TO HELP THE CHILDREN

Maoriland Worker, Volume 10, Issue 447, 1 October 1919, Page 6

TO HELP THE CHILDREN

The problem of child labor is much more complicated in the United States than it is iiere or in Australia. Iv the Southern Stales there are whol 0 industries that exploit children in a .shocking manner, aid until neatly boys v<id girls \vorked in wdin.rv circumsti'i'tes ten and twelve hour shifts. ?.; , rth Carolina, ou c ol the Southern S f ~tes where the cotton industry <:ont vis the legislature, has had a long tight t<» get any redress. At last, th e State legislature passed a drastic law levying a 30 per cent, tax on nefc profits of all mills and workshops that employed children u__ee than eighfc hours daily, liven this long-needed reform was bitterly opposed by the big business interests. !f was taken to the Courts, and a Judge declared the law unconstitutional. But Preside-. Wilson signed tho Act, aM<l tho U.S. Federal Internal Revenue Commissioners have notified the companies that they consider tho law to bo in operation, and that they intend to ignore the Judge's decision. Instead of bowing before the storm, these Yankee child murderers are brazenly attempting to get the case to the Federal Supreme Court. They prefer to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars rather than accept a most just, -inmane and necessary piece of reform.