Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-10-11
CHILD LABOR BILL
GIVES NO JOKER
sec. WILSON SAYS
Head of Labor Department De-
MES Democratic Party
Left loophole
SAYS PENALTY CLAUSE
Is WELL FORTIFIED
Declaus Republicans in Error
in Recent Attack on
Legislation
BY c. S. ALBERT
Special star Bulletin CorrsspOndencel

WAShlNGTON, ID. u, Oct. L. IL
department OF labor has been intel
esting itself in the claim made by Re
publican leaders that there is job
er in the child labor bin that practi
eally nullifies H. Secretary Wilson
says the Republicans are in error II
their contentious. His statement vii
be interesting In Hawaii, where chill
labor legislation has been considered
IN the territorial legislature, and ais
because in Washington statement
were made that the administration
bill might affect Hawaiian canneries
IL is as follows:
"The much talked about joker in tn
child labor law is supposed to be con
tanned In that portion of section ont
OF the act which reads as follows:
THAT no producer, manufacture
er, or dealer shall ship OF deliver
for shipment in interstate or for
eign commerce any article or COM
modify the product Of any mine or
quarry, situated In the United
States, In which within thirty
days prior TO the time of the re-
moval of such product therefrom
children under the age of sixteen
years have been employed or per-
misted to work, or any article or
commodity the product Of any mill,
cannery, workshop, factory, or
manufacturing establishment sit
uated In the United States, in
which within thirty days prior to
the removal Of such product
therefrom children under the age
OF fourteen years nave been EN-.
ployed or permitted TO work, or
children between the ages Of four
teen years and sixteen years have
been employed or permitted to
work more than eight hours In
any day.sor more than .sizs days IN
any week, OF safter the hour OF
seven O'Clock postmeridians or be
fore the hour Of six O'Clock ante
meridian
~No one familiar with industrial
practises would for moment imag'
inc that any person or corporation
operating q mine, quarry, mill, work
shop. factory or manufacturing estab'
lishrhent would regularly store their
product for thirty days in order that
they might employ child labor. and SO
the seasonal industry Of canning Is
set forth as the best Illustration OF
the alleged defect in the law" said MT
Wilson. at is asserted that all
Gamer has to do is to store his pro
duct for 80 days which he usually does
anyway, and then he can ship It where
he will.
sThe people who make that asser
ton fail to realize the difference be
tween a cannery and a warehouse. the
warehouse may be situated under the
same roof as the cannery or under .
separate roof; IL may be only foo'
away or It may be miles-that is i'm
material to the law.
Determining Point
ct is the employment OF children
within thirty days prior to the removal
OF the product from the cannery tnal
determines the application OF the law
IL should be observed that It is mol
only the product OF child labor thai
is barred from interstate shipment, bul
the entire product Of the cannery II
which child labor has been employed
at any. time within 80 days prior te
the removal from the cannery OF tht
product offered for shipment IL FOL
lows, therefore, that any person Wr
employs child labor after the act goes
into effect will have to dispose OF TN
product of his plant within the STATE
in which It il produced for 80 day!
after he discontinues the employment
of children. No portion of the produc
of his plant while he is employing
children or for 80 days thereafter cal
ever be offered for interstate shipmen
without violation Of the law. To maxi
doubly sure that gaps and loker'
could not find their lodging place i
the law Congress enacted Section
providing:
THAT the encouragement, the
secretary of commerce and the
secretary Of labor shall constitute
a board to make and publish from
time to time uniform rules and
regulations for carrying out the
provisions of this act
"The so-called joker is really a per
atty clause to punish those who do no
Immediately comply with the chill
labor provisions by excluding the pro
ducts of their plants from interstat
shipment for 80 days after they ceas
TO employ children, and the attorney
general, the secretary of commerce
and the secretary of labor are author
lied to provide the rules for carryin
the act into effect"