The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-06-28
-FOUR OF JUSTICES DISSENT
Declaring the 1916 Measure unconsti-
tutionai, the Court Also Removes
Restriction on Employees of
Carolina Cotton Mill.


children employed by it, were sustain
ed by the court.
Justices Holmes, McKenna, Brandeis
and Clarke dissented.
The attack on the constitutionality
of the federal child labor law orig
mated in North Carolina, where Judge
Boyd of the federal court at Greens
boro held the statute invalid. The
government appealed to the Supreme
court.
The law prohibited the interstate
shipment Of articles produced in fac
tories employing children under four
teen years old. The measure aimed
to strike at the evil through interstate
commerce. Judge Boyd in ruling the
law invalid said:
Congress can regulate trade among
the states, but not the internal condi-
lions Of labor"
The chief objection to the measure
conferred In the South, among the cot
ton mill owners who exploited that
class Of labor. A group of Southern
Democrats fought the bill bitterly all
through congress.
The bill provided that the products
of children under a specified age shall
not be transported in interstate COM
merce. The age is sixteen in mines
and quarries and fourteen in mills,
canneries, workshops, factories, and
manufacturing establishments. Chill
dren under sixteen may not work in
any event more than eight hours a day
and six days week, nor between the
hours of seven o'clock at night and
seven in the morning.
Many japanese girls are making
their living by work formerly done ex-
clusively by men.
War and war work has deprived
New York state firms of $4,000 labor
ers in the last year.
The government has established a
women's division of the United States
eupIOymeuC service.
Plumbers at Limerick, Ireland,
struck when refused an increase of So
a week in their wages.
A wave of organization has struck
shop employees Of the Atchison, Te-
peka and Santa Fe railroad.
An all-Ireland conference is to be
held to consider the question of food
supplies for that country.
Washington reports a surplus of
labor all over the states with the ex-
ception of the Gulf coast.
The Kentucky illiteracy commission
Is teaching thousands Of men Of draft
age how to read and write.
The Sailors Union of the Pacific re-
ports that over one-half of the bene-
Ats paid out by this organization in
1915 was for reading and educational
purposes.
An Englishman has invented q peri
scope to be mounted in q locomotive
cab to enable an engineer to see the
track ahead Of him or the whole of
his train.
Nine-tenths Of the 100000 accidents
that occurred in Pennsylvania last
year were preventable. according to
Harry A. Mackey, chairman Of the
compensation board.
The secretary of the Kentucky State
Federation of Labor has been dis
missed from the Louisville fire depart
ment by the board Of public safety
because he organized a union Of fire.
men.
The executive board Of the Wash
ngton state federation Of labor has
recorded its protest against any and
Ill proposed amendments to existing
laws that will admit of
any greater freedom for entry of Chi
1ese labor"
A state supreme court decision
landed down at Boston denies a labor
lnion the right to say how many men
hall be utilized on any Job.
In Germany working hours of all
plants have been increased from eight
hours a day to ten and even twelve
1t the same rate Of wages.
For workers about electric rail-
Dads shovel has been invented with
IN insulated handle to protect them
should the blade touch charged wire
,r rail.
Barrel the Only Rolling container.
A barrel can be rolled. This is its
greatest merit. Every other shape of |
,ontainer which weighs over 100
pounds when filled must be lifted bod
ly and carried on hand truck or by
loisting machinery. One man can I'M
Dad carload of sugar-200 barrels
If it-in less than an hour.
Japanese Superstition.
The japanese have many curious
ahout animals tho chfof