Child Labor in City StreetsClopper, Edward Nicholas
History
Child Labor in City Streets
Clopper, Edward Nicholas
Child labor
A Western Newspaper and its Newsboys, by W. B. Forbush, _Charities and
Commons_, 1907, Vol. XIX, pp. 798-802.
Waifs of the Street, by Ernest Poole, _McClure's_, Vol. XXI, pp.
40-48.
What Boston Has Done in Regulating the Street Trades for Children, by
Pauline Goldmark, _Charities and Commons_, 1903, Vol. X, pp.
159-160.
What of the Newsboy of the Second Cities? Investigations carried on in
Buffalo, _Charities and Commons_, 1903, Vol. X, pp. 368-371.
APPENDICES
APPENDIX A
LAWS
The law of Wisconsin relative to street trading, as amended in 1911,
is given below in its entirety, because it is the most advanced law of
its kind in the United States.
_Wisconsin_
SECTION 1728 p. The term "street trade," as used in this act, shall
mean any business or occupation in which any street, alley, court,
square or other public place is used for the sale, display or offering
for sale of any articles, goods or merchandise. No boy under the age
of twelve years, and no girl under the age of eighteen years, shall in
any city of the first class distribute, sell or expose or offer for
sale newspapers, magazines or periodicals in any street or public
place.
SECTION 1728 q. No boy under fourteen years of age, shall, in any city
of the first class, work at any time, or be employed or permitted to
work at any time, as a bootblack or in any other street trade, or
shall sell or offer any goods or merchandise for sale or distribute
hand bills or circulars or any other articles, except newspapers,
magazines or periodicals as hereinafter provided.
SECTION 1728 r. No girl under eighteen years of age shall, in any city
of the first class, work at any time, or be employed or permitted to
work at any time, as a bootblack or at any other street trades or in
the sale or distribution of hand bills or circulars or any other
articles upon the street or from house to house.
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