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Supporters urge Massachusetts to ratify long-pending federal child-labor amendment
Summary
Witnesses including local activists and constitutional-law volunteers told the Joint Committee on Election Laws that Massachusetts should ratify a federal Child Labor Amendment pending since 1924, citing recent legislative rollbacks in other states and ongoing child-labor enforcement issues.
Several speakers asked the Joint Committee on Election Laws to advance a state resolution or resolve to ratify a long-pending federal Child Labor Amendment that was first proposed in 1924 and remains unratified by enough states to become part of the U.S. Constitution.
Vincent Lawrence Dixon and Alexander Jablon told the committee the amendment remains relevant because recent state…
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