. The National Civic Federation review . nder fifteenyears, while both France and Germany, although not having a higher age limit for employment, requirethat all chilren employed shall have completed thecommon school course of education. WJ. RICHARDS, Second Vice-President and Gen-• eral Manager of the Philadelphia and ReadingCoal and Iron Company, in his opening remarks statedthat, the cause of my appearance here to-day may befound in the unwarranted statements that have beenappearing in the public press for the past six monthsregarding the employment of child labor in the anthra-cite fields
. The National Civic Federation review . nder fifteenyears, while both France and Germany, although not having a higher age limit for employment, requirethat all chilren employed shall have completed thecommon school course of education. WJ. RICHARDS, Second Vice-President and Gen-• eral Manager of the Philadelphia and ReadingCoal and Iron Company, in his opening remarks statedthat, the cause of my appearance here to-day may befound in the unwarranted statements that have beenappearing in the public press for the past six monthsregarding the employment of child labor in the anthra-cite fields of Pennsylvania. There is in Pennsylvania, he said, covering theportion of the anthracite fields, a mine law, and in ad-dition special laws have been enacted from time to timelimiting the age at which boys can be employed in thebreakers and the mines. In the agitation for these laws,the operators have always favored and advocated thehighest age suggested. The law now standing on thestatute books of Pennsylvania and the age limit fixed. CHAIRMEN OF THE FEDERATIONS SEVEN DEPARTMENTS. thereby was enacted by the Legislature in 1903. Thatlaw fixes the age for the employment of boys in thebreakers at fourteen years and the age for employmentof boys in the mines at sixteen years. These ages havethe full approval of all the operators and mining com-panies in the anthracite regions. The effort of the com-panies has always been to rigidly adhere to that instructions to all the superintendents and foremenof collieries have been to give close attention to everyboy coming to or at work to learn whether he is of theage he is represented to be in the certificate furnished byhis parents or guardians. To further protect the child and to prevent the em-ployment of any under the legal age the State of Penn-sylvania has a compulsory education law requiring theattendance at school of all children under fourteenyears of age. To fully enforce its provisions a truant officer is appointed in
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