Lad #23

This report shows how many children were facing harsh working conditions, in factories and mines. With his thought-provoking pictures, Lewis Hine brought the hideousness of child labor into the foresight of the public. The Keating-Owen bill was a harsh progressive bill, banning the trade of any product that had touched a child's hand on the production line. Many products such as textiles or coal were banned from distribution under this bill, because they employed child labor. This bill was labeled too radical and farfetched, and was therefore declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.