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U. S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR CHILDREN’S BUREAU JULIA C, LATHROP. Chief Industrial Series No. I, Bureau Publication No. 10 : : Separate No. 55 CHILD LABOR LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES https://fraser.stlouisfed.org Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis & FEDERAL SEPTEMBER, 1916 W ASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1916 PUBLICATIONS OF THE CHILDREN’S BUREAU Annual Reports: First Annual Report of the Chief, Children’s Bureau, to the Secretary of Labor, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1913. 20 pp. 1914. Second Annual Report of the Chief, Children’s Bureau, to the Secretary of Labor, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1914. 19 pp. 1914. Third Annual Report of the Chief, Children’s Bureau, to the Secretary of Labor, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1915. 26 pp. 1915. Care of Children Series: No. 1. Prenatal Care, by Mrs. Max West. 41 pp. 3d ed. 1913. Bureau publication No. 4. No. 2. Infant Care, by Mrs. Max West. 87 pp. 1914. Bureau publication No. 8. Dependent, Defective, and Delinquent Classes Series: No. 1. Laws Relating to Mothers’ Pensions in the United States, Denmark, and New Zealand. 102 pp. 1914. Bureau publication No. 7. No. 2. Mental Defectives in the District of Columbia: A brief description of local conditions and the need for custodial care and training. 39 pp. 1915. Bureau publication No. 13. Infant Mortality Series: No. 1. Baby-saving Campaigns: A preliminary report on what American -cities are doing to prevent infant mortality. 93 pp. 4th ed. 1914. Bureau publication No. 3. No. 2. New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children: An example of the methods of baby-saving work in small towns and rural districts. 19 pp. 1914. Bureau publication No. 6. No. 3. Infant Mortality: Results of a field study in* Johnstown, Pa., based on births in one calendar year, by Emma Duke. 93 pp. and 9 ppl illds. 1915. Bureau publication No. 9. No. 4. Infant Mortality in Montclair, N. J . : A study of infant mortality in a suburban community. 36 pp. 1915. Bureau publication No. 11. No. 5. A Tabular Statement of Infant-welfare Work by Public and Private Agencies in the United States. 114 pp. 1916. Bureau publication No. 16. Industrial Series: No. 1. Child Labor Legislation in the United States, by Helen L. Sumner and Ella A. Merritt. '1131 pp. 1915. Bureau publication No. 10. Analytical tables of laws of all States and text of laws of each State. No. 2. Administration of Child Labor Laws: Part I. Employment Certificate System, Connecticut. 69 pp. 2 charts. 1915. Bureau publication No. 12. Part II. Employment Certificate System, New York. — pp. 3 charts. 1916. Bureau publication No. 17. Noi 3. List of References on Child Labor. 161 pp. 1916. Bureau publica tion No. 18. miscellaneous Series: No. 1. The Children’s Bureau: A circular containing the text of the law establishing the bureau and a brief outline of the plans for immediate work. 5 pp. 1912. Bureau publication No. 1. No. 2. Birth Registration: An aid in preserving the lives and rights of children. 20 pp. 3d ed. 1914. Bureau publication No. 2. No. 3. Handbook of Federal Statistics of Children: Number of children in the United States, with their sex, age, race, nativity, parentage, and geographic distribution. 106" pp. 2d ed. 1914; Bureau publication No. 5. No. 4. Child-Welfare Exhibits: Types and preparation, by Anna Louise Strong, Ph. D. 58 pp. -1915. Bureau publication No. 14. No. 5. Baby Week Campaigns. Suggestions for communities of various sizes. 64 pp. 1915. Bureau publication No. 15. 2 60032°— 16 https://fraser.stlouisfed.org Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis [P ublic —No. 249—64 th C ongress .] [H. R. 8234.] AN ACT To prevent interstate cbtnmerce in the products of child labor, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That no producer, manufacturer, or dealer shall ship or deliver for shipment in interstate or foreign commerce any article or commodity the product of any mine or quarry, situated in the United States, in which within thirty days prior to the time of the removal of such product there from children under the age of sixteen years have been employed or permitted to work, or any article or commodity the product of any mill, cannery, workshop, factory, or manufacturing establishment, situated in the United States, in which within thirty days prior to the removal of such product therefrom children under the age of fourteen years have been employed or permitted to work, or children between the ages of fourteen years and sixteen years have been employed or permitted to work more than eight hours in any day, or more than six days in any week, or after the hour of seven o’clock post meridian, or before the hour of six o’clock antemeridian: Provided, That a prosecution and conviction of a defendant for the shipment or delivery for ship ment of any article or commodity under the conditions herein prohibited shall be a bar to any further prosecution against the same defendant for shipments or deliveries for shipment of any such article or commodity before the begin ning of said prosecution. Sec. 2. That the Attorney General, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Secretary of Labor shall constitute a board to make and publish from time to time uniform rules and regulations for carrying out the provisions of this act. Secj: 3. That for the purpose of securing proper enforcement of this act the