During 1916, Congress passed the first child labor Bill, the Keating-Owen Act. This act banned the transportation among the states of products of factories, shops or canneries employing children under 14 years of age, of mines employing children under 16, and the products of any of these employing children under 16 who worked at night or more than eight hours a day. As families moved from their rural dwellings to cities such as Follansbee where factories were on the rise, children became an asset to employees as cheap labor. Kids as young as 14 were working 8 hours a day for five dollars, an excellent wage during this era. However, children who worked in steel mills and coal mines suffered from health conditions such as bronchitis and tuberculosis due to poor ventilation and deplorable conditions. When the child labor law was passed, it forced many students to quit profitable jobs in the steel mills.