The Chatter-Box
CHILD LABOR AMENDMENT T- HE UNITED STATES,with tbegreatc* t power* of production in the world, 1* the scene of a struggle that reveals the character of our ruling Babbittry. It would appear to...
...On that issue there should be no question as to how the civilized States should vote, if there is any real veneration for childhood a t all...
...But the assumption is fallacitsu...
...A sample of the argument presented by lite Babbitts against the amendment is sent out by Miss Nils F. Allen, who solemnly asserts that the proposed amendment would "confer upon Congress an exclusive right to regulate not merely the working life of children hut of every person in the United States under eighteen years of age...
...They succeeded in confusing the issue in Massachusetts so as to obtain an adverse vol* in a referendum in that State...
...it will be solely a matter for the parents...
...The organised power of the manufacturer* of the United States is now mobilized to prevent the ratification by State Legislature* of the child labor amendment...
...It would appear to a normal human being in this century that the welfare of childhood would appeal to all...
...Georgia and North Carolina have alee rejected the amendment and another alliance between the fleecers of two sections ha* been ratified over the prostrate bodies of children...
...Therefore let the Babbitts do the regulating in their Messed factory hells...
...They will do the "regulating...
...Congress would do no regulating at all...
...What the children shall do with the time formerly spent in the factories will nof be a matter for Congress to decide...
...The amendment would be positive only on one matter, and that is that our children shall not he used as raw material to enrich the manufscturlng Babbitts...
...It is a question as to whether the Babbitts shall do the regulating for their own profit or whether the parents shall do it for the welfare of their children...
...Not so to our manufacturing Babbitts...
...Massachusetts is the most notorious of 'the northern State* for exploitation of children in its textile hel]s, just as in slavery days its textile masters supported the slave owners in order- to get cheap slave cotton for their mill...
Vol. 1 • November 1924 • No. 45
