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Excerpt from Child-Labor Bill: Hearings Before the Committee on Labor, House of Representatives, Sixty-Fourth Congress, First Session, on H. R. 8234; A Bill to Prevent Interstate Commerce in the Products of Child Labor and for Other Purposes; January 10, 11 and 12, 1916
The chairman (interposing). Mr. Clark, if you will not take offense, I think you had better talk a little more clearly. It is difficult to understand your statement, speaking so fast.
Mr. Keating. Do I understand that you take the position that any Federal child-labor legislation would be unjust to the southern cotton interests and the State of North Carolina particularly?
Mr. Clark. I take the position that it is unconstitutional, not that it is unjust. Of course I take the position that this particular bill is unjust.
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