The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-02-04
TH|SB|[[ WILL
LESSEN CHILD
LAB||O|RlN.N!VA.
Weiss Measure To Come Be.
fore House In a Few
Days.
ARE DRASTIC
NATIONAL BUR. CLAIMS THAT
BILL Is 5rRoNe
4t ENOUGH.
ARE DRASTIC

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CHARLESTON, w. Va, Feb. A.
Prohibiting the employment Of all
children under fifteen years Of age
IN any OF the industries OF the state
In which there Is any great danger Ia
life or limb and making fourteen
years the minimum age limit in other
instances. the child labor bill intro
duced in the house by Delegate Harry
A. Weiss OF Ohio county, will come
up f9r passage in the house this week
While the bill has been severely
criticized by the National Child Labor
Bureau as not being drastic enough
1t Is claimed by Its sponsors to be as
strong as could be passed at the pres
Ient time. They hold that II is q good
strong measure and II passed In its
present form 1t could be amended ut
the next session OF the legislature to
|embody such requirements as are
found to be needed. It amends chap
ter sixty Of the acts of 1911.
1t provides that no child under the
age Of fourteen years shall be EN-,
ployed. permitted or suffered to work
In, about or in, connection with any
mine. factory. mill, workshop, or man
ufacturing establishment, store, office
office building, restaurant, bakery
barber shop, hotel, laundry. place OF
amusement. or In any telephone OF
telegraph office, or In the delivery or
transmission Of merchandise or mes
sages. No child under the age Of four.
teen years shall be employed. per.
|mitted or suffered to work at any
business or service whatever during
the hours the public school OF the dis
trict in which he resides are In ses'
sion. unless special permission In
writing is granted by the person au
thorized in section five to issue EN-
iployment certificates.
No child under fifteen years of age
shall be employed, permitted or suf
fered to work in, about. or in con
|nection with any OF the occupations
named in section one for more than
nine hours in any one day. nor more
than fifty-four hours in any one week
Scope Of Bill.
No child under the age OF fifteen
years shall be employed. permitted OF
suffered to work In or about:
Mines, while the publis schools Of
the district in which he resides are
in session.
Blast furnaces.
Dusts. operating or using any
emery, torpoli, rough, carborundum
steel carborundum, any abrasive OF
any emory polishing wheel where art
cles of the baser metals ar OF iridium
are manufactured.
Electric wires, on the outside
erection and repair OF electric wires
Elevators. in the running or man
agement Of any elevators, lifts O.
hoisting machines.
Explosives, In or about establish
ments where nitro.glicerine. dealin,
gun cotton, or other high or danger
Gus explosives are manufactured
compounded or stored.
Matches, in dipping. dying or pack
ing.
Quarry, In or about.
Oiling or cleaning, in oiling o.
cleaning dangerous or hazardous ma
chinery In motion.
Railroads, switch tending, gat,
tending, Us brakeman, fireman, eng
neer, motorman, conductor, telegraph
operator.
Wharves, in or about.
Bakeries. dough brakes or cracke
machines Of any description.
Belts letting belts lin notion
sewing lin any capacity
Boilers, operating any steam boil
ers or any steam apparatus.
Building trades. on scaffolding o
on ladder, or on heavy work.
Furnishing machines, in any tan
merry or leather mandatory.
Iron and steel, ironor wire straight
ening machinery, punchers an.
shears.
Laundry machinery.
Paints and poisons, manufacture o
paints, colors or whitehead, manurac
ture OF any composition In which
dangerous or poisonous acids ar,
used; manufacture or preparation o
compositions OF dangerous or poison
GUS dyes; manufacture or prepare
ton OF compositions with darrH-ou.
or poisonous gases; manufacture o.
preparation OF I've or in which The
quantity thereof is injurious to health
Presses, cylinder or job boring OF
drill.
Rubber. washing grinding or mash
ing mill or calendar rolls In rubber
manufacturing.
Theatre or concert hall.
Woodworking. wood shaper. wood
Joiner, planer or sand paper, wood
polishing or wood turning machine
Wood cotton. hnir upholstering
carding machine, or machine used In
picking wood. cotton. OF any uphoi