Children bear the promise of a better world -- [electronic resource]: our nation does not need their toil.

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Title	Children bear the promise of a better world -- [electronic resource]: our nation does not need their toil.
Alternative Title	Our nation does not need their toil.
Item Number	l0073
Creator (Corporate)	United States. Children's Bureau.
Government Publisher	U.S. Department of Labor, Children's Bureau; U.S. Government Printing Office
Original Date	[1942?].
Physical Description	[10] p. ; 22 cm.
Series	Defense of children series ; no. 9
Notes	CHILDREN IN WARTIME,' a radio program on defense of children, prepared by the Children's Bureau, is presented every Monday at 11 a. m. Eastern War Time over the Blue Network.--back cover.; Title from cover.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary	The protection of children from premature employment and the safeguarding of their opportunity for education and preparation for life are basic in any program for social welfare in any society, whether that society be strong or weak, rich or poor, at peace or at war. In the United States at this moment -- now more than ever before -- it is essential that the Nation make the wisest possible provision for the protection of its childhood from labor that is detrimental to health, education, and general welfare. A child who starts to work too young, before he has had a chance for normal physical, mental, and social development, starts life with a handicap -- a handicap that burdens not only the child himself, but his State and his Nation. If today's children are to be able to build the better world of tomorrow for which adults are now fighting, boys and girls must be given more rather than less opportunity than they have been given in the past... Child labor is not a new problem just now thrust upon the Nation. Our people have developed reasonable standards of protection in this field; we know the ways in which those standards may be put into operation; we have advanced far in developing good technique for administering them effectively. Good child-labor laws, and their important complementary, compulsory-school-attendance laws, are fundamental in our present program to insure for children preparation for democratic citizenship. Such laws should (1) require children to attend school at least up to 16 years of age, (2) establish a basic 16-year minimum age for employment, (3) regulate their hours of work, (4) protect them from hazardous occupations, and (5) make provision for the effective enforcement of these standards..-- p. [3]- [4].
Corporate Names	United States.--Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.
Topical Terms	World War, 1939-1945--United States. World War, 1939-1945--Children--Employment--United States. Child labor--United States. Child labor--Government policy--United States. Child care--United States.
Gov Doc Classification	L 5.4:9
Type	Text
Digital Format	.pdf
Digital Publication Date	Available in digital format: 2001-2002
Digitization Process	Scanned as 300 dpi .jpg; converted to Adobe .pdf
SMU File Name	l0073.pdf
Digital Collection	Historic Government Publications from World War II
Library	Government Information Resources
Publisher	Central University Libraries, Southern Methodist University
Rights	These files may be freely used. A high-quality version of these files may be obtained for a fee by contacting ncds@smu.edu.

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