LAD #29

In 1916, due to Senator Beveridge’s proposal, congress passed the ever so needed Keating-Owen Child Labor Act. Using the power of the federal government’s power to regulate interstate commerce, this bill began to regulate harsh child labor in factories. The Keating-Owen Act banned the sale of products from any company that employed children under the legal age of 14. This ban also included any child under 16 working in a mine, at night, or for more than eight hours a day. Even though this would be extremely beneficial to child workers and was even approved my President Wilson, the Supreme Court declared the bill unconstitutional in the Supreme Court case Hammer v. Dagenhart.  IT was still declared unconstitutional even though many people wanted to see the end to unfair child labor. It eventually came to be that congress was successful in archiving to the goal of an act that regulated child labor.