The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-05-06
WILL MAKE CLEAR
CHILD LABOR LAW
Inspector Blakely Says Law
Is MiscOnstrued-to
Give Facts.

Indianapolis, May g. William +.
Blakely. chief of the state department
of inspection. in placing new order
with the state printer for certificates
blanks concerning the ages of chill
dreR who apply to the inspection de-
partment when seeking employment
rights has caused to be printed on the
backs of the certificates the provis-
ions of the new child labor law, con-
corning the kind of work in which
children may engage.
Mr.. Blakely finds there is wide
spread misunderstanding as to the pro-
visions of the child labor law. many
believing no child under sixteen years
old is to be permitted to work at all.
He has pointed out that the provisions
of the law are negative, and that chill
old are permitted to work at all kinds
of work not expressly prohibited by
the act.
The only exceptions made for chill
dren under fourteen years, it is point
ed out, are farm or domestic work, and
work in canning or preserving factor
les from June l to October 1. next fol
lowing. the latter class of work being
permissible for only such children as
are more than twelve years old.
All children under sixteen years old
are forbidden by the act to be en-
ployed at any of the following kinds of
work: Tobacco warehouse, cigar or
other factory where tobacco is manu-
featured or prepared, hotel. theater. or
place of amusement. or in any employ
ment where their health may be i'm
paired or their morals depraved." The
law says further:
mo boy under sixteen years old, and
no girl under eighteen years old shall
be employed in or about brewery,
distillery, saloon, concert hall, or any
other establishment where malt or al
coholic liquors are manufactured.
wrapped or bottled; or indipping, dye
ing or packing matches, or manufac-
turing, packing, or storing gunpowder,
dynamite, nitroglycerine or its COM
pounds, fuses or other explosives. No
girl under eighteen years old shall be
employed where the work would COM
pei her to remain standing constant
ly. A4
Hazardous Employment.
No child under the age of sixteen
shall be employed or permitted to op-
crate circular or band saws, wood
shapers wood joiners, planers, stamp
ing machinery used in sheet metal or
tin work manufacturing, stamping ma
chimes in washer or nut factories, and
all other stamping machinery used in
stamping metals; steam boilers, steam
machinery, or other steam generating
apparatus dough brakes or cracker ma.
chinery of and description. wire or
iron Strengthening machinery, rolling
mill machinery, punch or shears.
grinding or mixing mills, calendar
rolls in rubber manufacturing or laun.
dry machinery, corrugating roofs OF
the kind used in roofing or washboard
manufacturing.
1t is held that child over fourteen
years of age and under sixteen Tor un.
der eighteen) can be employed at any
kind of labor not expressly prohibited
by the law, and the new age certifi.
Gates will expressly set this out.
Certificates to Tell Story.
The certificates will also set out the
hours in which children may be EN-
ployed. This provision is more far
reaching in it's effect than the provis
ion concerning the kind of work which
children may engage, it is held by
friends of the law.
| The law provides that no child un
der sixteen years shall be permitted te
work with the exceptions provided
more than forty-eight hours in one
week, or more than eight hours in any
one day, unless the employer shall
first have obtained the written con
sent of the parent or guardian; but IL
no event shall the child be permitted
to work more than nine house in any
one day No child under sixteen is tt
be permitted to work before Z O'Clock
in the morning, nor after 6 o'clock il
the evening.
While the new law does not requir,
the filing of age certificates as wa,
required by the old law, the employ
ers of the state demand the certifi
Gates in employing children, the pre-
caution being taken as defense il
the event prosecutions are undertak
len.
Il WARNING.