On May 11, 1919, a child labor law restricting the employment of children took effect.
Learn more:
Legislative Act Prohibiting and Regulating the Employment
of Minors
Comments of State Senator Elmer Hough on Child Labor Law
"'West Virginia Did The Impossible': Our New Child Labor
Law"
Extract from Fifteenth Biennial Report of the Bureau of Labor of
West Virginia, 1919-1920
"Child Labor in West Virginia"