More than 5,000 members of the National Council of Jewish Women in New York State were urged yesterday in a communication by Mrs. Mary G. Schonberg, the executive secretary, to make a concerted effort to force the proposed Child Labor Amendment out of committee in the State Assembly.
Acting in cooperation with the National Labor Committee, the Council plans to flood Chairman William C. McCreery and other members of the Assembly Judiciary Committee with telegrams and letters.
Mrs. Schonberg stated that the action of the committee in casting a secret vote to kill the amendment was reprehensible.
“The measure,” she said, should have been reported out upon the floor of the Senate for discussion and vote.”
The secretary also took issue with a statement made by Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, that the amendment was not pending in “any true sense” in the State Legislature.
“I particularly disagree with Dr. Butler when he says that the people had dismissed the matter when thirty-six states in previous action on the amendment refused to ratify it. I believe that it is fundamental Americanism that nothing is ever settled in this country that affects the welfare of any group of its citizens.”
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