This act worked to limit the amount of hours a child could work and stated that sale of good produced by children could not be sold in interstate sales. By 1900 the census showed that two million children were working in various horrible conditioned jobs. the National Child Labor Committee called attention to the issue in 1908 but hiring Lewis Hines to photograph some of these children. Marx and Dickens also worked to call attention to the poor conditions and treatment of children through their writings. The Keating-Owen bill of 1916 gave the government the right to regulate interstate commerce in order to regulate child labor. The law was signed by Wilson but the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional. Another law was passed 3 years later to take an indirect route to child labor. But it did not pass either. Even though the nation wanted laws and change against child labor the Supreme Court made it very difficult. Finally the Child Labor Amendment was installed during the 1920s and eventually the Court reversed the case that made the Keating-Owen Act illegal.
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