The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-10-30
The CONSUMERS LEAGUE.
STATE BRANCH TO BE ORGAN
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In Bridgeport ON November Bob
ject is to Secure Liquidation Guaran-
teeIng Sanitary Conditions la Places
Of Manufacture of Wearing Apparel
and Other Commodities-An May
Join Who VIII.
Bridgeport, Oct ga public meeting
gor the purpose of organizing a Con-
necticut branch of the Consumers
League will be held at the Olivet
church, corner of Main street and North
avenue, on Thursday, November 10, at
1890 a. m. Mr.. John Graham Brooks,
president of the National Consumers
League, will present plan for organi-
cation, and Mr.. William Fisher, profess
SCR of political economy at Wesleyan
university, will make an address. All
men and women in the state of Con-
necticut who are interested in the work
of the Consumers League are invited to
be present and to join the Connecticut
branch.
The Consumers League proposes ''to
educate public opinion and to endeavor
so to direct it's force as to promote bet
ter conditions among the workers, while
securing to the consumers exemption
from the dangers attending unwhole-
some conditions. The special function
of the National Consumers League is to
secure the adequate investigation of the
conditions under which goods, particu-
Iarly clothing for women and children,
are made, in order to enable purchasers
to distinguish between the product of
the sweat-shop and that of the well-or-
dered factory. Any given employer is
helpless to improve conditions unless
sustained by public opinion, by law, and
by the action Of consumers.
President Hadley of Yale university
says: sit has for some time seemed
clear to me that the consumers as q
body could exercise more influence in
lettering the conditions of trade pro.
duction than could be looked for from
any other quarter. The individual
workman is nearly helpless in this mat.
ter, because there are so many who are
ready to take his place under the ole
conditions, if he insists on better ones
The individual capitalist may do mucf
good in a limited way. but his actor
rarely results in lettering general trade
conditions. Organizations of laborer:
or of capitalists, speaking very broadly
have their attention so much occupied
with other objects as to give little tim,
and thought to this one. The govern
ment occasionally accomplishes some
thing in this way but most of the eff
forts result in statutes which remain
dead letter-worse than nothing>at all
because they give the impression of &C
complishing great deal and actual.
do very little. 1t remains to be seel
just how far organizations of consu
f1ers can be successful where so man,
other agencies have failed: but I fee
sure the experiment will be worth try
ing and will many times repay the eff
fort which 1t COSTS"
Professor Fisher of Wesleyan univer
sity says: II rank the Consumers
League as one of the few perfectly SAT
and simple means whereby the NOR
happy of the world may help the unfor
tunate."
Any one desiring pamphlets or infor
nation concerning the Consumers
League may address Mrs. G. A. Jamie
son of 816 North avenue
The call for the meeting is signed b
John Graham Brooks of Cambridge
Mass, president of the National Consu
mers' League: Willard Fisher of Mid
dletown, Sarah S. Whittlesey of Ne,
Haven, acting professor of politica
economy at Wesleyan university, Fran
ces Sheldon Bolton Of New Haver
president Of the Connecticut Congress
of Mothers; the Rev. George r. Mont
gomery of this city. Alma E. Taylor
president of the Bridgeport Civic club
Mary M. Abbott of Waterbury, presi
dent of the State Federation of VIC
mems clubs and Louise G. Jamisson c
this city, chairman of the industris
committee of the State Federation.