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Beveridge Urges Nationwide Child Labor Prohibition
Indiana Senator Albert Beveridge delivers a sweeping address in the Senate urging a federal ban on interstate commerce of goods produced by child labor. He cites census data and affidavits, details abuses in factories mines and mills, and argues only a national remedy can stop the degeneration of the citizenry.
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United States
Senate
Albert J. Beveridge
Indiana
Beveridge
John Spargo
Atlanta
Paterson
N. J
Marie
Oxford
Maryland
Spargo
Glassboro
Sarge
Florence Kelley
Jimmy
Ealing
Mr. Lovejoy
Owen R. Lovejoy
National Child Labor Committee
Michael Lutosky
John McLaughlin
John Thomas
Yars
Jos Bartovsky
Peter Swambury
John van Vorst
Alabama City
Republic
New York
Felix Adier
Congress
Supreme Court
Agricultural Department
Va. Marigold
Cruthers
Kentucky
Marshall
Gibbons Ve. Ogden
New York Harbor
Supreme Court of the United States
Justice Story