New-York tribune., 1901-01-22
TO ABOLISH SWEATSHOPS.
DR.. VAN DYKE AND PRESIDENT HADLEY
CONGRATULATE THE CONSUMERS
LEAGUE ON THE WORK
IT IS DOING.

The annual meeting OF the Consumers League
held yesterday afternoon No. 156 Fifth-ave
opened with summary OF its growth in ten years
by the president. Mrs. Frederick Nathan who said
that when the league was organized prominent
merchant OF this city declared that il would nor
live year This year the same merchant wrote
a letter OF congratulation because of the league
having received medal for its exhibit the Paris
Exposition in the department Of social economics
Forty houses in this city fits white
list and three asked last year 10 be Investigator
because they wanted TO be placed there. The con-
oitons on which factory store is put on the
white list are: Giving equal pay for work Of equal
value 10 both sexes; paying minimum wages OF Sc
week 10 adult workers; having hours from s a. m.
70 p. m, with three-quarters Of an hour for
luncheon and half-holiday once week during
two summer months; giving compensation for over
time, and various other humane and considerate
regulations.
Mrs Nathan urged the members unite in re-
fusing to receive packages after o'clock because
OF the hardships OF the delivery clerks. In one
house, not the leagues list one delivery clerk
OF seventeen years worked during last Thanksgiv-
Ing week twenty-five hours in succession. without
rest. and then had only five hours granted him
She spoke also OF the thoughtlessness Of women
who give rush orders" for gown TO be made in
TWO three days.
The treasurer's report showed that the leagues
work is outrunning its receipts. a small deficit
having been made up by few individuals after the
report drawn up.
Letters Of commendation from DR.. Dyke, Of
Princeton, and President Hadley Of Yale were
read, after which officers for the ensuing year were
elected follows: President, Mrs Frederick
Nathan; first vice-president, Mrs. Hugh Monroe
Devices second vice president Miss Virginia Potter:
treasurer. Mrs ]. G. Croswell; recording secretary
MIS-. Charles Fairchild, ana corresponding secre-
tary, Miss Emma Brade
Dr. Annie 5. Daniel, visiting physician of the In
urinary Tor Women and Children. gave account
or her experiences among the tenement house work
ers on garments, saying that she constantly sees
coming being made in the midst Of scarlet fever,
ophtheria, measles. pink eve.' tuberculosis and
otner contagious diseases tuberculosis IS almost
universal in the tenement house districts. she af-
hrmed The rate of syment in many ses is one
ana one-haf cents for pair Of trousers. and the
combined efforts OF the family cannot make more
IMAM from 80 10 60 cents day. while the
age trihe over 81 a month for the dens in which
the workers live.
Mrs. Florence Kelley followed and emphasized
the Tact that not merely cheap garments made
In sweatshops. but great deal of so-caled fine
custom work many fashionable tailors having
ing larger part out into sWeated' conditions. I'm
nineteen months twenty thousand licenses for home
work have been granted in the city OF New York
ana IN only a small proportion the conditions
In ali Massa achusetts only fifteen hundred such
licenses have been given in the time. II is
not an accident that the best conditions exist in
Massachusetts For years IL has had honest factory
inspection by not afraid of losing their places
as punishment for doing their duty"
Mr.. Brooks made a strong appeal 10 the women
10 bring their conscences into the matter and cited
many cases in England and New South Wales TO
prove that the reforms that the league for are
Practicable and lead 10 business success.
Even stronger the appeal made by Mr. Bisp-
nam in his recitation OF LOWells ''Stanzas
dom" and Hoods Song Of the Shirt