Child Labor Law

Koch, Dep. Att’y-Gen.,

Your letter of March 31, 1927, inquires whether the Child Labor Law (Act of May 13, 1915, P. L. 286) *780applies to children engaged in theatrical, musical or artistic work. You also inquire whether your department has any discretionary power in handling cases which it feels are worthy of especial consideration; in other words, whether you can suspend the operation of the law in particular cases where you feel that to apply the law strictly would work a hardship and do an injury.

As I view the law, children, under its provisions, fall into three classes:

1. Children under…