
and the advocates of the bill say they
promised if the matter we're deferred
two years so they could quietly
change conditions in the factories to
suit the needs Of the bill they
would consent to its passage. For
this reason the senate committee let
il die. The child labor workers say
now they intend holding the manu-
~facturers to this promise. They de-
clare it is only the welfare of the
child they are seeking and not TAX
ing a regulation labor union stand
with the intention of employing more
adults.
At least three bills and probably
more on the subject of workmen's
compensation will be pondered by the
legislature. One will be presented by
the civic federations. one by labor or
CARNATIONS and one by the Indiana
Bar associations.
The bill Of the bar association will
be the fruition of two years thought
upon the subject. Addison c. Harris,
was president of the committee which
first investigated it and it now chair
man Of another committee which il
drawing up a bill. The other men,
bers of the committee are Dan Simms
of Lafayette; John s. HAYS, of Sulli-
van; Daniel Fraser, of Fowler, and
James w. Noel, of Indianapolis.