The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-24

dominated by trusts, the rise would be
general, and hence would be a rise in
name only He thought, however, that
experience had not yet shown the trusts
to be able to raise even nominal values,
the whole matter Of price being regu-
lated by the laws Of demand and supply.
Coming to the problems presented by
strikes and lockouts, Mr.. Stickney com
pared their effect in the industrial world
to that of the South American revolutions
upon the politics Of the South American
republics. There might be, he admitted,
justification for an occasional revolution,
but their baneful effects in the southern
continent would. he thought, be readily
admitted by all.
"SocIaI Waste of Child Labor"
Miss Adams subject was 1.-THE Social
Waste of Child Labor" Before she took
it up, however, she devoted several min
utes to a comment upon Mr. St1ckneys
views. Then she congratulated labor or
CARNATIONS upon the fact that the enact
ment Of child labor legislation IN this
country had been due largely to their
efforts.
She said the state, which educates
children, should be allowed some voice IN
their career afterwards, and should be
permitted to say that they should not pc
put to work under improper conditions.
which might, in the end, make lnvalids of
community for support.
Miss Adams then told of the result OF
an investigation made In England, which
showed that factory children-even when
allowed to work only half a day-were, on
an average, four inches shorter than their
more fortunate school friends and from
eight to eleven pounds lighter in weight.
LET u.s. said she, bear the burdens Of
our own generation and let us protect the
children and give them their just oppor-
tunity."
= The Purchaser. = :. I
| The last speaker Of the morning session
| was Florence Kelley, secretary Of the Ma
tional Consumers League, New York.
She spoke en- 1.-THE Indirect Employer. the
Purchaser" and said the key note of the
| convention, so far as she had been able
to discover it, had been a study Of the
relations existing between supply and de-
mand. .2.a- sgslss'
| She then spoke of the interest had by
the consumer in the welfare of the laborer,
pointing out that it was to the consumer
interest to see that labor was clearly, that
it's work was. performed under proper
SANITARY condition and in a healthful man.
ner. She referred to the prevalence of
tuberculosis in the New York tenement
| districts, a disease which, she said, might
readily be scattered broadcast through
| "sweatshop'' clothing; to the adulteration
of food stuffs and to similar evils which,
she said, the public generally disregarded.
If only as matter of self preservation,
she argued that it was the consum ers'
business to see that labor received proper
treatment.
Close Tomorrow Noon.
The illness Of the president, which has
resulted in his being compelled to give up
his plan of coming here, has necessitated
} a change in the program of the conven-
N1,or ant OF Irnc xr,<ac hoH
been the feature of to morrow afternoon s
session. and a business meeting for the
purpose of forming a permanent organiza
ton, was to have been held Tomorrow
night 1t has been decided, however, to
take business up at the close of the reg
: ular morning session, instead; so that the
convention will close tomorrow noon.