Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-11-14
RULINGS OF TIE STATE CHILD
WELFARE COMMISSION ON
THE CHILD LABOR Law N
lSection 5; Chapter 100 Public

I Laws 1879
Sec. s. Provided, that no child
under the age of fourteen years
shall be employed or permitted te
work, in or about or in connection
with any mill, factory, cannery
workshop, manufacturing estab
lishment, laundry, bakery, mercan
tile establishment, Office, hotel, res
taurant, barber shop, boot-black
stand, public stable, garage, place
of amusement, brick yard, lumber
yard, or any messenger or delivery
service, excepting cases and under
regulations prescribed by the com.
mission hereinafter created.
Sec. 6. Provided, that no person
under sixteen years of age shall be
employed or permitted to work at
night in any of the places of occu-
pations referred to in section 5 OF
this act, between the hours of 8 D.
m. and a. M, and no person in or
about or in connection with any
quarry or mine.
RULINGS
The State Child Welfare Commits.
sion,in executive session on August
6, 1919, made the following rulings
which have the force of law:
|. No child of any age under 1G
years shall be permitted to work in
any of the occupations mentioned
in section 5, before 6 o'clock in the
morning or after 8 o'clock at night.
This ruling is made mandatory by
section 6, and the law gives no dis
erection to the commission to modi-
fly the same.
2. No girl under II years of age
shall be permitted to work in any
of the occupations mentioned in sec
ton 5. The reason for this is that
if the womanhood of the State is to
be properly conserved in the future
girls of tender age certainly should
not be allowed to run the dangers
of association inherent in employ,
ment in public places.
3. No child under n years oil
age shall be employed in any Of
the occupations mentioned in sec
ton S for more than eight hours in
any one day.
4. Boys between u and IA years
OF age may be employed in the
enumerated occupations when tho
public school is not in session wheT
lit is shown to the county superin
tendent of public welfare that the
proposed employment is not to the
injury of the health or morals Of
the child. But in no case shall
such employment be legal until q
certificate has been issued by the
county superintendent of public
welfare on blanks furnished by the
State commission. Before deter.
mining the question the county
superintendent of public welfare
may, if he deem it necessary, re.
quire a physical examination of the
child by the public health officer OF
other practicing physician.
Child labor law does not prohibit
the employment of boys between
the ages of IL and IA on Saturdays
and out of school hours, but certifi-
Gates of employment must be OBJ.
tanned from the Supt. Public Wei
fare. Furthermore, the law does
not prohibit parents from employ
ing children on the farms, or in
|places owned and operated by the
parents themselves, except in pro.
hibited hours, and no certificate OF
employment is required in such
cases.
Again | wish to call attention to
the fact that the compulsory school
law does not compel farmers to
send their children to school the ex.
tent that they will be forced to
quit farming as some seem to think
The law provides that farmers may
have the help of their children
where it is shown to be case oil
necessity.
o. G. REYNOLDS,
Stunt Dph1ic NNolforo