Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-29
WHERE AL NAY HELP.
Mothers Congress Of Women Tells
Of Investigation Into Condition
oflFactory Employees
And Also How Every Consumer
May Aid by Influence Of
Patronage.
Sad Conditions in Some Of the
Southern Factories Capital
Comment.

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Comment.
lSpecial4to oTimes-Republican
Des Moines, May 29.-'Every pur-
lchaser of ordinary cotton cloth can lind
4 out whether it is made in New England
or in the SOUTH said Florence Kelly, of
4 New York, in speaking of her work OF I
j investigation of the conditions OF fac
tory employees thruout the country. Mrs.
i Kelly was commissioned by the Con-
u s,umers' League 10 visit factories and
ascertaint the conditions under which the
lemployes worked, and especially as to
whether children We're employed con-
. Itrary to law. She had previously Deen
factory inspector in Chicago for four
/ years. and she thoroughly understands
J. her business. Mrs. Kelly lived in Hull
!. House With Jane Adams for number
of years. Then she went to New York.
], where she lives in the tenement district
among people she is trying to help. She
i was one of the most conspicuous, as
) we'll as one of the most practical women
who attended the mothers congress.
/ She is certainly a woman with a mes
: saga messag ge which interests all peo-'
j, pie with hearts and sympathies.
. II this cotton cloth is made in New
: England" continued Mrs. Kelly, "it is
r made under wholesome conditions in
. clean factories by fairly well paid labor,
! and these factories are subject to rigid
y laws, well enforced. Ifit is made in the
! south, where they now boast that they
flror JurS "a mo ffi iSsO made hv
. tha enslavement of little children and
Il women under5condtiona that are dis
!. graceful in the extreme. and it can be
!, made cheaper there because of the
!, lscheaper labor that is used. So say
!, that4every woman who wants to con-
!, tribute to the cause of humanity can do
!. iso by refusing to buy southern-made
]. cotton goods, which are produced With
+ out any restriction upon the employ
= ment of child labor or of the hours of
: labor or wages to any one. The great
!. :, difficulty in ncuring this evil is that wom-
. en- do not seem oscare for anything but
Z the quality and price Of the goods they
buy. 1t is difficult to make manufactur
i, ers believe that there iss a new element
- =. coming which vii force its attention up
!, on them and compel them to recognize
!. !. the right Of the child to education ant
= health.
= Not many of us can give much mon.
! = ey to philanthropy, but we can at leas
!, : contribute our influence thru what We
=, buy. Weican insist upon having article!
- THAT are made under wholesome condi-
! : tions The trouble. = we have not fel
! the duty of knowing these things. 1t i:
:. : an astonishing fact. but it is true
!. that the trade which is best protected
~ ~ ii, this way. where the work,
= = men are employed under the bss
=, Econditions. is the cig;lrmakers' trade
~ !. Thru the labor organizations the cigar
=, makers have made themselves felt
=. y Work. kingmen are nearly all smoker
~ ~ and they have needed the appeals t
buy only such cigars as are made b,
workmen who have a decent place t
work in and are paid fair wages. 1t |
e. not pleasant for women TO think abou,
p- but il is a fact. that cigarmakers ar
better cared for than any of those en-
an ployed in the needle trades. IL you wi
liz watch two Immigrants arriving in sNeN
5of York, one a ciSarmaker and the othe
,as a garmentmaker. you will find that in
ys few years the cisarmakers is doing vel
,si. supporting his family co.nfortabl,
M keeping all his bills paid keeping u
mi his life insurance and his non-employ
MI
MS healthy and happy, and at the SAN
ing time ne Is hsiplls " .Mahe M esile oi u
,av5 -a..,.entrnaker and his family. Bot
us. We're equally industrious, equally skill
nd full in their trades. but the carmen
Of maker works under such wretched an
ec- unsanitary conditions for such poor pa
rms that he must forever be slave unit
1.-THE women of the country wake up ar
leo exert themselves to improve his cond
es. ton by refusing to buy goods that a
-er made in sweat shops
of
ap- Mrs Kelly told of a Jewish journe,
man tailor who was her back-do
ave neishbor in New York. This tailor. s.
day said was a very skiilful and industl
su- Gus workman who made the fine ga
.er- ments sold in Fifth avenue and the
OBJ claimed to be made on the premises
and fancy prices paid for them accor
ingly. He could afford to have but o
room with light. In this he must
dge his work, his wife must do the cooki
the and the washinging, for it was the on
his place she could see and the childre
ock who were faithfully kept in scho
ced must here do their studying. She SO
she never went to bed so late or got
Ok. so early that this mans machine W
mia. not running. In lHlS connection SIle pt
.ad- high tribute to the Jewish work.
)hio people. who, she said, We're the M
He temperate, industrious, thrifty andfla
om- abiding of all the working class
.pril These conditions. Mrs. Kelly said. p
1try vail. in all the clothing trades Her m
1863. sion is to stir up the women and ,
ntry working classes and organize agail
these conditions and recognize TIL
the duty to society by using their influel
1856. to put stop to them. Those "
,self have thoroughly Investigated tn
that conditions and know Of the gr
,hen danger to society that lies in
nber continuance of such abuses, Won
was why it is that organized labor has
! NJ. taken up the cause with more ener
no using the great power Of their org
ization to make it improbable to
upon the market goods made un
conditions such as these. Mrs X,
eliza has made great impression in
died Moines and Iowa and the merchants
still this state are sure to feel the efre
Four Of what she has done
rests s. -
John F. Dillon. ~ sreat New Z