Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-02-06

Judging AtNih
nanlap's letter published in the or-
ana Daily Courier last Saturday
.vening he may be expected 10 oppose
--s Child Labor Amendment on the
f.#v Of the senate in case the lllinels
Iaeislature takes action on the ques-
Lem at the next session of that body
Iaboring men take note that the
-enator is running true TO form IN his
altitude 10 this piece OF legislation
which has been supported and en-
.s.rsed far and wide by Organized
rab5r throughout the United States.
Consequently Union workmen who
rxrected any special courtesies by re-
naming silent while the senator was
vaglng his campaign for reelection
last fall, will be disappointed.
The Courier quotes Senator Dun
ap as follows:
If there were limitations in this
amendment up to fourteen years anu
previding that it should apply to
ach occupations as are harmful to
the growing child could subscribe
to if. but not to the sweeping proyls-
.ans of the amendment proposed
The sweeping provisions referred
TO is contained in another paragraph
.f the senator's letter as follows:
An authority (name not givenl
commenting on this amendment very
pertinently says: The powers granted
under the proposed amendment are
lar too inclusive. The Congress shall
AVE power is the gist of the amend
meat, to limit, regulate and prohiblt
the labor of persons under Is years
of age Whether or not young
man ON the eve of his eighteenth
birthday is still child, may be de-
b2table. but it is sufficient that the
amendment carefully avoids the term
child Labor Nor is the grant OF
power limited to occupations that are
',ainful' or dangerous 1t extends
TO occupations paid or unpaid, safe
or dangerous or beneficial; seasonal,
full-time or part time; in the factory,
on the farm, in the home; and all
,uggestions to limit the amendment
we're rejected in Congress"
The senator quotes Secretary OF
Labor Davis as saying: The real
object Of the amendment is to pre-
ven. competition by youths under the
age Of eighteen. He wants to give
to persons above that age the monop-
DIV of all kinds of work"
The senator further says that "the
views of Labor and capital should be
eliminated and we should legislate
for what Is best for the youth of our
hand and the future welfare of our
common country which we should
hand down to them unimpaired."
Inconsistencies in Argument.
Taking the quotation from Mr..
Davis it is apparent to any candid
mind that il is the children of work
ing people who are employed in mills
end fcatories under the age of four
teen years. Who has a better right
to oppose competitive labor than the
parent, if that competition comes
within ones own family? 1t seems
that the senate is taking a decided
interest in a cause that is not pri-
marly his own, but rather the cause
If the employer of child-labor. What
parent would not rather work to sup
port his family than to have two
boys and girls supporting him at
wages much lower than he can afford
to take? Here is a porblem that
Senator Dunlap has overlooked.
Senator Asks Limitations.
Another objection previously quot
Ell places the senator on the employ
er's side of the controversy on the
ground that the grant of Congression-
al power is unlimited.
The senator fails to disclose the
fact that in the amendment there Is
SO far no restrictive legislation de-
iermining the character of child labor
which shall be prohibited. There Is
merely a grant of power which opens
the door for such legislation as the
national Congress may in the future
deem expedient. The senator can
trust the Illinois State Legislature
of Alabama, but he cannot trust the
national Congress to deal with this
question wisely. This is an echo OF
tie propaganda which has apparent.
Is lead to the temporary defeat OF
the amendment.
The senator appears to have Cd
tanned the impression that the nation
a Congress will stop all children
from working Immediately unon pass
age of this amendment to the extent
that farmer cannot employ his son
VINO is under eighteen years OF age.
someone has adroitly slinned one
over on the senator, or he Is thlnk-