I. Sunday afternoon, March 15th, 3.30 o'clock.

Mass Meeting in Lafayette Square.

Prayer-ARCHBISHOP BLENK, New Orleans, La.

Addresses-JANE ADDAMS, DR. FELIX ADLER, GOVERNOR LUTHER
HALL (invited), SENATOR ROBERT L. OWEN, JUDGE JOSEPH A.
MCCULLOUGH, Greenville, S. C.

Morning and evening addresses on Child Labor in various churches.

II. Monday morning, March 16th, 9.30 o'clock.

1. Organization and registration of delegates.

2.

3.

Address of Welcome. MAYOR BEHRMAN, of New Orleans, La.
Response-DR. FELIX ADLER, Chairman, National Child Labor
Committee, New York.

4. Review of Present Needs and Activities-OWEN R. LOVEJOY,
General Secretary, National Child Labor Committee, New
York.

5. Publicity and Progress-ANNA ROCHESTER, Special Agent, National Child Labor. Committee, New York.

6. Reports from State Committees.

III. Monday afternoon, March 16th, 2 o'clock.

2.

1. Relative Merits of Different Systems of Enforcement.
European and American Methods of Training for Factory In-
spectors-HERSCHEL H. JONES, Special Agent, National
Child Labor Committee, New York.

3. Woman's Place in Law Enforcement-MISS ANNA HERKNER,
Assistant Chief, Maryland Bureau of Statistics and Informa-
tion, Baltimore.

4. Enforcing Officials and the Courts-MORNAY WILLIAMS, Chairman New York Child Labor Committee, New York.

5. Development of Law Administration in the South-Dr. W. H. OATES, Chief Factory Inspector of Alabama, Montgomery (invited).

7.

6. Co-operation between Juvenile Courts and Labor Inspectors--Judge
George Addams, Juvenile Court, Cleveland, Ohio (invited).
Adjusting Factory Work to an Eight-Hour Law for Children.
8. Eight-Hour Day for Children in Massachusetts Factories-
RICHARD K. CONANT, Secretary, Massachusetts Child Labor
Committee, Boston (read by title.)

9. Mississippi Campaign for Law Enforcement-A. T. STOVALL,
Member of the Committee on Uniform Laws of the Ameri-
can Bar Association (invited).

IV. Monday evening, March 16th, 8.30 o'clock.

Reception given by Era Club of New Orleans at Isaac Delgado Mu-
seum of Art.

Addresses-Dr. Felix ADLER, MRS. Florence Kelley, MRS. DESHA
BRECKINRIDGE (invited), DR. SAMUEL MCCUNE LINDSAY, Jo-
SEPHINE J. ESCHENBRENNER.

V. Tuesday morning, March 17th, 9.30 o'clock.

Work Permits, the Basis of Enforcement.

1. Physical Examination of Applicants-DR. S. JOSEPHINE BAKER, Chief, Department of Child Hygiene, Board of Health, New York (invited).

2. Which Standard-Age or Physical Development?

3. Sixteen Years of Childhood for Ohio Girls-Miss ELLA HAAS,

State Factory Inspector, Dayton, Ohio.

4. Many Inspectors or Heavy Fines?-J. D. BECK, Industrial Commission of Wisconsin, Madison.

5.

The Twilight Zone between Childhood and Youth-HARRY M.
BREMER, Special Agent, National Child Labor Committee,
New York.

6. Proper Issuance of Work Permits-GEORGE A. HALL, Secretary,
New York Child Labor Committee.

Luncheon by Era Club and Woman's Club to all speakers and delegates.

VII. Tuesday evening, March 17th, 8 o'clock.

1. The Relation of the Federal Government to the States in the Regulation of Child Labor-SENATOR ROBERT L. OWEN SECRETARY WILLIAM B. WILSON (invited), OWEN R. LOVEJOY. 2. Necessity of Controlling Social Evils by Federal Law-HOMER FOLKS, Secretary, State Charities Aid Association, New York. Protection for American Children-MRS. FLORENCE KELLEY, Secretary, National Consumers' League, New York.

3.

