Hudson-Belk Company Wants to Use Children Younger Than 14 to Wrap Packages, July 15, 1919

From The Commonwealth, Scotland Neck, N.C., July 15, 1919

Relief Sought in Child Labor

Raleigh, N.C., July 15—Hudson-Belk Company, of this city, has hoped the question with the State Child Welfare Commission relative to the employment of children under the age of 14 at wrapping clerk during vacation time, which has caused the commission to instruct its executive secretary, Mr. E.F. Carter, to relieve employers from liability under the new law, which goes into effect today where good reasons are given for the employment of children under the age of 14.