LAD #29 The Keating-Owen Child Labor Act

Summary of the Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916:

Passed in 1916, the Act was a result of Senator Albert Beveridge's 1906 proposal, which was to use the government's role to regulate interstate commerce to fight against child labor. The Act, sponsored by Edward Keating and Robert Latham Owen, banned the sale of products from any factory that employed children younger than 14, or from any mine that employed children under 16, or from any factory that made children under 16 work more than eight hours. The law was passed and effected until it was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in the 1918 case Hammer vs. Dagenhart, because the law overstepped the government's power to regulate interstate trade.