Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1913-03-15
CHILD LABOR IN
SOUTH DISCUSSED
SPEAKERS SURVEY SlTUA-
TON AT JACKSONVILLE
CONFERENCE

GreeugIln. IS e Mrs Edward o.
Bailey. of Jackson Miss w H
suin of Greensboro. " c. and Row
nr g. D. WcIfnrd NJ Columbia g g..
made up % symposium OF speakers
this morning 0n Tho topic Survey
OF the child Labor situation Boo the
south a. the National child Labor
Committee Conference which De- be-
lue held Boo This city
Or Mccullough reviewed ihe press
rrt child Labor Law OF south Caro-
lima and said OF tho situation To the
present legislature
"a hiI s nov pending Zoo tho state
legislature iu raise tho age limit
90 thirteen from aud after the first
I8F of july 1913 and fourteen after
thc first DAY. of july 1914 This bin
aas received au u%ufayorahle report
at tho hands oi the Senate judiciary
/ Committee % Raa deemed adyis-
able NOT 10 make 70 fight Bt mis- Bos.
sion Tor Dos enactment. Boo tloR 81
/ fbs fight thIch tbR being made Tor
tb, enactment ot a Compulsory Edu-
cation bIII. and boo view OF The prom
i.os made to thr child Labor Com
m.tfee hy the representative Of the
South Carolina Cotton Manufactur
ors' Association that 10 the Compul
s1rs Education bin was enacted, they
would unite with us Boo securing tho
passage of bin raising the axe linn
f Boo South Carolina
Mrs Bailey told of the enactment
ot the present lua that gives Miss
.HsippI The distinction OF being the
pnlf southern cotton State with AN
eight hour day for an under 10
Years She then said
ro fhc best OF the knowledge and
belief OF tho Child Labor Committee
fho Child Labor Law has been strict
Is enforced. AZ regards cotton mills
and factories
But MissisHippc's most difucglt
child tabor problem ~ present .s
that Of the little oyster shuckors on
tho Gulf Coast These children are
nomads. coming ou oyster l%uggcrs
from the North Atlantic Coast 10 tho
Southern Coast for the winter oyster
packiur soasuiu. and returning TO
the Chesapeake nay cannorics for the
summer The children are with
their parents parents without mon
tal ability or moral standards. with
mo- conception of right living aud
no Interest beyond their daily food
supply Whether the case Is for tho
Law or the gospel. local charities on
national philanthropios. ! confess. I
cannot determine Perhaps a meas
uro OF responsibility rests GOA each
Mr. swift said
'Timc and time again during the
past wear. ! have bcon made 10 feel
that What vc need Boo North Carolina
is a. larger membership in the Na
tIoual child Labor Committee So
iar as can see. We must depend
upou this organization to aid as iu
doing mau} of the things which must
be- done
Back of an attempts to secure
proper legislation and proper iuspoc
ton lies % greater work. uamclA
that OF making tho people themselves
feel such o. need for Improvement
that thoy actually demand that 70 ho
made lf the community ouly know
ihe worth of children and could on,
place the proper estimate upon child
i'' children would come into their
uau af once What w' need iu North
Carolina and H %, whole South I,
somebody who will shake up this
factory population as our farmers
haso been shaken up rb, trouaI,
WIN us a chat our people Go uui
consider
l,rt pr W,Iturr of So Luk
Lutheran Mission amoue cotton min
operatives af olympia. Columbia IS
said
Woiiar, aork lmoug cotton mIII
operatives s prruIr,IuU problem
because OFF coo IIltera., aud fb.
transient character OF tho MAIN boo
DO, ofHor pHa.,. of Ih..- condition
sH.a fHr 1nssrr, OF leadership
au1 f.H..f.tIou th. .uo aer I.m,
go uE tH. 00.II Labor IaN uf south
Carolina auH tH, pret. I..., col. carl.
a.d ||.lH. s.I marriage. .nd
0.ak.HHr of tHmr lIf, cr,ltI conn
I|I.lfs efforts H' ae'far. eor. rHs
r..I'esf need. off tbs present I-p
a State compulsory .u.. at
%t"udaH.. 'aP It.,oar ~. limit
'Ir working children and o. birth r..
'.fIafIoH Iaa Also A, need I'd. have
labor union of cotton m opera
Hss leaders Hlt, brains
hearts ..I .-1H.r.s1e,s
'lt r lathrop .oHi.t u.tHa
Fedora. llIIds Bureau 40 WASHING
af the National child
'H'nr Iaumlt,ss C%oulsrslr, H.r, 90.
r.0' reviewed thr gro-r.-s ot th,
barear iurug the first .h months
of %. existence which h..a just end
Cd She said u part
h.tsr careful i's.l..o r 90 what
piso' o' a1rt should bs undertaken
trst 30 tas determined thar d series
of stHiIes of infant mortality. un-
derf bru BOZ som, of che smaller rlt