Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-12-21

XOyEC MISSISSIPPI COTTON $NtnNEES, SOME OF THEM ELEVEN
YEARS OLD, PHOTOGRAPHED ON MAY 8 1911.
var amended through lq yesHta. efforts Of the cotton mill lobby, Sc that
1t falls below the standard which reason dictates and humanity requires.
Summary Of the Mississippi Child Labor Law.
AGE LIMIT FOR NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. years in cotton and wooden
at work injurious to health Or in operating dangerous machinery.
AGE LIMIT FOR NIGHT W0RN-slxteen years
than ten f. any one day or more than ffyeight in any one week
AFTIDAYITs required by parents or guardians stating place and date o.
birth = ae eA4d, the last school attendance grade Of studies and name "
in their respective counties once a month and see to the enforcement OF the
law, ad county health officers twice Il year are required to report to ING
sheriff children Of unit physical condition or those afflicted with a communF
cable disease Circuit judges required to charge grand iuHe5 to investigate
the violations Of the law
tblslA-ls refusing 20 give iADA. no. ina ueu by esCsa Ute
or failing TO obey lawful orders ii sheriff II health ohcers ire deemed gWN
not more than $500
Any person, firm or corporation Or officials of the san employing children
Nnion shall be fined moi less than 500 o more than $780, or be sentenced to
the county Jail for not less than ten days or more than sixty days. Z" may
suffer both such fine and imprisonment
Children Of Twelve Still Work.
Since the enactment Of this law there has beer a general advance in the
standards Of child labor legislation throughout the United States Mississippi
Is now one of the remaining six states of the Union which permit children as
young as twelve years of age to work IN factores-that is the age limit for
work in factories in thirty states is fourteen years. in two is fifteen, in one is
thirteen. The Mississippi law, moreover, makes al unfair discrimination
against the cotton and wooden mills. It should be extended toa all manufactur
ing industries, including the canneries, and to all other trades in which chill
dren re employed The provision prohibiting children under sixteen from
working in factories at night Is good in itself, but should be extended to all
forms Of child labor While the hours of labor for children under sixteen, not
more than ten a day, are a shorter period than in some OF the states, some OF
the greatest manufacturing states in the Union prescribe N eight hour day
for children under sixteen. And experience has shown in all the states that
have tried the Mississippi method II factory mspecnon by sheHnS OF grand
4urfae that the child labor law is a dead letter unless there are state officials
dren are employed The child labor law went into effect IN lWS me photo
graphs shown with this article We're taken in 1911. The violations OF the law
are thus proved to be numerous by ocular evidence There is testimony to
the fact that the ten hour day for children under sixteen is not generally OBJ
served. Has any one heard of a prosecution of any Mississippi manufacturer
for violating the law OF his state?
Agent 8ollon's Investigations.
lin spite OF the low sa4.uL which was reached in this legislation, there
c %| .Lor-a~. a 10 r.fors he Ie@iAature Of l08 met a careful myedga-
ftov s made of several cotton mills in Mississippi by Rev. A, n seldom u