poussaint: catherine glennon's three sons, brian, danny, and tom, were all umpires, and she didn't seein what the ks were doing. catherine: my older kids had umpired. brian was the third one of the boys that had taken the course. he's out! poussaint: according to the illinois department of labor, they had no choice but to enforce the law. when they receive a complaint, they are duty bound to investigate it. man: we don't have any choice in it. in fact, with the child labor law, once an investigation is filed, we have to investigate it within 24 hours. that's one of the most strictest standards that we have in illinois, and it's obviously because of the sensitivity of dealing with children. poussaint: the law in question was passed in 1948, but it stemmed from a long history of child labor laws, passed since the turn of the century, all designed to protect children from being forced to work in sweatshops and farms, and from abuse at the hands of unscrupulous employers. hurley: they had them employed in situations where they were dealing with explosives, chemicals, around working equipme