The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-04-17
"CHILD LABOR" AMENDMENT RATI-
FICATION WILL BE DEFEATED

Since the first of the year seven States
have rejected the so-called child labor
amendment to the federal Constitution
and no State has ratified. When the
amendment was first submitted ten years
ago it was rejected by more than enough
States to kill it but the Communist crowd
seldom quits a fight, so the supporters OF
the measure accepted the past year as an
opportune time to resume the tight Tor
ratification, with the result that fourteen
States ratified. In spite of that fact, IL
seems the tide has again definitely turned
against the measure and that it can be de-
feated. It is of the utmost Importance that
it be defeated, as it is one of the most lar
reaching and dangerous attempts ever
made by the radicals of the country to un-
dermine the social order and pull down
the foundations of the government.
Some of the history of this attempt to
vest control of all persons IN the country
under Is years of age in federal govern
ment bureau is given by The Carollnlan, a
magazine published in Charlotte. That his
tory is as follows:
.1The so-called sChild Labor Amendment is not
a child labor amendment, but perncious legislation
with sugar-coating of child labor to arouse SYM
pathy and befog reason. 1t grants congress the
right to vest in the Children's Bureau the control
of the education and training of the youth OF our
land, and aims direct blow at our states rights,
the freedom of the home, and denominational edu-
cationar institutions.
''The amendment was drafted in 1923, by MIS-
Florence Kelly Wischnewetsky, In collaboration
with Misses Julia Lathrop, Grace Abbott and LOU
;se Strong and through their persistence the pro-
posa to submit it to the states for ratincaton was
passed by the House April &c. 1924. and by the
Senate June 2, 1924. We'wonder If the pugnacious
persistence of the above disciples of Karl Marx
caused Congress to pass the buck to the states,
thinking that in its dangerous form the states
would, not be fools enough to ratify it, but
through an extensive, educational campaign 3s
Legislatures which met in 1924 and '25 rejected it.
After nine years Of coma it reappears in the new
adornment of necessary. to recovery, and being
capable of wearing variety of Aimsy decorations
is the most insdious piece of legislation that has
yet passed Congress.
,"The four women were residents of Hull House
Settlement, in Chicago which has lent itself as a
forum for l.. w.. w. and Communistic agitation
Mrs. Wischnewetsky, Mrs. Kelley, as she pre-
ferred to be known after divorcing her Russian
husband, was the most intelligent, Jealous and en-
ergetic woman apostle of MARKHAM socialism who
ever promoted the cause in the United States.
From 1884 to 1887 Mrs. Kelley was closely asso-
clated with Friedrich Engels, the rich patron who
supported Karl Marx and finished and published
Marks works. She then returned to the United
States from Germany, with instructions from En-
gels as to the best method of introducing socialism
among US and began, her work by lecturing before
college women. In 1894 she graduated in law at
Northwestern University and in 1897 she went to
Berlin to become. the editor of socialist news
paper. 1t was at that time that she married. the
Russian. A year later she returned to this country
and became a treless organizer of women and
men, whom she used in her lobbying activities be-
fore Congress for her socialistc legislation, which
would sink into our flesh and blood
This ceaseless pressure upon each session OF
Congress bore frnit in: 1912, when the childrens
Bureau was created with an appropriation of
$4,000 and it's activities were limited in the act
to- 'gather statistics Actually, they gathered no
statistics, but immediately began to work for more
money and power and in two years had. succeeded
in raising the appropriation to- 100000, which,
enabled them to circulate propaganda on the
wretchedness of our child welfare. The program
contemplated ultimately gaining, national control
of child education, child labor. child welfare and
if necessary for child naturalization to remove
the children from the pernicious influence of the
family and place them in soviet colonies, under
the beneficial influence of Communist schools
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