Word: aging
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...investigation against the factories and sweat shops was started by the women of Chicago. It was ascertained that children of 12 years of age were being employed in intensely hot glass-works; that the average life of these children after they went to work was between four and five years and that they were being paid $1.50 to $2.00 a week. This was about 1893 and the women immediately set to work to fight the legislature. They were combatted by the Illinois Manufacturers Association and defeated at first, but at last they succeeded in passing a law which made...
...power to enforce; an endowment bill for teachers; and a home rule and taxation bill which relieves the farmers of exorbitant taxation on property and puts some of it on idle land. They also succeeded in passing a child-labor law which prohibits a child under 18 years of age from working for more than eight hours...
...William E. Hooper, of New York, associate editor of the "Railway Age Gazette," will deliver a lecture on the question. "Is the Interstate Commerce Commission's Classification of Railroad Accounts Meeting the Needs of the Commission?" in Emerson A this evening at 8 o'clock. His lecture is open to all members of the University...
...Lecture. "Is the Interstate Commerce Commission's Classification of Railroad Accounts meeting the needs of the Commission?" by Mr. William E. Hooper, Associate Editor of the "Railway Age Gazette," New York, in Emerson...
...penitentiary where the influences are not uplifting, the changes are that he will be hardened into an incurable law-breaker. But, on the other hand, if he can be turned over to an intelligent man, sufficiently older than himself to demand respect, and near enough his own age to have mutual understanding, the chances are that he may be straightened out. The college man finds the boy occupation, talks to him sensibly, and under this treatment all but the really vicious boys can be straightened...