Secretary of Labor, or any person duly authorized by him, shall have authority to enter and inspect at any time mines, quarries, mills, canneries, workshops, factories, manufacturing establishments, and other places in which goods are produced or held for interstate commerce; and the Secretary of Labor shall have authority to employ such assistance for the purposes of this act as may from time to time be authorized by appropriation or other law. S ec. 4. That it shall be the duty of each district attorney to whom the Secre tary of Labor shall report any violation of this act, #or to whom any State factory or mining or quarry inspector, commissioner of labor, State medical inspector, or school-attendance officer, or any other person shall present satis factory evidence of any such violation to cause appropriate proceedings to be commenced and prosecuted in the proper courts of the United States without delay for the enforcement of the penalties in such cases herein provided: Provided, That nothing in this act shall be construed to apply to bona fide boys’ and girls’ canning clubs recognized by the Agricultural Department of the several States and of the United States. S ec . 5. That any person who violates any of the provisions of section one of this act, or who refuses or obstructs entry or inspection authorized by section three of this act, shall for each offense prior to the first conviction of such person under the provisions of this act, be punished by a fine of not more than $20.0, and shall for each offense subsequent to such conviction be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000, nor less than $100, or by imprisonment for not more than three months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the dis cretion of the court: Provided, That no dealer shall be prosefïfted under the provisions of this act for a shipment, delivery for shipment, or transportation who establishes a guaranty issued by the person by whom the goods shipped or delivered for shipment or transportation were manufactured or produced, resident in the United States, to the effect that such goods were produced or manufactured in a mine or quarry in which within thirty days prior to their removal therefrom no children under the age of sixteen years were employed or. permitted to work, or in a mill, cannery, workshop, factory, or manufactur ing establishment, in which within thirty days prior to the removal of such 3 https://fraser.stlouisfed.org Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis 3/313 4 CHILD LABOR LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES. goods therefrom no children under the age of fourteen years were employed or permitted to work, nor children between the ages of fourteen years and six teen years employed or permitted to work more than eight hours in any day or more than six days in any week or after the hour of seven o’clock postmeridian or before the hour of six o’clock antemeridian; and in such event, if the guaranty contains any false statement of a material fact, the guarantor shall be amenable to prosecution and to the fine or imprisonment provided by this section for violation of the provisions of this act. Said guaranty, to afford the protection above provided, shall contain the name and address of the per son giving the same: And provided further, That no producer, manufacturer, or dealer shall be prosecuted under this act for the shipment, delivery for shipment, or transportation of a product of any mine, quarry, mill, cannery, workshop, factory, or manufacturing establishment, if the only employment -therein, within thirty days prior to the removal of such product therefrom, of a child under the age of sixteen years has been that of a child as to whom the producer or manufacturer has in good faith procured, at the time of em ploying such child, and has since in good faith relied upon and kept on file a certificate, issued in such form, under such conditions, and by such persons as may be prescribed by the board, showing the child to be of such an age that the shipment, delivery for shipment, or transportation was not prohibited by this act. Any person'who knowingly makes a false statement or presents false evidence in or in relation to any such certificate or application therefor shall be amenable to prosecution and to the fine or imprisonment provided by this section for violations of this act. In any State designated by the board,-an employment certificate or other similar paper as to the dge of the child, issued under the laws of that State and not inconsistent with the provisions of this act, shall have the same force and effect as a certificate herein provided for. Sec. 6. That the word “ person ” as used in this act shall be construed to include any individual or corporation or the members of any partnership or other unincorporated association. The term “ ship or deliver for shipment in interstate or foreign commerce ” as used in this act means to transport or to ship or deliver for shipment from any State or Territory or the District of Columbia to or through any other State or Territoy or fhe District of Columbia or to any foreign country; and in the case of a dealer means only to transport or to ship or deliver for shipment from the State, Territory, or district of manufacture or production. Sec. 7. That this act shall take effect from and after one year from the date of its passage. Approved, September 1, 1916. https://fraser.stlouisfed.org Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis o
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