Child labor
Cry Wolf Quotes
[Such laws are] a communistic effort to nationalize children, making them primarily responsible to him and the government instead of to their parents. It strikes at the home. It appears to be a definite positive plan to destroy the Republic and substitute a social democracy.
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Clarence E. Martin, President American Bar Association. Only date available: 1933.
The child will become a very dominant factor in the household and might refuse perhaps to do chores before six a.m. or after seven p.m. or to perform any labor.
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Senator Weldon Heyburn (R-ID). Only date available: 1908.
My aim is to put back some common sense. We're not doing students any favor by telling them, 'You cannot work.'
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Jane Cunningham, state senator from Missouri (R )
I think you cannot write a law for every extreme situation. We just have to write the best law we can that has common sense in it.
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Jane Cunningham, state senator from Missouri (R )
