Today in labor history June 03 A federal law regarding child labor declared unconstitutional 1918

[Omaha Steve]

June 03

June 3, 1900 - The International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union was founded when delegates met, selected the union’s name, picked out a union label and elected officers.



June 3, 1918 - A federal law regarding child labor, enacted two years earlier, was declared unconstitutional. A new law was enacted on February 24, 1919, but it, too, was declared unconstitutional. Finally, in the 1930s, child labor provisions were enacted as part of sweeping labor law reforms, but child labor remains a problem in the United States, especially in the retail and fast food industries and farming. For more on child labor and the courts, go to http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=59

[pnorman]

1. Child Labor

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/


"The golf links lie so near the mill That almost every day The laboring children can look out And see the men at play." -- Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/216.html

pnorman

[fasttense]

2. The Dancing Supremes, better known as the Supreme Court,

also at one time ruled minimum wage laws unconstitutional. They seem to stand in the way of every bit of progress this country has ever made. Maybe because the Dancing Supremes can so easily be stacked with idiots.

[Gman]

3. Thank you Mother Jones