Selected Articles on Child LaborEdna Dean Bullock Wilson, 1911 - 196 pages |
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A. J. McKelway adult age limit age of fourteen American Academy Annals boys breaker breaker boy Canneries cent Charities Charity Organization Society chil Child Labor Committee child labor law Child Labor Legislation children employed coal coal breakers cotton mills dren earnings Edwin Markham effective eight employer employment of children enactment enforcement England evil fact factory inspectors father Felix Adler Florence Kelley girls glass factories grade half-time Illinois investigation licensed little children living Lovejoy machinery manufacturing ment mines moral mother muscles National Child Labor newsboys night number of children Ohio Owen parents Pennsylvania period physical present problem prohibited protection public schools pupils reform relief Samuel Slater scholarships social society Southern Cotton Mills Street Trades tenement thirteen tion toil town truancy truant officers twelve wage week West Virginia workers York York City young
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Page 191 - ... establishment, proof of the giving of such notice and of such failure to produce and file such evidence shall be prima facie evidence in any prosecution brought for a violation of this article that such child is under sixteen years of age and is unlawfully employed.
Page 190 - It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to employ any child under fourteen years of age in any business or service whatever, during any part of the term during which the public schools of the district in which the child resides are in session.
Page 193 - English language and that in his opinion the child is fourteen years of age or upwards and has reached the normal development of a child of its age, and is in sound health and is physically able to perform the work which it intends to do.
Page 193 - No person under the age of sixteen years shall be employed or suffered or permitted to work at any gainful occupation more than forty-eight hours in any one week, nor more than eight hours in any one day...
Page 194 - A failure to produce to a truant officer or inspector of factories any employment certificate or list required by this act shall be prima facie evidence of the illegal employment of any person whose employment certificate is not produced or whose name is not so listed.
Page 193 - The school record required by this article shall be signed by the principal or chief executive officer of the school which such child has attended and shall be furnished on demand to a child entitled thereto or to the board, department or commissioner of health.
Page 192 - A duly attested transcript of the birth certificate filed according to law with a registrar of vital statistics, or other officer charged with the duty of recording births, which certificate shall be prima facie evidence of the age of such child.
Page 192 - The school record of such child properly filled out and signed as provided in this article. (2) A passport or duly attested transcript of the certificate of birth or baptism or other religious record, showing the date and place of birth of such child.
Page 3 - As necessity was a taskmaster over them, so they were forced to be such, not only to their servants, but in a sort, to their dearest children...
Page 194 - Every employer shall post in a conspicuous place in every room where such persons are employed a printed notice stating the number of hours...