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Also the following resolution:

Resolved, That the members of Smallwood Grange of 268
Maryland hereby request the General Assembly to submit to
the voters the amendment providing the right of initiative for
the people of this State; and be it further

Resolved, That copies of this resolution be sent to our
representatives at Annapolis to be offered in the House and
Senate.

(Signed) WM. H. BUCKINGHAM, Secretary,

Westminster, Carroll County, Md.

[Which was read and referred to the Committee on Amend-
ments to the Constitution. ]

Also a petition of James D. Hull, secretary, Brigham-
Hopkins Company, manufacturers of fashionable straw hats,
Baltimore, Maryland, protesting against House Bill No. 539,
particularly Section 22-A, stating that personally they deplore
the necessity of any children working at all, but believe that
the curtailing of their working time, as well as lowering of
age1 limit, will work a hardship to many children who are
obliged, under the present conditions, to obtain a livelihood
for themselves, and possibly for others dependent upon them.
[Which was read and referred to the Committee on Judicial
Proceedings. ]

Also a petition of A. Eisenberg, proprietor, Eisenberg's
underselling store, Lexington street, Baltimore, in opposition
to Section 22-A of House Bill No, 539, introduced by Delegate
White of Baltimore city. The protest states that they will
be compelled to dismiss all employes under 16 years of age
if the Bill passes. The store employs 500 men and women;
they state that as there is no vocational business training in
our public schools, girls and boys between the ages of 14 and
16 would be deprived of the opportunity to gain a business
training, and that the age of 16 is too late in life to make
a beginning in most cases and, in all cases, would be detri-
mental and embarrassing to them. They, therefore; ask that
the section be eliminated or the Bill defeated. [Which was
read and referred to the Committee on Agriculture and
Labor. ]

Also a petition of Oppenheim, Oberndorf & Company, Inc.,
New York and Baltimore, manufacturers of shirts, overalls
and underwear, opposing Section 22-A of Mr. White's House
Bill No. 539, relating to child labor laws. They claim that

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