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CHILD LABOR BILL
PASSES SENATE.
Measure, as First Amended,
Carried on Third Reading.
SOME CT IFS PROVISIONS
Upper House of Legislature Also
Passes Bill to Abolish Office of Sec
rotary of Internal Affairs.

Upper House of Legislature Also
Passes Bill to Abolish Office of Sec
rotary of Internal Affairs.
Harrisburg, Pa, June 19.-The child
labor bill was passed on third reading
by the senate practically as it was
originally amended in the senate judi
eiary special committee.
The senate also passed the bill regu-
lating the hours of employment for
women as amended. There was no dis
eussion and the vote for thirty-five for,
with no diss enting vote.
Over these bills there has been wag-
ed a long and vigorous battle, and tn
action practically ends the struggle
so far as the legislature is concerned.
/ Several amendments were offered
by the advocates of the child labor bill
and those that had not been mutually
agreed upon were defeated. The hard
est fought amendment was that which
exempted canneries from the provis-
ions of the bill. 1t was adopted by a
vote of II to IA, and the caneries are
thus permitted to work their employees
in the rush seasons more than ten
hours day.
The elastic clause was stricken out
of the bill and a compromise clause
was inserted by agreement along the
lines of the one inserted in the bill
regulating the hours of employment OF
women. This clause provides that in
cases of holidays and the breakdown OF
machinery employees can be worked
over time, but not more than fifty eight
hours a week, nor more than an aver
age Of ffty-fsur hours week for the
whole year.
The bill was called up on special or
der and the senate went into commit
tee of the whole to consider amend
ments. The first amendment was Of
fered by Senator Salus, Of Philadel
phia, and it was agreed to without
division. 1t struck out of the bill that
the provisions of the measure should
not apply to nurses in hospitals or to
telephone operators in central offices
or to employees of hotels.
An amendment offered by Senator
Knapp, of Warren, making the hours
of labor for children forty-eight g
week, with not more than eight day
was defeated. The bill originally pro
vided for forty-eight hours, but the
senate made it fifty-four a week and
not more than ten day.
Senator Salus then offered ar
I, ,fp "a
ions exempting the glass industry, but
it was defeated after short debate
A tho bill now stands the glass indus
try can work boys at night.
Another amendment by Senator Sa
lus providing that messenger boys EN-
and a. m. shall be twenty-one year;
old, also was defeated. AS the bill now
sands this provision reads eighteen
years.
The provision that parochial school.
shall issue certificates which. will per
nit boys OF certain ages to work was
stricken out on an agreement by both
sides.
Advocates of the bill attempted tc
strike out the provision that exempts
newsboys from wearing badges, but il
was defeated.
The senate passed the amendment
to the constitution providing for the
| abolition of the Office of secretary Of
internal affairs, which resolution ha6
already gone through the house. If the
next legislature agrees to the amend
ment it WILL be submitted to the people
for q vote in 1915.