The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-07-27
WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY
URGES NEW CHILD LABOR LAW.

OnOES NEW CuAJD 1!AbOh LAW.
\ new child labor law is urged by
the Atlanta Georgian, in an editorial
which disagrees with the United
States supreme court in invalidating
the Heating child labor law.
1.-The law which has been set aside"
says the Georgian, denied the right
of interstate carriage to the products
OF factories operating with child labor
Of a certain class The question Of
cOnstitutiOnality was threshed out
pretty thoroughly in the debates in
congress. 1t was there believed that
the precedents set by the lottery
ticket act, which denied the right of
Interstate carriage of lottery tickets,
though their issuance was author
lied by sovereign state, were oper
alive in this instance. 1t was further
urged that the provisions of the Mann
act, making illegal the transportation
of women across state lines for i'm
moral purposes, furnished another
case in point.
But the supreme court, by the slen-
der majority of one vote, has disre
Sd1ucu L1lcSt pIcCcuc1lS anu uCGIdI Gu
the act unconstitutional. It holds, ap-
parently, that to justify the prohibit
ton Of interstate carriage to articles
or individuals they must be, per Sc,
intended for harmful or immoral ends.
The lottery is essentially and notori-
ously harmful to it's patrons.
Taking little children of 9 or II
years of age out of school and set
ting them to work in crowded facto-
ries apparently is not SO consid-
cred"
PROBLEMS OF FUTURE.
In urging the placing of trade
unionists in positions of public trust
that the ideals of this country may be
fulfilled after the war and that labor
be protected, Editor Frey of the Iron
Molders' Journal does not favor work
ers frittering away their time in be-
fore-the-War discussions.
There is no particular benefit" he
writes, lin discovering whether all of
the allied countries entered the war
with the same determination that
there should be no anneXations. The
one great fact which we must keep
in mind that war is now on, de-
termined opponent is straining
every resource to crush our armies
and the millions of American boys,
many Of whom are trade unionists,
now on the field must be supported
to the utmost of our ability, for, to
do otherwise, to leave them in a
position where they cannot even sue
cessfully defend their lives this con-
dition being equally true of the other
allied nations. The workers are not
willing to sacrifice their lives, neither
are the trade unionists in the coun-
tries of our allies willing, that no
man should be wounded in order that
any policy of annexation should be
carried out for the benefit of few
and the establishment of condition
which would only pave the way for
another war in the future.
1.-The principles which the trade
union movement have adopted as the
basis for the carrying on of the war
are as important in shaping interna-
tional policies, so that a just peace
can be entered into, as is their pres
ent support of the respective allied
governments relative to the winning
! of the war.
with these facts in mind it is now
essential, even though peace may be
some distance ahead, that our move
ment should prepare itself for the
| period of reconstruction which must
| follow the war.
The future of our movement was
never so bright as it is today, and
| we must unite in still further devel-
oping those elements of discipline and
| wise government within our own
| movement so that the confidence
| which is now placed in us will in
crease rather than diminish