Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the National Child Labor Committee, Volumen4 |
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... public schools are not in session . This provision until recently prevailed in Maine and was the cause of much difficulty in the enforcement of the law , children frequently going to work during the vacation of the public schools and ...
... public schools are not in session . This provision until recently prevailed in Maine and was the cause of much difficulty in the enforcement of the law , children frequently going to work during the vacation of the public schools and ...
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... public schools must be the particular kind of intelligence which the workingman should have . Of late this theory has been sharply questioned , and the exponents of industrial education have brought forward the claim that intellectual ...
... public schools must be the particular kind of intelligence which the workingman should have . Of late this theory has been sharply questioned , and the exponents of industrial education have brought forward the claim that intellectual ...
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... public schools of our State - the percentage of attendance of the negro children is larger . How much longer will the senseless fear of forcing ( ? ) the negroes into school deter us from requiring an acceptance by the chil- dren of ...
... public schools of our State - the percentage of attendance of the negro children is larger . How much longer will the senseless fear of forcing ( ? ) the negroes into school deter us from requiring an acceptance by the chil- dren of ...
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... public school fund , and schools of from three to five months in duration , but to establish schools in large part paid for out of the funds of the corporation and maintained for from seven to ten months in the year ? In conclusion , do ...
... public school fund , and schools of from three to five months in duration , but to establish schools in large part paid for out of the funds of the corporation and maintained for from seven to ten months in the year ? In conclusion , do ...
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... school for at least three months in the year . Compulsory educational laws have not been adopted in any of the Southern ... public schools between the ages of six and four- teen for a considerable period each year is not compulsory . But ...
... school for at least three months in the year . Compulsory educational laws have not been adopted in any of the Southern ... public schools between the ages of six and four- teen for a considerable period each year is not compulsory . But ...
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A. J. McKelway age limit American Atlanta attend school average birth boys census cent certificates Chairman child labor bill Child Labor Committee child labor law child labor legislation childhood children under sixteen civilization compulsory education law conference Consumers cotton mill District duty Edgar Gardner Murphy educa effect employed employees employment of children enacted enforcement England enrollment establishment evil fact factory inspector Felix Adler fifteen Florence Kelley fourteen Georgia girls Hoke Smith human ignorant illiteracy illiterate industrial inspection interest investigation Jamestown Exposition Kate Barnard League Legislature manufacturers ment Mississippi moral mother National Child Labor National Committee newsboys night number of children Ohio organization parents permits physical population present protection public schools Rhode Island Secretary secure session social society South Carolina Southern cotton mills teacher Tennessee textile tion total number twelve wages welfare women workers York City
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Página 26 - The limitations which this statute places upon her contractual powers, upon her right to agree with her employer as to the time she shall labor, are not imposed solely for her benefit, but also largely for the benefit of all.
Página 11 - We emphasized the consideration that "woman's physical structure and the performance of maternal functions place her at a disadvantage in the struggle for subsistence...
Página 11 - That woman's physical structure and the performance of maternal functions place her at a disadvantage in the struggle for subsistence is obvious. This is especially true when the burdens of motherhood are upon her. Even when they are not, by abundant testimony of the medical fraternity continuance for a long time on her feet at work, repeating this from day to day, tends to injurious effects upon the body, and, as healthy mothers are essential to vigorous offspring, the physical well-being of woman...
Página 27 - The two sexes differ in structure of body, in the functions to be performed by each, in the amount of physical strength, in the capacity for long-continued labor, particularly when done standing, the influence of vigorous health upon the future well-being of the race, the self-reliance which enables one to assert full rights, and in the capacity to maintain the struggle for subsistence. This difference justifies a difference in legislation and upholds that which is designed to compensate for some...
Página 124 - No child under fourteen years of age shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work in or in connection with any factory, workshop, mine, mercantile establishment, store, business office, telegraph office, restaurant, hotel, apartment house, or in the distribution or transmission of merchandise or messages. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to employ any child under fourteen years of age in any business or service...
Página 103 - Aid the dawning, tongue and pen; Aid it, hopes of honest men ; Aid it, paper — aid it, type — Aid it, for the hour is ripe, And our earnest must not slacken Into...
Página 18 - ... would have been non-existent for us. Without the circumstances of infancy we might have become formidable among animals through sheer force of sharp-wittedness. But, except for these circumstances, we should never have comprehended the meaning of such phrases as " self-sacrifice " or
Página 50 - ... is not the most scientific method of arriving at the truth. And yet when the census bureau compiles statistics gained in that way, the statement becomes an authority. Fortunately for the cause of the children, a recent study of the population tables of 1900 gives the result of that house to house canvass, as to the number of children, ten to fifteen years of age, engaged in particular industries.
Página 55 - In 1810, with the changed conditions resulting from immigration, it was found impossible to enforce the law without important additions, amounting in reality to a set of factory laws, forbidding the employment of children under fourteen years of age who have not attended school for at least three months in the year.
Página 57 - ... Considering the white population alone, the percentage of illiterates in the South Atlantic division in 1870 was 23.5, and this had been reduced to 11.5 per cent in 1900. In the South Central states the percentages were 23.4 in 1870 and n.8 per cent in 1900. For the United States the percentages were 11.5 in 1870 and 6.2 in 1900. The South, despite the reductions made, is still in point of average literacy behind all the other sections of the Union, and far behind such countries of Europe as...