4. Law without Enforcement-DR. A. J. MCKELWAY, Secretary for Southern States, National Child Labor Committee, Washington, D. C.

5.

DR. SAMUEL MCCUNE LINDSAY, Professor of Social Legislation,
Columbia University.

VIII. Wednesday morning, March 18th, 9.30 o'clock.

1.

2.

The Child and the Home.

The Farm Home-Real and Ideal. G. R. HIGHTOWER, Pres.
Miss. Agricultural College (invited).

Tasks in the Tenements-LEWIS W. HINE, Special Agent, National
Child Labor Committee, New York.

3. Child Labor and Family Dependence-MARCUS C. FAGG, Chil-
dren's Home Society, Jacksonville, Florida (invited).

4.

Ideal Child Labor in the Home-PROF. JESSIE P. RICH, Home
Economics Department, University of Texas.

5. Child Labor Reform in Alabama-MRS. W. L. MURDOCH, Bir

mingham.

6. Neglected Childhood and Mental Defectives-ALEXANDER JOHNSON, Vineland, N. J.

IX. Wednesday afternoon, March 18th, 2 o'clock.

Work and School.

1. Agricultural Labor and School Attendance-HARRY M. BREMER. 2. When Should Wage Earning Begin?-R. A. BACHMAN, VicePresident, Edison Storage Battery Company, Orange, N. J. (invited).

3. Heckling the Schools-DR. E. N. CLOPPER, Secretary for Northern States, National Child Labor Committee, New York.

4. Medical Inspection of Children at Work.

5. Co-operation between Factory Inspectors and the Schools— H. O. SLUSS, Superintendent of Schools, Covington, Kentucky (invited).

6. Influence of Child Labor Laws upon Education.

7. Co-operation of the Schools in Reducing Child Labor-PROF. FRANK LEAVITT, University of Chicago.

XI. Wednesday afternoon, March 18th.

Children's Meeting.

XII. Wednesday evening, March 18th, 8 o'clock.

Child Labor and the Public.

1. High Cost of Child Labor (Stereopticon Lecture)-LEWIS W. HINE.

2. Child Labor and the Standard of Living-HON. JOHN KEEGAN, Indianapolis, Ind. (invited).

3. MRS. JESSIE Wilson Sayre, Washington, D. C. (invited).

4.

The Last Excuse of the One Business which Opposes Child Labor Legislation in the South-WILEY H. SWIFT, Greensboro, N. C. 5. Child Labor on Pacific Coast-HARVEY H. DURYEE, Chairman Los Angeles Child Labor Committee (invited).

6. A Business View of Child Labor-ADOLPH LEWISOHN, Member of Board of Trustees, National Child Labor Committee, New York.

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND CHILD LABOR

By OWEN R. LOVEJOY.

The introduction of the Palmer Child Labor Bill in Congress on January 26th marks a new stage in the campaign for child labor reform in America. This bill, drawn by the National Child Labor Committee, is the result of careful and mature deliberation by the Committee and of extensive correspondence with prominent lawyers, state and federal officials and others interested in this great problem.

The National Child Labor Committee has been from time to time solicited to give its endorsement to various pending child labor bills, but on careful analysis it has been unable to do so either on account of their limited scope or because they did not seem designed to control the situation in the most effective way.

The Palmer Child Labor Bill, known in Congress as H. R. 12292 is brief and clear and reads as follows:

A BILL.

To Prevent Interstate Commerce in the Products of Child
Labor and for other Purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled.

On and after January 1, 1915, no person, partnership, association or corporation or any agent or employee thereof manufacturing, producing or dealing in the products of any mine or quarry in which children under 16 years of age are employed or permitted to work at any time; or of any mill, cannery, workshop, factory or manufacturing establishment in which children under 14 years of age are employed or permitted to work at any time or in which children between 14 and 16 years of age are employed or permitted to work more than eight hours in any day or more than six days in any week, or after the hour of 7 P. M., or before the hour of 7 A. M., of any day, shall ship or offer or deliver for shipment such products in interstate commerce.

SECTION 2. That the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Labor and the Attorney General shall constitute a Board to make and