LABOR: Children's Amendment

Politicians nodded affirmatively together; whether they liked it or not, they agreed, there was no need to call in a coroner—it was dead beyond doubt; there was no need to summon an undertaker—it was buried too deeply. If anything was dead, politicians declared, then surely the proposed 20th Amendment to the Constitution—the Child Labor Amend-ment—was dead, ratified by 4 states, rejected by 30.

But political certainties are not Labor certainties. Last week a pamphlet was issued by William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor. It is to be distributed to members...

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