Existing comment:
All Work and No Play
Suzanne Heber's horror at seeing "the lives ground out of mere babies by hard labor" spurred her to support child labor regulation. But the Supreme Court invalidated several child labor laws, including Keating-Owen. In 1924, Congress proposed the Child Labor Amendment, but it wasn't ratified by three-fourths of the states. Subsequent legislation was upheld, and the proposed amendment became moot.
Letter from Suzanne Heber Supporting Keating-Owen Child Labor Bill, February 25, 1916, Records of the U.S. Senate |