<P> Hine took many pictures of workers under the age of 16 in the field . It is his pictures that appear in many books on the history of child labor . His photographs were taken in high risk situations in order to capture the negative side of child labor . His photographs also helped make the National Child Labor Committee investigate the child labor that was taking place in many of America's factories . "Hine was clever enough to bluff his way into many plants . He searched where he was not welcome, snapped scenes that were meant to be hidden from the public . At times, he was in real danger, risking physical attack when factory managers realized what he was up to...he put his life in the line in order to record a truthful picture of working children in early twentieth - century America" Now there is a Lewis Hine awards that awards 10 honorees in their outstanding work in servicing young people . Each winner wins 1,000 dollars and a trip to New York to attend the awards ceremony . </P> <P> Immediately after its conception in 1904, the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC) began advocating for child labor reform on the state level . A number of state - centered campaigns were organized by the NCLS's two regional leaders, Owen Lovejoy in the northern states and Alexander McKelway in the southern states . Both Lovejoy and McKelway actively organized investigations of child labor conditions and lobbied state legislatures for labor regulations . </P> <P> Although the NCLC made some strides in the north, by 1907, McKelway and the NCLC had achieved little success in enlisting the support of the southern people and had failed to pass any far - reaching reforms in the south's important mill states . Consequently, the NCLC decided to refocus its state - by - state attack on child labor and endorsed the first national anti-child labor bill, introduced to congress by Senator Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana in 1907 . Although the bill was later defeated, it convinced many opponents of child labor that a solution lay in the cooperation and solidarity between the states . </P> <P> In response, the NCLC called for the establishment of a federal children's bureau that would investigate and report on the circumstances of all American children . In 1912 the NCLC succeeded in passing an act establishing a United States Children's Bureau in the Department of Commerce and Labor . On April 9 President William Taft signed the act into law, and over the next thirty years the Children's Bureau would work closely with the NCLC to promote child labor reforms on both the state and national level . </P>

Who was well known as advocate to improve child labor laws