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1932 › Norman Thomas (Socialist) › Child labor
Abolition of child labor
pledge_forwardspecific_pledgeparty_platformevidence B Labor & EmploymentSociety & Rights similar solutions · similar reasoning
Solution
Remove children 'of tender age' from mills and factories, particularly in the South, and give them schooling.
Rationale
Children's 'physical, mental and moral development is stunted in the mills and factories.'
Evidence B: the platform text is archived only as contemporary newspaper OCR (Milwaukee Leader, the Socialist daily) and Levinson's New Leader summary, not the official platform document.
Statements (2)
We demand that the millions of children of tender age whose physi cal, mental and moral development is stunted in the mills and fac tories, particularly in the south, be removed from industry and allowed the schooling, play and sunshine which are their just due.
the convention 0 K'd without discus sion the planks declaring for old age pensions for men and women GO years old and older; for health insurance; improved systems of workmen's compensation and acci dent insurance and for the aboli tion of child labor.
Follow-through
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Thomas received 2.2 percent of the vote; the Socialist program could not be tested in office. NRA codes barred child labor from 1933; the Fair Labor Standards Act (1938) made the ban statutory.
Enacted by others
| 1938-06-25 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | statute NIRA codes; Fair Labor Standards Act | source |
Other positions on this issue
- No return to sweatshops or children working in factories — Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 directional_stance
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