The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-05-04

from the east in quantities amazing 10 ]
contemplate. The managers Of the two 4
largest stores in salt Lake haye given /
me the following figures with regard to /
the muslin underwear and shirt waists /
alone sold By them during 1901;
Walker Bros. shirt waisfs.-.....- 1916 !
z, c. NJ. l. shirt waists ---------.-- $500 s
1876
Walker Bros, underwear -----.--. sos +.
Z. G. NJ. l.. underwear .....---.-..1S $4,000 (
2O,sos
Surely nothing more is needed than /
consideration Of these facts from only
TWO stores in one single center OF west /
ern population to make clear how great |
is the volume of sWeatshOp goods that !
flows into the west yearly; and be-
cause the producer is merely the agent
OF the consumer, il follows as the night
the day that if we shake on our IN
dlHerence in this natter II We learn
the morals of spending money II we
permit ourselves TO become conscious
of the power within our hands and then
act we shall be able to rejoice in the
rem0delliug and transforming Of the
industry Of the needie-workers, now
the most disorganized. demoralized and
wretched under the sun
1t is with a pride Of the Pardona0le
sort that / bring TO this convention
the word that Utah. young as state,
sparse of population, has taken the IN
itiatiye along this line among the COM
monwealths OF the far west. There the
spell Of apathy and uncOncern has been
broken and we have a State COnsum-
ers' League. which is 10 become aux
iliary to the National Consumers
League, and so will be a factor in the
prosecution Of this work throughout
the country.
The organization Of the Utah State
League has been brought about BY the
/, industrial committee Of the State Fed
GRAFTON of Clubs and the plan of cam
paign found effective has been, by way
of introduction, TO have presented to
t the clubs, by members of the industrial
| committee. the subject of the COnsum-
/ ers' League; conditions in the east that
make such a movement necessary
/ there; the risks the west runs from the
| danger of infection in importing sweat
/ shop goods; the possibility that even
now we have the inception of the
] sweating system in our own midst, so
I subtle and insidious is il in its initial
stages; and the opportunity for broad
helpfulness in giving aid 10 the east in
4 her endeavor to free herself from this
! curse of industrial oppression
With scarcely an exception, the re-
/ Spouse has been prompt. cordial, gen
erOus. Then the president has been
asked to appoint a club industrial COM
mittee, whose duty il shall be TO solicit
names for membership In the league,
collect the dues and hold herself in
/ readiness to cooperate with the state
committee in any Of the work calling
for united effort
Monthly reports of progress as to
membership, interviews with mer-
chants. papers or talks given before
clubs, etc, are rendered by the various
club committees to the members OF the
state committee, the chairman OF
which, in her turn. shall report TO the
secretary and treasurer of the National
Consumers League.
Although not the slightest attempt
had been made at the forming Of a
league until last November; though
after that time il was necessary to lay
the foundations, to begin the propa-
ganda. by the education of the senti-
ment Of the club women to the point OF
interest IN the question, results have
been most gratifying.
Already the work Of the member OF
the state committee in Ogden has
borne fruit in large measure, for there
three stores are now carrying goods
bearing the label.
IF any Of you are able to see the
cuts of garments in this advertisement
taken from an Ogden paper. you VIII
appreciate as ] do that they are very
ugly nightgOwns and skirts, indeed
that are displayed here (the crudity OF
the cuts doing no justice 10 the under
wear ITSELF, so ugly as to be positive
offense, I dare say, in the eyes OF the
chairmen of art committees or mem
bers thereof who are present; but since
. this advertisement contains the words
Every package of this underwear bears
, the label Of the National Consumers
T / League, and represents the first steT
gained in Utah's crusade against tht
: uslholy methods Of the sweater and tht
tribute he levies upon defeated human
) life, 10 is TO US a veritable thing oil
, beauty.
+ And now the time has come to ash
: whether Utah is to be allowed to stanC
alone in this matter. Join US, wOmeT
, ! of the great northwest, women Of Cali
] fornia Texas. Montana, and then tr!
: to conceive what glad tidings they vii
be that cross our mountain barrier
D / carrying cheer and renewed courage 4
? them who have borne the heat ant
2 | burden of the day.
= LET US demonstrate that federation
= Is no empty word, but that I'm truth
signifies to US union in hope, in aspira
( ton, in endeavorl
\ Let us prove that so far as the clul
s women OF this country are concerned
= these are United States indeed; tina
e no plea of the east can fall upon dea
e ears in the west; that for the sOutl
n there is always ready response in tn
e hearts of the north, Let US know n
e place, no section, in the work tina
I makes for righteousness