The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-15
THE MOST RADICAL AND DANGER
Gus CHANGE EVER PROPOSEDNIN
FEDERAL CONSTITUTION - -

The so-called federal child labor amend
ment to the Constitution of the United
States is to be passed on again by the
North Carolina Legislature.
AS The 'Times-News and other newspa-
pers, and many of the foremost citizens OF
the country, have time and again pointed
out, this is one of the most drastic and dam
gerous constitutional changes ever pro-
posed by radical tinkerers with the funda-
mental law of the country.
After years of bulldozing and browbeat-
ing of the Congress this amendment was
finally sent on its devious way to the Leg
islatures of the States. This pressure cam
paign on Congress was waged by many of
the country's leading radicals, including a
number with those understanding, sweet
smelling names which identify communists,
anarchists and other deep-dyed would-be
wreckers of government and our American
social order.
The story of how this proposed amend
ment was forced through Congress and OF
how it has been forced through the Legis-
Iatures of % States is one of the most ar
resting stories in the history of the strug-
gle to preserve individual and family free
dom in this country. The Times-News has
printed some of this story in the past and
proposes to print more of it in the imme-
diate future.
If majority of North Carolinians wish
to join the movement to fasten this incubus
of communistic tyranny upon their eoun-
try, they should do so with their eyes open
and with the full knowledge of what they
are doing. In so far as possible this news
paper will give the public the facts and
truth.
Again we call the attention of North
Carolinians to the fact that this thing is
not child labor amendment, designed to
prevent the exploitation of children in fac
tories, mines or other hazardous employ
ment, but is a proposal to 'limit, regulate
and prohibit the labor of persons under 1S
years of age" ...s
Note that the word employment is not
used in this proposal. The courts have held
that employment is the service rendered
by persons employed by other persons
for wages or salaries. This question was
fought out in Congress before the amend
ment was adopted and effort was made to
amend the proposal by using the word en-
ployment instead of labor. This point was
bitterly contested by the radical sponsors
of the proposal and they won their point.
If adopted the amendment can be used
(and will be ultimately usedD by Congress
to control all labor of persons under 1S
years of age. That includes labor on farms
and in the homes. 1t has been neld by
some of the country's ablest thinkers and
constitutional lawyers that the powers ex-
ercised under this proposal would extend
even to the raising and education of chill
dren.
In other words II is bald attempt by
anarchists and communists and other god
less radicals to communize or nationalize
American children. .... LIZ -
The Times-News has no hesitancy in
saying that it is an attempt to destroy the
homes of this country, to give an immoral
and communistic horde of bureaucrats con-
troll of the lives and the labor of the chill
dren and young people of this country who
are under Is years of age. These facts
were fully established in the long fight
made in Congress over this amendment, led
by the Bowwowskys, Bullovitches and Bum
kerinskis of the worst radical groups in
the country. ........ .,.. e.
The Times-News will present the proof.
If you are patriotic, citizen and want to