The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-05-22
FEDERATED CLUB WOMEN IN SESSION IN DECATUR
Many of the Delegates Had Forgotten to Arm Them
 selves with Credentials Second bays Meeting Full of Interest

audience. it is the one that has occupied ring the past year Clubs complain of not being listed. and how can we list you
 If we are ignorant of your very existence Listen: Here is the case of a club that earnest women; they have actually been members of the Federation for two years. this. | believes is the third, and yet their name has never appeared in the club or gan. HOT was 1t in the list of clubs of the Montevailo program. Whose fault was this? Surely not that of the officers. If we cannot reach and know of one an other through the. organ and officers where is the need Of them
 l; Tilese remarks will probably impress you as batng somewhat unusual as De- ing embodied in the report of a Cores popding Secretary; but % shall ,i not t nave so,s the. weakness that must be strengthened before we can grow iuo stroDg. body that can say. we have a perfect system by which we carry on our york
 TIME OF MEETING CHANGED.
 Mrs Albert Goodwyn of Montgomery. made d motion to change the time Of meeting from May to the second al Iues1as ,hs motion by moving ito meet in the falf and it was carried. 0 A discussion--limited to ten. minutee-rGn Women. on School and Municipal Boards was held and Mrss Goodwin of Mont- Eomery. Mrs. Craighead Of Mobile. made strong speeches in favor of women on these boards and giving their qudllnca- M tions % for such places. P Mrs & .. 7. ,,,oE orr ing business of this work and polling 1t before the next Legislature. She sug- gested that a committee for this purpose be appointed and that committee work for this as reform movement in Ala hama, and that the director Of each ciub work to create interest in her club on this line and report to the Federation Committee. E On this line Mrs. Goodwyn made the follewing motions which were carried:
 Moved that the Federation urge the right of women to serve on the Scnooi Boards of. the State" Moved that. the Federation refer this matter to the State Legislative Ed'lca- uonal Committee and that the directors of clubs urge special discussions ot the subject endeavoring to create senu- ment that will influence our Legislature. l Mrs. Street of Guntersville. read Mrs. Thomas Owen's report as Chairman or the Legislative Committee on Cniid La ber and Boys Reformatory.
 MRS. THOMAS OWENS REPORT. ! As there has been no session of the General Assembly of Alabama since ,1is .nts | cornmittee was appointed it has no results | to report. However, It has not been ldie | and begs to- present some facts and rec. omrnendations for the consideration or I this conventien h | There are three matters of vital im- | portance to the State which have received | the support of the A. F. W. C. ana VIII | be brought by our successors of the Leg | islative Committee to the attention of the I forthcoming General Assembly, viz the child labor bill, the financial interests lof the. Industrial Farm for Whl1e Hos ;, I and the requirement of first grdde' cer l tificat, for County Superintendents or | Education.
 | The latter subject Is at present in care 1 of the Educational Committed. put we isce,.....e- .a,-s s-ie s...,.. ": ,,,h committee on the Legislative Committee l as a Federation work before the. Legis- lature should be in group.
 | The chairman of this committee has l conversed with the Governor of Alaba- | ma upon the need of large appropria- | ton for the Industrial Farm for mite | Boys, and is glad to report to the A. F. | W. C. the promise of the Chief Executive | to make a recommendation to the Legis- lature for a liberal appropriation. lie has. AIS int hiS offieial eapactf y. bonna Ep do by the act .chartering the fnstirutfon
 made his annual visit to the school and | pronounces 1t one of the greatest things | ever achieved for the good of the state and a great credit to all concerned Ill US | establishment.
 The demand for legislative protection
 of our little children Was first made by l the Ministers Union of Montgomery ana by the Woman's Christian Temperance E union OI AldDdIilds bULofc hAth lANeiN heart mother of all helpless children, | Irene Ashby Macfldyen came among us l A year a:o when the convention of the ] A. F. w. C. met at MonteVailo she ad- dressed you upon the needs of legislation | for the protection of children working in cotton mills. You there pledged your sup port of the child labor bill hereto ap- pended
 meeting of the Legislature you have had no opportunity to do other than Keep the subject before the public. The Commit
 tee upon Legislation. with aoknowledS. phy, chairman of the Central commit tee beg leave to report the following facts: There are about l,2O0 children | working in the mills of Alabama.
 | There are at least 20.00o children under 14 years of age working in the textile mills of the South. No where else in tht
 world are children allowed to work il the factory, not even in Russia with hel
 recently freed serfs.
 | The hours of labor are rarely less thar
 twelve out of the twenty -four. with :
 half hour for lunch at noon. Many of tn
 children are worked upon the night force
 and often cold water has to be dashed into their faces to keep them awake.
 The wage of the child varies from t' l ? cents per day.
 should not be worked in cotton mills
 First. it is hurtful to them physically
 The noise of the machinery injures thei | long hours, in a standing position pro
 duces diseases that impair the health 0 1.-the girls before they reach maturity. | The monotony of their tasks warp | their minds and dwarfs their bodies Their vision also becomes impaired.
 The linty atmosphere and the chang from hot rooms to the cold air after worl } is over is injurious to their lungs an' they are victims of consumption at al I early age or are peculiarly susceptfhl ! to bneumonia or tuberculosis in som form A horrible form of dropsy also ire Iquently occurs among them.
 Many accidents tranSpire and their fin gers and hand sare mangled with the ma tchinery.
 They cannot enjoy the privilege of tn
 sunshine without which no living thin
 can thrive. -
 Second. their education is neglected. Tn | sight of the negro sending bis child int Q th., school room and the white man send
 ing his into the cotton mill, Is calculate
 the future consider the facts
 The child labor bill would have bee
 passed by the last Legislature had 1t no
 been for the lobby agents of the manu
 lecturers. ,,, |. | arguments and deceive tnt dninf3rHled a | to the bad conditions existing with pic
 lures of the model mills "hers eCndl
 tions are not go bad
 The timid patriot will also be alarme by their threats to So elseWhe"G wit l their capital The natural advantages ar | too great in Alabama for that threat 10 b
 executed. and even if 1t were'a real dar | ger shall we buy prosperity with th
 blood of little children
 Therefore in consideration of the dan
 ger to the child labor bill which Is pos | sihle through the manufacturers lobb