Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-02-04
MEMBERS ARE INSPIRED
TO GREAT ENTHUSIASM
National Child Labor Committee En-
couraged Over Passage OF
Heating Owen Bill.
IN SESSION At .ASIiEvILLE
Secretary's Annual Report Details
Achievements During Past Year
Accredited to Comrnittee-ReCOrd
Not Without Legislative Defeats.


Not Without Legislative Defeats.
.ASlIEvIIIE. y. G, February Sin
spi-ed TO AN unusual decree OF en-
ihusiastn by the triumphant progress
OF the Heating owen child labor bill
through the lower house OF Congress
Yesterday. the National '.hild Labor
Committee began a three days session
here this afternoon. with Samuel Nc
'unc Lindsay professor Of socia!
legislation ut Columbia CniversitN
vice -chH!rman OF the National Child
Labor Committee. presiding in the
absence OF Or. Felix Adler, chair
imam or the committee. who was de-
tanned BIZ sickness. Another absentee
was Or stephen : Mise. Of the Syna
gopue. New York. who WAS compelled
TO leave shortly before tn. conference
opened TO ill another engagement
The feature OF this afternoons scs-
sion. which Wa lnrgcl" given over 10
registration and organization. was the
reading OF the annual report OF Cen
oral secretary owen r I.ovcjoy. %
New York. who stated that favorable
child labor legislation had hecn secured
in ALBANIA. Arkansas. California. Con
N"cticut. Florida. Iowa, Maine. Massa-
chus.its, Michigan. Nevada, New lamp
snirc. New York oklahoma Penn
sylvanin Rhod" Island. south Caro-
linz. Texas, West Virginia. Wyoming
and Tennessee.
other achievements acorcdjtcd 20
tho efforts OF tn. National Child Labor
COMMITTEE. in Secretary I.oVcio."s re-
port were local option ana compulSory
school attendance laws In Florida ana
South Carolina. State MID compulsory
education laws in Texas aud Alabama
eight hour day Tor children under SIX
tecn in Iowa; q uime-hour day Tor
children Under sixteen In PENNSYLVANIA
"a ii L. l.f -,
.ilahama. California, Iowa ponuSyi-
vnnia and Rhode Island
Among tho Legislative" defeats en-
countered by the committee, IS related
in III" sccr"tarTs report. were a bill
in Georgia 10 nrovilc for f.c,cr, IN
spocuon The entire program Of child
labor legislation i'm North Caroliu:. ana
Texas. iii 10 raise tho age limit
from twelve To fourteen years i'm South
Carolina; and a bill in West Virginia
seeking 10 prohibit tho employment of
children under sixteen years at niGh,.
secretary Lnvejoy prcfaccd the read
inS or h!S report with q abatement to
tie effect that IN" Overwhelming ma
Iority given tn" Heating Oven bill bv
The lious" Of Representatives Oh We'd
nssday Went far 10 show that the on.
position TO FcdcrH power is not Sec
Iional Every member from Virginia
every member from Texas except two.
and every Tennessee member cxcept
one. voted .or the bill. said the sec
reiary.
While no, = partN measure. he
continued. III happened that every Re
publican Congressman in The United
states with the one exception Of James
J. Britt the Representative from the
Tenth Cong:c ssonal District OF North
Carolina, wherein the child labor con
ference is being held, voted for the
heating Owen measure"
az
the discussion OF attempted child labor
Legislation In North Carolina, by Sebu-
Ion Weaver, member OF The state
Legislature.
Will. FIND SOME COMPROMISE
PLAN OF PHEIAHEDNESS
Declaring that neither the cxtrcmcs
OF militarism nor the peace n, any
price advocates will prevail, but some
compromise plan would be found. Dr.
discussed True Preparedness" the
subject which had been assigned 10
Dr. stephen II Wise who left the
city this afternoon 10 MI an engage
mcnt elsewhere.
"Gcnticmcn,' said Or. Lindsay, there
is preparedness other than for war:
There is the question of what this gov
crnment is going to do for it's people
in peace. II can stop the traffic in
child labor il can control the health
and education of it's people. Congress
can do more for the childrcn'S bu-
rcau as n department of government"
The speaker declared that another
form of preparedness could he found
in the way OF Industrial legislation.
Our demands are moderate. We ask
only that children shall not he regard
ed AZ an asset to be exploited: that
they hc not allowed to work under the
age OF fourteen for more than eight
hours Il day. These principles lie at
tho basis of industrial efficiency and
this. i'm turn. is an essential Of mill
,ary preparedness Let us couple with
preparedness for war insistcnce on So
called legislation along these lines"
The Relation of Child Labor to Com
pulsory Educa ton was discussed by
president Currcl', OF the University Of
South Carolina.
Mrs W. l.. Murdoch. chairman OF
the Alabama Child Labor Committee,
EirminCham Ma. discussed "Movinc,
Forward in Alabama" Following Il
recital of the Legislative accomplish
,lcnts OF tic child Labor Committee
in Alabama. Mrs. Murdoch declarcd:
-, can no longer he said that In
Alabama everybody rests but the chill
drcn.'
Mrs. Florence Kelley. general Soc
League, New York. told OF the careful
efforts made to keep true record of
births I'm New York State In order to
prove the ages Of children. "Of every
dollar Uncle Sam spends" said Mrs.
Murdoch, the sum Of 20 cents goes for
war, past, present and future, but tho
government has totally neglected the
Childrens bureau.
Among the speakers on the confer