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this subject: Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Oklahoma, 

 and the District of Columbia. 



2. The eight-hour day has been established in Ohio, Illinois, 

 Indiana, Nebraska, New York, Wisconsin, Colorado, Oklahoma, 

 North Dakota, Kansas, and the District of Columbia. 



3. Night work under sixteen years has been made illegal in 

 Alabama, California, Delaware, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, 

 Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jer- 

 sey, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, 

 Vermont, Washington, and the District of Columbia. 



4. A fourteen-year-age limit as the minimum for employ- 

 ment in industry has been established in the following states : 

 California, Colorado, Delaware, Idaho, Iowa", Kentucky, Louisi- 

 ana, Maine, Missouri, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, North Dakota, 

 New Jersey, Tennessee, West Virginia, Rhode Island, Kansas, 

 and the District of Columbia. 



5. Departments of factory inspection have been established 

 in Alabama, Colorado, Delaware, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, 

 North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Tennessee, 

 Virginia, and the District of Columbia. 



6. Methods of proving the age of children seeking employ- 

 ment have been provided in the following : California, Iowa, Kan- 

 sas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, 

 Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, 

 Rhode Island, Washington, Wisconsin, and the District of Colum- 

 bia. 



Meantime, compulsory education laws have been enacted or 

 improved in a large number of states. 



Alabama, Florida, Maryland, North Carolina, North Dakota, 

 South Carolina, Virginia, permit the employment of boys of 

 twelve years in mines. 



Children under sixteen are still permitted to work at 

 night in Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Mon- 

 tana, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, 

 West Virginia and Wyoming. 



There are thirty-five states in the Union in which children 

 under sixteen years of age may work more than eight hours a 

 day. Recently there has been widespread complaint against con- 

 finement of children in poorly ventilated school rooms, where 

 they spend the day in physical inactivity. Under the most objec- 

 tionable conditions, the child is confined in school 1,000 

 hours annually. In Massachusetts the factory child is con- 

 fined 2,9 1 2 hours a year, and in New York, where the eight- 



