Evening star., 1918-04-09
BILL T0REGU[ATE
EMPLOYING minors
D. c. Children Under IA, Fe-
males Under Fl, Affected by
Proposed Legislation.
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PENALTIES, $40 TO $500

PENALTIES, $40 IU $ZUU
To regulate the employment Of minors
within the District Of Columbia bill
has been introduced by Representative
Edward Keating Of Colorado, which has
been referred to the House District COM
pnittee. The principal provisions OF the
bill are:
That no child under fourteen. years
of age shall be employed or permitted
to work in the Districh In connection
with any mill. factory. warkshop' me-
camille or mechanical establishment.
tenement house. factory or workhouse.
store, Office. office building. restaurant
boarding house. bakery, barber snop'
hotel, apartment house, bootblack
stand or establishment. public stable.
garage. laundry. theater, other places
of amusement, club or as driver. nor
in any brick or lumber yard. nor In the
construction or repair Of buildings, nor
I'M the distribution, Transmission or
sale of merchandise, newspapers.
periodicals or circulars. nor In the trans Z
mission of messages. nor In any trade
or public place. "
Can't Employ During School Hours.
No person. hrm or corporation can en-
ploy any child under fourteen years Of
age in any business Or service during
any Of the hours wheh the District pub
lie schools are in session.
The health officer of the District OF
Columbia may, after hearings, determine
whether any particular trade or occupa-
ton is sufficiently dangerous to the
health or morals OF the children under
sixteen years of age to justify their ex-
under sixteen years of age can be em-
ployed under this bill in any occupation
found by the health off1cer to be danger.
GUS or Injurious. The right Of appeal
to the Supreme Court Of the District Is
The health officer is authorized after
hearing to determine whether or not
any trade or occupation Is sufficiently
dangerous to the health or morals OF
the children under eighteen years OF
age with similar provision for appeal
as in tho case OF sixteen-year-old chill
dren.
As to Females Under 81.
No female under twenty-one years
Of age shall be employed in any ca
pacity where such work compels her
to remain standing constantly. The
bill specifically provides that any per-
son employing females under twenty
one years Of age must provide at least
one seat for every three persons thus
employed.
No female under twenty-one years
Of age would. under this bill, II
enacted. be allowed to work in the Dis
trict as a messenger with any tele-
graph, telephone or messenger service
company or for delivery OF goods.
No male under twenty-one years Of
age could be employed before o'clock
in the morning or after 10 o'clock at
night.
No girl under eighteen years Of age
could sell or distribute newspapers.
magazines. etc, nor engage In any
trade or occupation in any street or
public place.
Must Procure Work Permit.
! No child under sixteen years, except
boy between fourteen and sixteen
years engaged Independently of any
employer in tho distribution or sale Of
newspapers or merchandise in streets
or other public places. shall be per-
mitted to work in the District unless
tho employer procures q work permit
issued by the superintendent OF schools
or his representative.
On the termination Of the employ
| ment of a child such permit must be
returned by tho employer within two
days to the official who issues 1t, ac-
| companied by statement Of the roa-
son for the termination Of the child's
employment.
Required for the issuance of such q
permit is submission to an approval by
the superintendent OF schools Of the
following papers:
Written Statement Of Employer.
| A written statement sighed by the
| person for whom the child expects to
| work, setting forth that he intends
legally to employ such child.
The school record of such child filled
out and signed by the principal Of the
school last attended, setting forth that
such child can read and write and has
] completed course Of study equivalent
| to six yearly grades.
A certificate signed by medical in
spector of, schools stating that the
| child has reached normal development
and is physically able to be employed
in the occupation in which the child
intends to engage.
/ Documentary evidence Of age, show.
/ ing that the child Is fourteen years OF
| over.