LAD #23

7 February 2007
LAD 23:
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916
The Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916 is officially instated, as the 1990 census reported that over two million children under the age of sixteen were working in the mills, mines, fields, factories, stores, and on city streets, with unsafe conditions and unfair hours and wages. Based on the 1906 proposal by Senator Albert J. Beveridge, the sale of all products from any factory, shop, or cannery that employed children under the age of 14, and from any mine that employed children under the age of 16, are banned from the American public. This is an act to prevent interstate commerce in the products of child labor, and for other purposes, and worked towards the appeasement of social reformers, the public and the children themselves. The Attorney General, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Secretary of Labor shall regulate a board to revise and enforce the labor laws outlines in this Act. Furthermore, to ensure the strict accommodation of this Child Labor Act, there may be at any given time, a governmental inspection of any mine, quarry, factory, workshop, or place of manufacturing in the Untied States of America.