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1 Federal Child Labor Amendment: Radio Address by William D. Guthrie 1935

handle is hein.beal/fdcdla0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE FEDERAL CHILD LABOR AMENDMENT. Radio address by William D. Guthrie, of the New York Bar, Chairman Special Committee American Bar Association, delivered at New York studio of National Broadcasting Company, Monday evening, January 7, 1935. The so-called Federal Child Labor Amendment was proposed by Congress to the state legislatures on June 2, 1924, and within less than a year it had been rejected by both branches of the legislature in twenty-three States and by one branch in eleven additional States, making a total adverse action by thirty-four state legis- latures. As under the Constitution an amendment must be ratified by three-fourths of the forty-eight States, that is, by thirty-six States, it was assumed in 1925 that the amendment had been definitely defeated; and, accord- ing to a unanimous decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, an amendment must be ratified within a reasonable time. The amendment cannot be now legally resurrected after its burial ten years ago and be validly acted upon by state legislatures unless a second time proposed by Congress. It was convincingly argued in 1924 and 1925, and should be even more convincing in 1935, that, if the Child Labor Law bf any State is insufficient, or, if sufficient, is not being adequately enforced, then the energy and funds being expended in the campaign for ratification of the

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