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TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1918
CHILD LABOR LAW INVALID
The child labor law, which recentlj
was declared unconstitutional by th(
supreme court of the United States,
was enacted in 1916 and forbids the
interstate shipment of industrial prod
ucts from plants in which children
under 14 years of age are employed,
or in which children over 14 but un
der 16 years of age work more than
eight hours a day or more than six
uays a ween.
The law was declared unconstitu
tional by the federal district court of
North Carolina when Roland H. Dag
enhart secured restraining orders to
prevent the government from enforc
ing the act, and the Fidelity Manufac
turing Company which operates a cot
ton mill at Charlotte, from complying
with the act by discharging Dagen
hart’s two minor children. The govern
ment appealed the decision to the su
preme court, where • the case was
heard in April, 1918.
The measure is of the utmost im
portance to labor all over the United
States, government attorneys pointed
out in the argument, though the im
mediate effect of its enticement per
haps would be chiefly felt in the south
ern states, and particularly in the
cotton mills. Existing law's in a num
ber of states forbidding the cnploy
ment of children would be threatened,
the government contended, if the law
were held invalid, because manu
facturers without child labor would
have difficulty in competing with the
manufacturers in states which allowed
it.
While the law was founded on the
clause of the constitution which simply
gives congress the right to regulate
interstate commerce, tho government
conceded in court that its real pur
pose was not to control commerce,
but to control federal conditions with
in states, Attorneys attacking the val
dity of the measure founded their ar
gument chiefly on that. The effect of
the law, they contended, was to en
force within the borders of certain
states a policy which these states had
repeatedly refused to adopt into laws
themselves. Congress, they contended,
had no right to legislate for unwilling
states by use of the interstate com
merce clause of the constitution. Sim
ilar attempts to accomplish an end
through the commerce controlling
power had been nullified by the court,
they contended.
J no government s argument was
that the interstate commerce clause
had been so construed by the court
that congress was more than justi
fied in using it to forbid child labor
Decisions of the court sustaining food
and drug Inspection acts, and legisla
tion to restrict shipment of intoxi
cants were cited as instances of the
similar use of the power. The right
to interfere with the police powers
of states under the clause, if con
gress had good reason for the inter
ference, was said to have been estab
lished sufficiently before the court tc
make it certain that the ban on the
prodnata of child labor was const!
tutionaJ, even though the North Car
olina court declared that it was not.
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The first national restaurant oper
ated by the British government sup
plies a satisfying, hot meal at mid
day or la the evening for about 2E
cents. There is seating accommoda
tion for 200. In the evening the din
ners are served to outside customon
if a deposit Is made for the tins con
taining the three-course meal, whicl
is delivered by messenger.
M’CARTHY, June 25—Elaborate
> preparations are being made here for
r a fitting celebration on the Fourth of
f July. The affair is in charge of a
(■ competent committee, and the busl
I ness houses have Contributed $700 to
l be awarded in prizes. Special excur
sion trains will be run from Chitina
and way points, the sports to com
mence as soon as the train arrives.
The program follows:
In the Morning
Rock-drilling Contest—First prize,
$150; second prize, $50.
Baseball Match—$100.
Tug of War—$100.
Hundred-yard Free-for-all Dash—
$20.
Ladies’ Race—$10.
Sack Race—First prize, $10; sec
ond prize, $5.
Grils’ race, 10 to 14 years.
Boys’ race, 10 to 14 years.
Girls' race, 5 to 8 years.
Boys’ race, 5 to 8 years.
Packing contest, hurdle race and
fat men’s race.
In the Evening
Special picture, show, “Cleopatra,”
followed by a grand ball
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This afternoon at 1:30 o’clock the
Presbyterian church was the scene ol
a very pretty wedding, the contract
ing parties being Earl John Cornwall
of the navy radio station at Mile 7M>
and Miss Mayme Elizabeth Schmidt
of Davenport, Iowa, who arrived on
the steamship Alaska. Rev. A. G.
Shriver performed the ceremony in
the presence o fa few intimate
friends. The yoang couple start out
in life with the best wishes of all.
Chairman William C. Edes of the
Alaskan engineering commission and
Andrew Christensen, head of the in
dustrial department of the govern
ment railroad are passengers aboard
the steamship Alaska. They intended
getting off here and going in to Fair
banks, but have changed their minds
and will go direct to Anchorage, mak
in the Interior trip at a later date.
Mr. Edes says that work on the rail
road will be pushed as rapidly this
summer as available labor will per
mit
IcEllifir
NOW IS OEMLITED
Few, If any of the new maps of
Alaska, Indicate the location of Dyea,
one of Alaska’s '’dead cities” which, ac
cording to reports received here, has
been entirely depopulated. For a brief
time, during the golden stampede days
of 1898, Dyea’s population numbered
several thousand and the town was
one of the busiest and largest of the
several which rose during the boom.
Dyea lay on tidewater at the foot of
the famous Chilcoot Pass and was an
outfitting point for many of the thou
sands who surged across the pass on
their way to the gold fields of the
Klondike. Money was plentiful, laws
were few, and to Dyea flocked adven
turers from many parts.
Then the boom days passed, and the
population dwindled away, leaving the
tents and frame houses to fall away
beneath the winter snow's. A few
years ago It was reported that but
one Indian lived in the town. Now it
is said, he is gone.
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NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS'
MEETING
Notice is hereby given that the an
nual meeting of the stockholders of
of the First Bank of Cordova will be
held at the office of said bank in the
'own of Cordova Alaska, on Tuesday,
July 9, 1918, at the hour of four
o'clock P. M., at which meeting the
directors of said bank will be elected
for the ensuing year, and suoh other
business transacted as may regularly
come before said meeting.
THOMAS S, SCOTT, Sec.
Dated at Cordova, Alaska, June 25,
1918.
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In the United States commission
er’s court yesterday Tom Vevig was
bound over to the grand jury in the
sum of $1,000 for a violation of the
espionage act by Judge Adams. Vevig
was charged with uttering abusive
language against the military forces
near the Miler Glacier bridge.
The $175 netted by the dance re
cently given by Mrs. Nina Nichols
and Charles Rogers, with which to
buy “smokes” for the drafted boys
from Cordova who are now at Fort
Llscunt, has been invested, and as a
result two cases of tohacca, pur
chased from the local dealers at
wholesale, will be shipped to our boys
>n the steamship Alaska today.
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