Bisbee daily review., 1914-01-24
NATIONS CHILDREN
 ASKED ID CONSIDER
 THEIR OWN PROBLEM
Churches and Schools Want Them to Think for Them selves About Child Labor

NEW YORK, Jan. 2S.--The Child Labor problem will be put before the children themselves throughout the country this year for the first time. Sunday has been designated as Child Labor Day to be observed as has been the custom for the past ten years in regular and special church services generally. but a new step has been taken by the National Child Labor Committee in calling upon teachers throughout the country Co observe next Monday as Child Labor Day in the schools.
 The main idea is to get children to think fin their own behalf on the prob lem of child labor To this end the National Committee has been busily engaged for a month past in supply ing teachers, as well as clergymen with the latest phases of the move ment against child labor. and pro pose that at chapel exercises or at some specially designated period in llAionday's school work teachers shall in some manner take up the subject of child labor with their charges.
 Interest taken in the matter is re. flected in requests which have lately come in at the rate of over 100 day for information in reply to which the National Committee has distri- buted quantities of pamphlets on the relation of child labor to education. Indications are that thousands of teachers will unite with clergymen n some sort of observance of the day.
 Since the first Child Labor Day was observed in 1906. such striking prog ress has been made that the rank and file of sites today have advanced be- yond the standard of the most pro- gressive ten years ago, ccordlng to owen R Loyejoy. general secretary of the National Child Lbor Commit tee
 The child labor laws of practically all states have been revised and i'm proved: knowledge as to conditions of working children has been widely spread. the causes. effects and meth. ods Of prevention of child labor have become mtters of thorough scientific study and treatment a Uniform Child Labor Law for the several states has been widely approved, and the Federal Government has put into successful operation d Children's bureau.
 But" Secretary Loyeioy adds, the
 white list of states with a really ef- fective child labor law covering ten or more of the common occupations of children is still very short-only IA states in all. and even these leave certain kinds of work outside of the 3 fourteenyear limit
 T "There are nine states which nave not yet reached l4-year age hmi'
 even for factory work; there Is nc state in the union that has attempted Q to get an age limit higher than F 8 years for newsboys and only sever il states have reached a standard or 2l
 years age limit for night messengers
 'Boys of fourteen or less are SUI s employed at the peril Of their mora e and physical integrity in this nigh |. messenger work in score Of states
 Horticultural work is still entirely
 unregulated outside of New York an' B. Tennessee. ana children of tende e years are doing an adults work II II the berry fields and cranberry bogs. !, Many states tha. have made Chil'
 Labor laws are not seeing that the. x are enforced and the National Com v- mittee is now engaged in carefu d survey of the methods of administer
 ing the law in the different states.
 "The standard of inspection servic '' is steadily rising but we fall far te lt low the English. There are half do7 C. en states in which there Is no al is tempt at inspection of labor cond
 tions nd therefore no attempt to CT 'i force the child labor law. And ther Ii' are perhps score in which the stai Is of inspectors is so ridiculously sma
 that thorough statewide inspection physically lmpOsslDle
 The whole subject of the admins x traitor of child labor laws is to b e. taken up at the National Conferene s on Child Labor which will be held l
 New orleans next March. Plans ar es also under way for celebration of tn a' tenth anniversary of the organizatio
 of the National Child Labor Con
 mittee which will be reached
 April 14th.
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