The Connecticut labor news., 1925-01-10
Illinois Manufacturers In Fren1ed
 Fight Against Child Labor Amendment
Seek to Make People Believe Reds Are Back of
 Campaign for Children
By JOSEPH A WISE

Staff Correspondent,
 International Labor News Service
 Chicago, Jan. 10-The Illinois Man ufacturers' Association is beating the
 tom-toms and has started the grand ballyhoo of the powers of pelf and pri-
 vilege against the proposed Child La Dor Amendment to the Federal Consti- tuition
 The agents of the predatory interests have everything set to make a pitch with their side show of freaks along side of the big top when the tEree-ring circus opens at the convening of the General Assembly at Springfield, Janu- ary 6. The prize freak in this marve-. lous collection is Zinoyiew, president of the Third International, who has been imported direct from Russia at great ex pense to fright the souls of fearful ad- versaries.'
 | Zinoviev 'eats 'em alive" say the
 manufacturers. and is the worlds great est proponent of the Child Labor | Amendment His wife, too, is with him in this matter, and these two have lined up all of the other Bolsheviki to put this hellish piece of legislation across on the helpless and downtrodden Ameri- can captains of industry. The whole blamed thing Is Communist contrap- ton, we are told, and all good men and true are advised to rally aroupd the flag and save the sacred right to exploit the labor of American babies This Information" and more Is con- tained in the Monthly Review for Ex- ecutives" of the Illinois Manufactur ers' Association. The executive are told that the aim behind the Child Labor Amend ment is step toward the nationaliza- ton of children. "A fine doctrine for American boys and girlsp says the frantic editor We are also told that it is the aim to do away with the family men,
 It would be interesting to know the opinion of the thousands of American women who have spent lifetime fight ing for child labor legislation as to such tommyrot. The bunk propagandists of the Illinois Manufacturers Association internationally avoid the fact that the American Federation of Labor and other agencies were fighting for such legislation for at least a quarter of century before Zinoviev and his Third Internatio and the Russian Bolshe- wiki came on the stage of world affairs.
 It does not suit the convenience of the Illinois Manufacturers Association to tell the truth and say that the Child Labor Amendment is an American mea- sure sponsored by loyal and patriotic American men and women. And by the same token the Manufacturers Associa- ton has offered gratuitous insult to these same men and women by classify ing them as Bolshevil<i.
 The Child Labor Amendment is sec ond in importance on the legislative program of the Illinois Manufacturers Association. The 1eather-lunged bally- hoo artists are shouting themselves hoarse over the wonderful merits of the State constabulary bill, that has failed of passage in the last three sessions of the Legislature Not whisper is heard from them in Chicago, but what Paddy gave the drum" is not marker to what is being done out in "the sticks" There is such a screeching and rowling and bowling out there that the rural legisla- tor must think that the devil himself and all his imps are after him.
 Every purchasable country editor in the State has been hired-through the placing of paid advertising matter-to assist in adding to the uproar
 The draft of the constabulary bill as presented to previous sessions of the Illinois General Assembly was regarded as the worst piece of legislation of its kind ever attempted in any State in the Union. The proponents of the proposed measure are expected to duplicate their previous efforts at the forthcoming ses- sion and are prepared and willing to turn loose flood of money to accom- plish their purpose They already have spent a very large sum of money for advertising space in the rural press of the whole State, and the Legislature is not even in session yet
 Victor A Olander, secretary treasu- Ter of the Illinois State Federation of Labor, said of this proposed vicious leg islation
 'In this measure it is proposed to en- act law which is to provide as fol-