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Two Prohibit Child Labor.Iowa and Alabama are the states which prohibited child labor. Maine adopted a law under which women and boys under 16 employed in mills, factories and laundries are not permitted to work more than 54 hours a week. Pennsylvania enacted a statute limiting the hours of labor of children between 14 and 16 years to 51 hours a week. A feature of the law is that all such children employed must go to vocational school at least eight hour3 a week, which must be computed in the 51 hours, thus making the actual working hours 43. It further provides that no messengers under 21 years can be employed by a telegraph. telephone or messenger company after 8 ocloek at night, and that no child under 12 can sell newspapers. A statute along similar lines, fixing at 10 years the minimum age of newsboys and other minors engaged in street trades, was adopted by California. Tn North Carolina, bills designed to enable officials better to enforce the present child labor lawsfailed to pass.■ 1. — ^
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El Paso Herald
El Paso, Texas, US
Wed, Jun 23, 1915
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