New-York tribune., 1900-01-30
To AID THE TOILERS.
ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING OF THE CON
SUMERS' LEAGUE.
ADDRESSES BY MRS. NATHAN AND DR. FELIX
ADLER-EDwIN MARKHAM READS THE
OMAN WITH THE HOE"

The ninth annual meeting of the Consumers
League of this city held in the assembly hall
Of the Presbyterian Building, at No. 156 Fifth-ave
yesterday afternoon The members of the league
and its friends out in force, and the hall
crowded TO the doors, many being compelled to
stand
Mrs. Frederick Nathan, president of the league,
opened the meeting by reading the annual report
She referred 10 the lax manner in which good laws
already on the statute books are enforced, and
urged upon the people present the Importance of
reform in industrial methods. She recalled nota-
bic infringement of the law during the recent hol-
day season. when many shops were open evenings
and minors employed by them long before December
Is, Notwithstanding the fact that the prohibits
q minor "a boy under sixteen and a woman under
twenty-one) TO be employed more than ten hours a
day OF sixty hours a week. except from December
Is to January /
OF the 1854 persons engaged in the clothing trade
in this State, she said 8304 work in New-York
City. The National Consumers League, which
began work last May, has adopted a label and has
ALREADY signed contracts with several manufact-
urers OF women's white muslin underwear of shirt
waists waists, corsets, sheets pillow cases cur
tains skirt and stocking supporters and children's
wash dresses. Their factories have been approved
and inspected by the league and the manufacturers
nave agreed to maintain the following conditions::
That all provisions of the State Factory law are
only on goods manufactured by said manufacturer
Z On SAID premises; that no child under the age of
sixteen years shall be employed permitted or
suffered to work on such premises; that no person
sAai De employed or suffered permitted to
"ork ID SAID factory longer than ten hours in any
one cay or sixty hours in any one week or after
o'clock at night or before o'clock in the morn
Aiig, excepting only the night Watchman. Also to
SSaiOW Ie duly accredited representatives of said
.edsus 10 inspect said factory any and all rea-
toilaple times, and to comply with all reasonable
requests made by said league for improving con-
1Iuons; otherwise 10 discontinue the use Of the
tSoeI forthwith. and for failure TO comply with
5als demand the manufacturer to pay as lquidated
manages TO said league the OF 800
The result Mrs. Nathan said, of sending work
INTO tenement rooms was to drag down wages and
drag out the length of the working day She en-
phasized the danger of garments tinged with dis
ease and said that inspector not long since
round child sick with scarlet fever while the
mother sat by the bed finishing garment which
she was hurrying through in order to get fhe
ton. 0 i'Si upon It's coiApIe-
Afs. Nathan asked that every member of the
~ carry at all times in her purse the label of
sSihents shall bear IL before the purchase is made
elesSness OF consumers' she said in closing
~ iLssponsible for many Of the hardships of the
q. he secretary's report was read bv Mrs ~
o4ssokes, and was followed by the election Of the
g3ancsrs and Governing Board The officers are.
5lesloent, Mrs Frederick Nathan first vice-presi-
ns;s mrs hugh Munroe Devices; second vice
ed,t ,ItmeIl; recording secretary Miss Bertha 81 Sec
Or corresponding secretary Miss Emma T2race
Nils Governing Board Miss Laura T3iIIings
F51t+ L. 3 Caldwell, Miss Helen F. Greene Miss
Pim PPiIwm Parks, Mrs. G. A. Pmpton. Miss Mar I T.
Ssn5agrsSo Miss Mary d. Stafford Miss Mary r
FTajaoto Mrs. Mary Kingsbury- khoZyitch yAs,Ss
f4eips Stokes Mrs. L n. Phelps Stokes