Norwich bulletin., 1922-06-22
CoNNECTICUTs CHILD LABOR
 LAW REMAINS IN FORCE

The recent decision of the supreme court of the United States, written by Chief Justice Taft, on a rider to an in come tax law passed by congress and which involved the question of child la bor as it applied to the number of hours which children under 16 may be employ ed in industrial establishments, does not affect this state. The decision of the SUI preme court stated that the federal law or rider to the act of congress encroach- ed on the rights of the states and be- cause of that eneroachment it was url- constitutional.
 At the session of 1921 the general as- sernbly passed a law which reduced the hours of child labor from 55 to 4S per week. The first session Of the act reads:
 ''Ne child under IS years of age shall be
 employed, required or allowed to work in any mill, cannery, workshop or manu- featuring establishment more than eight
 hours in any day or more than six days in any week or after the hour of s O. l clock in the afternoon or before O. clock in the morning." The penalty for the violation of the law Is a fine of $20 and costs for each offense.
 l On the passage of the law Labor Com ] missioner William s. Hyde and Deputy
 Factory Inspector William E. Duncan | had circulars containing the law printed
 and circula ted among manufacturers and other employers 0 flabor affected by 1t. 1 Notwithstanding the steps taken by | the state officials to spread Knowledge l of the new act, statenen ents have beer made, since the decision of the supren, court was handed down, which showed l that quite a number of people, who werj i particularly interested, were not awari of the change in the enactment of tn | q ef fAda act had not been declared unconstitu tional by the supreme court and was il l force when the bill was under consid efation by the general assembly in 1921
 There will therefore be no change in tn
 child labor situation, regarding the hour
 when children under Is may be employ ed in Connecticut. If the law of 192
 had not been enacted the federal ac which has been declared unconstitutiona would have been in effect and since tn I decision of the supreme court has ren dered that act imperative the stat : would have returned ipse facto to tn state law. which was superseded by tn law of 1921, and which permitted tn employment of children 55 hours week The act of the general assembly, fixin the maximum time at AS hours a weet , and not more than eight hours a da continues in force in Connecticut. It l quite likely that there are some states . which had no laws of their own on tn , subject, that will have no law linitin the hours of work for children under six lteen, now declared unconstitutional. Bt
 Connecticut is not one of them.
 Deputy Labor Commissioner John
 Burke stated this week that the employ , ment situation in the state was nearl l normal at the present time. He sai = that the number of unemployed in tf s state was not much more than it was e 1913, the year before the World wa t broke out. Deputy Commissioner Burl : does not advise farm help to be tempte k to go to the farms in the southwest, tI
 west and northwest in harvest time fro
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