The Child, Volumes 5-6Children's Bureau, United States Department of Labor, 1940 - Child welfare |
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Page 235 - SECTION 1. The Congress shall have power to limit, regulate, and prohibit the labor of persons under eighteen years of age. "SECTION 2. The power of the several States is unimpaired by this article except that the operation of State laws shall be suspended to the extent necessary to give effect to legislation enacted by the Congress.
Page 73 - Proceedings of the conference held under the auspices of the Committee on Public Health Relations of the New York Academy of Medicine, November 9 and 10, 1939 (New York Academy of Medicine, 2 East 103rd Street, New York City, NY).
Page 236 - ... Constitution and no Congress their power to cross the line would depend upon their neighbors. Under the Constitution such commerce belongs not to the States but to Congress to regulate. It may carry out its views of public policy whatever indirect effect they may have upon the activities of the States. Instead of being encountered by a prohibitive tariff at her boundaries the State encounters the public policy of the United States which it is for Congress to express.
Page 236 - The act does not meddle with anything belonging to the States. They may regulate their internal affairs and their domestic commerce as they like. But when they seek to send their product across the state line they are no longer within their rights.
Page 284 - for the purpose of enabling the United States, through the Children's Bureau, to cooperate with State public welfare agencies in establishing, extending, and strengthening, especially in predominantly rural areas, public welfare services for the protection and care of homeless, dependent and neglected children and children in danger of becoming delinquent.
Page 262 - A few examples of such topics may be given: housing, conservation of natural and human resources, community planning, cooperatives, pressure groups and their methods of influencing legislation, the stock exchange, corporations, labor organizations, the industries of the nation, various forms of municipal government, governmental services such as those of the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, and Labor, the origin and nature of money and systems of exchange, international relations, consumers
Page 83 - ... in any occupation which the Chief of the Children's Bureau in the Department of Labor shall find and by order declare to be particularly hazardous for the employment of children between such ages or detrimental to their health or well-being...
Page 217 - Stat. 617), has authorized and requested the President of the United States to issue annually a proclamation setting apart May 1 as Child Health Day: NOW, THEREFORE, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, in recognition of the...
Page 248 - School and work. It is essential that children and youth be sound and wellprepared in body and mind for the tasks of today and tomorrow. Their right to schooling should not be scrapped for the duration. Demands for the employment of children as a necessary war measure should be analyzed to determine whether full use has been made of available adult man power and to distinguish between actual labor shortage and the desire to obtain cheap labor. The education and wholesome development of boys and girls...
Page 78 - SPECIAL REFERENCE TO STATE PROGRAMS. 439 p. Commonwealth Fund:NY 1940. $4.39. A comprehensive picture is given in this book of the development of psychiatric clinical services for children as well as of the problems that need to be met when such services are conducted under State auspices. The description of the organization and programs of State-conducted clinics for children presented in part II of the volume is based on material collected in a survey conducted under the auspices of the National...