Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-01-26
CHILDREN AND
CHILD LABOR
CAMPAIGN AMONG TEACHERS
AND PREACHERS TO GET CHILD
REN TO THINK FOR THEM.
SELVES ON THIS SUBJECT.
SUNDAY CHILD LABOR DAY
CHURCHES EVERYWHERE WILL
OBSERVE DAY. AND MONDAY
THOUSANDS OF SCHOOL TEACH
ERS WILL SPEAK ON PROBLEM.

New York. Jan. 2i.-The Child Labor
problem will he put before the children
themselves throughout the country this
year for the iir>t tima Tomorrow has
been designated a. Child Labor Day 10
BE- observed ~ has been the custom for
the past ten wears in regular and spe
cial church services generally. brr u
new step has been taken 10y The Nation
al Child Labor Committee ~ calling
upon teachers throughout ,he country
to observe next Monday a. Child Lab
or Day in the schools.
The main idea il 90 get Childbirth 10
think in their own behalf ON the prob
lem Of child labor. To this end the Nat
iOnal Commits. has been busily engaged
for a month past in supplying teachers.
as well as clergyman with the latest
phases Cf the movement against child
labor, and proposes that AT chapel excr-
Cises or at some specially designated
period in Mondays school work teachers
shall in some manner take up the sub
Ject Of child labor with their charges.
Interest taken in the matter is re
Elected in requests VIII ch have lately
cine In M the rate If over 100 u day for
information. in reply 10 which the Nat
iOnal Committee has di>tr. butcd quaint
ties Of pamphlets on the relation Of child
labor Ia education. Indications on the
relation of oh d labor 10 education. In
dicatiOns are that thousands Of teachers
will unite with clcrgNmcn in some part
Of observance Of the day.
Since the first Child Labor Dav was
observed IN 1905. such striking progress
has been made that the rank and file
OF states today have advanced beyond
the standard of the most progressive
ten years ago. according 10 Owen X.
Loveioy. general secretary % the Ma
tional Child Labor Committee.
The child labor laws of practically
all states have been revised and i'm.
proved: knowledge az to the conditions
Of working children has been widely
srreac the causes. effects. aud methoGs
Of prevention Of child labor have IT,.
rorlc matters of thorough study and
treatment: \ Uniform Child Labor
Law for the several states has been
widely approved. and the Federal Gov
rnmcn has put into successful opcr-
alton n Childrcn's bureau.
bHl. s'fTfldfN inNtNIbN 'NA>. lHc
white list ~ states with i really effect;
i've child labor law covering ten or more
occupations of children is still very
short-only II states in all. and even
these leave certain kinds of work out
side of the fourteen wear limit.
There are nine states which have not
YET reached a livcar age limit for fac
tory work: there : no state IN the union
that has attempted To get au age limit
higher than L. Years for ncw>hoyS: and
only seven states have reached 4 stan
dard II II years age limit for night mes
scngcrs.
Boys Of fourteen or less are still en-
ploycd nj the peril Of their moral and
physical integrity in this night mcSscn-
ger work in "a score of states
The standard Of inspection service is
steadily RISING. hut We fall far below the
English. There are half 4 dozen states in
which there ~ no attempt at Inspection
of labor TO enforce the child labor law.
And there are perhaps a score IN which
the staff of inspectors i So ridiculous
~ small THAI thorough state wide in
spcction is physically impossible"
The whole subject of The admimiStra
tion Of child labor laws j. Ia bc taken
up at the National conference nn child
Labor which will H. held in New or
leans next March. Plans are also under
WHY for celebration of the tcuth ami
versary Of the organization of the Nal an
al Child Labor Committee which will
be reached on .April nth.