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New Effort for Federal Child Labor Ban
Prohibitions of Administration Wage-Hour Bill
Abolition of the evil of child labor was declared by President Roosevelt, in his message to Congress on May 24, to be a primary aim of new federal legislation to regulate labor conditions in interstate industry. Holding that “a self-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor,” the President urged that goods produced by the labor of children be considered “contraband,” and be barred from the channels of interstate ...