The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-13
BOSSES Open
Big WAR FOR
CHILD LABOR
Cardinal O'ConneN is
Gang Leader

WASHINGTON, Nov. H.
Flushed with triumph at its sue
cess in Massachusetts, where
the child labor amendment was
rejected by 6o6,11o against
247, 221 votes in the referendum
on Nov. a, the national commit
tee for rejection of the goth
amendment has bIossomed out
in fine headquarters in the
Union Trust building in WASH
ington.
1t is just three floors above
the headquarters of the National
Association of Manufacturers,
which is one of it's chief hackers.
Secretary Keogh, in charge, was
formerly associate editor of the
open shop propaganda maya
zine, American Industries.
Keogh admits that ratification of the
amendment is possible so long as any
state legislature wants to reverse a
previous rejection by that state His
organization will continue to gather
funds and carry on a comfortably
salaried lobby against the measure so
long as the business world cares to
keep up its fight against ratification.
While the naturalization game is
good, the country will be plastered
with leaflets, pamphlets and letters,
urging that parents rise in their might
and stamp out this "Bolshevik" at
tempt to make their children "chat-
tells Of the state"
Fat Bishop Lines Up.
Among their circulars are the ones
used in Massachusetts, signed by Car
dinal O'Connell, Herbert Parker, the
legal adviser Of Coolidge in the police
strike affair, President Stratton of the
Massachusetts Institute Of Technolo-
gy, Herbert Myrich, farm journal pub
Usher, and President Lowell of Har-
ward university. Then there is a
heavy pamphlet by James A. Emery,
general counsel for the manufacturers.
urging the defeat of this politically
revolutionary amendment, and a
front-page article from the Ohio State
Grange Monthly.
Keogh admits that the whole bust
ness organization of the country is not
lining up against this amendment be-
cause of the profit derived from en-
ployment Of few children. What
they see in it, he says, is a most
dangerous precedent for further en-
croachments upon the property rights
of individuals. If congress is to be
empowered to regulate or prohibit,
at some future date, the industrial
employment of boys and girls up to
Is years Of age, another amendment
can be brought in that will permit
congress to dispose of the affairs of
adults of all ages. This is revolution
airy, because it strikes at the right to
work and the right to employ. The
next amendment would probably be
more revolutionary. The time has
come to call halt on easy changes
in the Constitution!
Young Workers. League.
Emery, in his attack on the amend
ment, says that Mrs. Florence Kelley
was the directing influence in "the
form and management" of the mea-
sure in congress, and that she is a
socialist leader of marked distinc-
ton" Moreover. the Young Workers
League of America, which has Com
munist affiliations, has declared for
abolition Of wage slavery for all
young workers up to is years of age"
proving that the measure is Mos
cow proposition. Finally, he quotes
Sen. King Of Utah as declaring that
every Bolshevik. every extreme Com
munist and socialist in the United
States is back of this measure"
On that showing by Emery, the new
lobby expects to get big collection
Of campaign funds, and to carry on
an anti-red campaign for long time