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...national drive against Child Labor. Last week Florence Kelley's grave at Brooklin, Me. was more than a year old but in Washington her cause marched on to score its biggest triumph. Cotton textile manufacturers were appearing before Industrial Recovery Administrator Johnson to get their work & wages code approved. Labor was pounding them hard for proposing to pay their employes too little ($10-$11 per week), work them too long (40 hours per week). Even the President of the U. S. last May had pointed a damning finger at them for using children in their mills. Administrator Johnson bluntly...
...Pennsylvania last May Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, wife of the Governor, took to the picket line as a protest against the exploitation of young girls in Northampton and Allentown shirt factories. Employers seduced 15-year-olds-or fired them. When a plant was fined for violating the State working code, the boss would take the fine out of the pay of his child laborers whose use had got him in trouble. Canning and food packing compose another industry which will have to purge itself of child labor when it brings its code to Washington for approval. Children are extensively used...
Despite the amendment's spurt in the last six months it looked last week as though Mrs. Kelley's goal, once so remote and so futile, was destined to be achieved faster and better by voluntary code agreements in Washington under the pressure of an emergency than by the cumbersome constitutional method. If so. the children of the nation can thank the Depression for setting them free...
...aerial advertising should be prohibited in the country and in towns of less than 20.000, permitted elsewhere. Son-in-law Harewood was strongly against any skywriting at all. On the subject of billboards and outdoor advertising. Lord Harewood was optimistic. Five years ago the Scapa Society drew up a code for outdoor advertisers, which was largely being lived up to. "The worst offenders," said he. ''are not the great billposting concerns, which appreciate that advertising which arouses strong criticism is bad business. . . . The Society has long been gravely concerned by the increasing disfigurement of picturesque country villages...
Cotton Textiles. "We're gonna do this job in a goldfish bowl. We'll listen to everybody before we get through," promised General Johnson, referring to public hearings on all codes before their submission to the President for final approval. First "goldfish" to go on exhibit in the Washington bowl was the cotton textile industry. Week before a cotton textile code had been turned in to General Johnson. He thought the industry had done "a very beautiful job" even though its minimum wage fell $4.40 per week short of General Johnson's own standard and its maximum...