Download or read book Report of the Commission on Child Welfare to the Governor written by Herbert M. Diamond and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-18 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report of the Commission on Child Welfare to the Governor: Supplementary Number; Street Trading Among Connecticut Grammar School Children As an unforseen result of this method of soliciting informa tiou'it transpired that'a large number of the returned question haires gave information as to bootblacks not employed on the streets but in regular bootblacking establishments. Strictly speake ing, -pe_rhaps, these children should not have been included inthe tabulations, since in Such cases the boys are not working on. The streets. But this group is retained in the tabulation, since they are regularly employed_in shops before and after School hours, although they are not, as are the bootblackson the streets, their own employers. In the first place it was impossible to select out those who are employed _in such bootblack establishments with any certainty, Since the distinction was not always recog nized by the teacher in filling out the questionnaire. AS a further reason these are included because they fall into a group which no law in the books to-day recognizes or provides for. By the. Terms of recently enacted law no child under fourteen years of age may leave school to'j'enter cinyemployment whatever, nor under Sixteen unless he shall have previously completed certain educ'ational requirements. Under the terms of the law hereto fore in force no child under fourteen, nor under sixteen unless definite educational requirements had been met, might be em ployed in a manufacturing, mercantileor mechanical establish ment. N 0 law past or present p'r'escribes that a child attending school may not work in a bootblack Sh0p and be actually ployed therein in time other than when school is in session. Under previous laws no] child under fourteenyears of age may be employed in a manufacturing, mercantile or mechanical establishment. No law, however, states that a child attending school may not work in a bootblack shop and be actually employed therein in time other than when school is in session. This is, of course, equally true in the case of the boy who mows lawns, or the girl who minds baby y. But there is a difference and dis tinction. The latter groups are not, as a rule, regularly employed nor are their Services'sought by persons who expect to turn _them to a financial profit. Their labor IS in no way exploited. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.