Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1913-01-16
CHILD LABOR DAY
PLANS ENDORSED
Clergymen Favor Obser-
vance as Outlined by
National Committee


NEW YORK. Jan. % The Va
tional Child Labor Commuters cal
10 churches and school 20 obsery'
saturday. Sunday and Monday. Jan
% and % as child Labor Days has
received the hearty endorsement o.
the Federal Council Of the Churche'
o. Christ To- America and % the So
dal Service Commission o. the Pro
tostant Episcopal Diocese Of New
York Bishop Greer says Natural
.ly ! am deeply Interested. and an
glad 10 endorse and commend your
appeal 10 The clergy Of the diocese
Tho following letter signed by sha
Der Mathews. President. and Charlie
s Mcfarland. secretary ~ the Fed
eral Council % the Churches 81
I Christ In America. has been sent n
one hundred state and city fedora
ton secretaries 81 the Federal Coun.
Tell
49, authorization OF tho Exeu
f tive Committee ~ the Federal Coun
len and OF the Federal Councils Com.
/ mission on the church and social sef-
vice. the call,of the National Child
/ Labor Committee FOR the obsery
Ianro ~ the child Labor Sunday Is
commended 10 your earnest consd
Grafton With the hope that. loo tho
Way they suggest or by such other
method as may commend Itself 10
IyoHr Judgment mo subject % Child
Labor may Boz fully presented in all
. Iis seriousness 10 the Christian men
land women ~ tho nation
~ the recent Wadreunill session
+ of the Federal Council ai Chicago
December 70. 1912. me council roaf
'rmel ifs declaration of four years
previous that The churches must
stand
For che abolition Of child labor
4 For tho fullest possible develop
u'nt FOR every child especially hy
I tto provision ~ proper education and
recreation
Those 'no principles are embed
ted iu tho platform ~ social priue
piles adopted by the council
Do Wg.uc them 20 observe Child
Labor uar me Social Service CHM
mission OF The Protestant Episcopal
/ Diocese o' New York sends 10 all
/ lI" clergy Zoo that diocese the follow
/ ms strong resolutions adopted by
thr House ~ Bishops az the last
general convention. Cincinnati. r
1910
Whereas Tho employment OF
children Boz factories. mines and
shops. reduces wages 20 the chiId's
standard disinicgratcs the family
drnr.ges The child OF his natural
rights TO period of training and
time of play. and dcpreoiates the
husm1u stock and
Whereas We recognize the ro-
spousihIl.'y ~ the church for our
Industrial as well as our spiritual
standard.
Therefore. We rall upon employ
.rs and parents 10 usc am Influence
toward better log. Station and better
"nfor am'ni ~ 'hc laws for the
protection of children. 20 me end
'haf EXPLOITATION of the labor of
h'ireu shall become impossible boz
tbs christian country"
To gId .n The Observance of child
Labor Day the National child L1-
Dor Committee .s sending free 20 all
clereymcn and school principal. who
apply Tor d. pamphlet ~ facts
about child labor IN this tho com
m'tlec prints. among other things
the census fguros on child labor for
1900. The latest figures available on
Tho subject and points ont that the
total number OF workers IU-i5
years OF ago I.1a2.1.7. does not in.
CLYDE 'he thousand. 90 ueVshoys. nor
'h' other thousands of children who
r0ro employed BOZ tenement house
w'un'Hrfur.ug Also the es'imaf,
Of 'si...0 children classified as
engaged .r manufacturing and m,
ch1r8I pursuits Is misleading snu.
clnn'-t children were u many
states reckou,l as agricultural work
ers
70 .s expected thar boz all OF th, a.
states having legislative sessions This
winter bills bearing ON rho child la-
Nor problem win Boo introduced
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