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Mr. NOLAN. Not only to the committee, but to Congress.

Mr. PALMER. Yes.

Mr. HAWLEY. The extent of the employment of children and their ages will be very important also.

Mr. PALMER. Yes; the facts. The national child-labor committee, which is represented here by Dr. McKelway, is anxious to lay the foundation for this kind of legislation by the presentation of some data which they have collected. When can he take that up? If you will permit the suggestion, I think if you gave public notice that is all that is necessary. If you have the newspapers print the statement that the national child-labor committee and the child-labor associations of the various States will be heard on such and such a day and all other persons interested, you will find that all who are really interested will turn up.

(Thereupon the committee adjourned.)

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HEARINGS

BEFORE

THE COMMITTEE ON LABOR

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

SIXTY-THIRD CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

H. R. 12292

A BILL TO PREVENT INTERSTATE COMMERCE IN THE
PRODUCTS OF CHILD LABOR, AND FOR
OTHER PURPOSES

MARCH 9, 1914

WASHINGTON

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

1914

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CHILD-LABOR BILL.

COMMITTEE ON LABOR,

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

Monday, March 9, 1914.

The committee was called to order at 11 a. m., Hon. David J. Lewis (chairman) presiding.

STATEMENT OF HON. A. MITCHELL PALMER, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA.

Mr. PALMER. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, this is the day fixed for the hearing on bill H. R. 12292, to prevent interstate commerce in the products of child labor, and for other purposes.

At the former hearing I made a statement, which has been printed in the hearings of the committee, covering in a general way the purposes of the bill, and very briefly discussed the constitutional phase of the question, which was the matter, I think, that interested the committee most. I stated at that time I would only make a general statement, and later would present to the committee certain winesses who would be able to present to it facts which would sustain the proposition that child labor does exist in this country as a national evil, nation wide in its extent-facts which, in our judgment, would support the proposition that this committee ought to take cognizance of that evil and make an effort to remedy it by Federal legislation. I stated also that we would be able to present an argument upon the constitutional phase of the question. I wish to say that these witnesses are here and certain volunteers, who are interested in this matter, and they are very much more able to discuss the legal phases of it than I am, and I shall ask your committee to hear them. First, I would like to present Mr. Owen R. Lovejoy.

STATEMENT OF MR. OWEN R. LOVEJOY, SECRETARY OF THE NATIONAL CHILD LABOR COMMITTEE.

Mr. LOVEJOY. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, I am here representing the national child labor committee, a volunteer organization which has been in existence nearly 10 years and has for its purpose the studying of child-labor conditions in various parts of the country, the drafting of bills, conferring with different State committees and organizations, campaigning to get these bills through in the different States, cooperation with the departments of factory inspection, labor commission, educational authorities, and others in the effort to get the laws enforced when they are enacted.

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