The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-17
HISTORY OF THE FEDERAL CHILD
LABOR AMENDMENT

LABOR AMENDMENT
Complying with the promise to glVel
readers of this newspaper summary OIL
the history of the proposed federal child
labor amendment, The TimeS-NewS here
with presents the same. This record was
prepared by Sterling E. Edmunds of St.
Louis Mr.. EdmundS is st. Louis lawyer,
member of the American Bar ASsOcia-
ton and many other professional and pa
triotic organizations of national scope.
The facts stated in this article were taken
largely from the Senate report and House
hearings on the amendment from the Con-
gressional Record and from an affidavit
submitted to the Senate by Senator Thomas
F. Bayard of Delaware. This record of the
attempt to place this amendment in the
federal constitution stands unrefuted by
friends of the proposal If you are pa
triotic American and want the truth about
this amendment, read this statement of the
case against it by Mr.. Edmunds.
The so-called Child Labor amendment was draft
ed in 1923, by Mrs. Florence Kelley Wischnewetz-
Ky, in collaboration with Misses Julia Lathrop,
Grace Abbott and Louise Strong This was the
same group who lObbied before Congress from
1905 to 1912 for the creation of federal Chill
dren'S Bureau in the Labor Department
All of the women were residents of Jane Adj
dams hull House settlement IN chicago, which
has lent itself as a forum for I. W. W, and Com
munstic agitation. Mrs. Wischnewetzky. or Mrs.
Florence Kelley she preferred to be known af-
ter divorcing her Russian husband, was the most
jealous, intelligent and energetic woman apostle of
MARKHAM socialism who promoted the
in the United States. She was wholly sincere in
believing that only under socialism could we find
Utopia. That, was inculcated in her the friend,
associate and translatresS of the works of Friede
rich Engels. particularly Condition of the Work
ing Glasses in England in 1S44.' and Origin of
the Family Private Property and the State" The
latter work not only breaches communism but is a
violent arragnment of homogeneous marriage as
the main obstacle to ushering in the Socialists
ideal state. EngeS was the rich patron who sup
ported Karl Marx and finished and published
Marks works.
Mrs Kelley was in close association with Engels
from 1884 10 1887. in Germany, after which she
returned to the United States, with instructions
from EngelS to the best methods for introduc-
ing socialism among US. Many of such letters of
instruction are now in the custody of the New
York Public Librarn. In one OF them Engeis tells
her:
The less it SOCIALISM, is knocked into the
Americans from without and the more they
test it by experience the deeper it will
90 into their flesh and blood
In 1894 she graduated in law at Northwestern
University. In 1897, she went to Berlin and be-
came the editor of socialist newspaper. 1t was
at that time that she married the Russian. In
1898. she returned to the United States and be-
came tireless organizer of women and men, whom
she used until the day of her death in 1882 in her
lobbying activities before Congress for socalistic
legislation, which would sink "into our flesh and
blood"
The organizations founded or used by her, were:
Hull House Settlement, Chicago, of which she
resident
The Intercollegiate Socialist League-now the
League for Industrial Democracy-chief promoter
of socialism in our schools and colleges, of which
Mrs. Kelley president
Women's International League for Peace and
Freedom, international pacifists.
National American Women's S'ffrage Assoca-
of ne
National Consumers League, of which she was
General Secretary in 1899.
National Child Labor Committee, of which she
was founder and trustee
The National League of Women Voters
American Association for Labor Legislation, pro-
meters of compulsory health insurance.
The Women's Joint Congressional Committee
This was the committee of lobbyists, of which Mrs.
Kelley was the chief which put over the ChiEdien's
Bureau. Assisting Mrs. Kelley in this lobbying
Miss Lillian D. Valid pacifst, head of the Henry
Street Nurses Settlement, New York City
Jane Adams of Hull House Settlement, Chi
Owen D. Lovejoy, socialist, Secretary of the
National Child Labor Committee.
Miss Julia Lathrop, resident of Hull House Set
Element
Miss Grace Abbott, resident Of Hull House Set,
Element .'~ ..
Miss Anna Louise Strong chief American press
agent for the Moscow Communists, organizer of
the natonalzed Children's Colonies for the Soviet
Government, and today editor of the Moscow News
and recently lecturing in America on Communism
Sh els now in Russia. 49,
When Congress yielded and created the Chill
drens Bureau Mrs. Kelley wanted no job for her
self-social revolution was her job-but she plant
ed her eO-wOrkers from Hull House in the Bureau
The Communist Miss Strong, became the propa
pandist of the Bureau in charge of "Child Welfare
Exhibits" under Miss Lathrop and Miss Abbott
This bureau was given an appropriation of S29,
900 IN 1912, and its activities were limited in