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The league was dedicated to excluding Japanese people from the United States and was funded mostly by the California Building and Construction Trades Council, a prominent labor union. [2] In December 1907, it was renamed the Asiatic Exclusion League , which was then reorganized as the Japanese Exclusion League (JEL) in September 1920.
In May 1905, a mass meeting was held in San Francisco, California to launch the Japanese and Korean Exclusion League. [1] Among those attending the first meeting were labor leaders and European immigrants, Patrick Henry McCarthy of the Building Trades Council of San Francisco, Andrew Furuseth, and Walter Macarthur of the International Seamen's Union.
The main law regulating child labor in the United States is the Fair Labor Standards Act.For non-agricultural jobs, children under 14 may not be employed, children between 14 and 16 may be employed in allowed occupations during limited hours, and children between 16 and 17 may be employed for unlimited hours in non-hazardous occupations. [2]
14: Maximum of 8 hours per day and 40 hours per week during the non-school day period; During the school day can only work 3 hours per day and 18 hours per school week; Arizona law further limits employment of children under the age of 16 making it unlawful for a child under the age of 16 to work between the hours of 9:30 p.m. and 6 a.m.
The Story of Japanese Farming in California (1957) Ferguson, Edwin E. "The California Alien Land Law and the Fourteenth Amendment." California Law Review 35 (1947): 61+. Ichioka, Yuji. "Japanese immigrant response to the 1920 California alien land law." Agricultural History 58.2 (1984): 157–178. Finds little impact of 1913 law, more impact ...
California proceeded to strengthen its Alien land law in 1920 and 1923. [7] [8] [9] Other states passes similar laws including Washington in 1921 [5] and Oregon in 1923. [10] In State of California v. Oyama (1948), [11] the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that California's Alien Land Law was anti-Japanese in concept, and deemed unfit to stand in ...
But California’s Chamber of Commerce argues the bill is a step backwards for workplace flexibility and fails to consider California’s longstanding laws regarding hours worked and compensation.
Child labor in the United States was a common phenomenon across the economy in the 19th century. Outside agriculture, it gradually declined in the early 20th century, except in the South which added children in textile and other industries. Child labor remained common in the agricultural sector until compulsory school laws were enacted by the ...