In
1916 Congress made its first effort to control child
labour by passing
the Keating-Owen
Act. The legislation forbade the transportation
among states of products of factories, shops or canneries employing
children under 14 years of age, of mines employing children under
16 years of age, and the products of any of these employing children
under 16 who worked at night or more than eight hours a day. In 1918
the Supreme Court ruled that the Keating-Owen
Act was unconstitutional.
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