The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-29
INDUSTRIAL coMMITTIE or
 GENERAL FEDERATION

The circular of the industrial Cofnmittee of the General Federation of Women's Clubs is being sent to the club women of the United States. It's suggestions appeal to the women at home with equal force and significance:
 and space is given to it's full text because of it's general interest, and for the sake of the practical lines of its proposed in. vestigations and efforts. l To the Federated Clubs: | The Industrial Committee desires to bring to your attention the importance 1 of having in each club a Standing Com- mittee on Industrial Conditions, com- posed of progressive members who have
 devoted some time and thought to ln- dustrial Problems. The Committee re. spectfully suggests that at least one meet. ing of each club should be devoted to the consideration of some feature of the in- dustrial problem turing the year; and that. whenever 1t is possible. three meet inys should be set spart for this purpose. In order that the working woman, the
 working child and tine organizations formed for the purpose of prom ,sins their interests should each receive separate con- sidcratln.
 The Committee also requests each club to have talks on current events to in- clrde events occurring In the industrial world; and suggests th1t d record be kept of all data cn this sunject and at the end oi the year a ;ummary given, in order that club members may have a knowledge of local conditions The Committee begs lat in arranging programs of annual meetings of State Federations. space should be accorded for addresses on some rhases of present in- dustrial conditions. A list of speakers will t,o fur Il, a ada n h.a Chairman of the Indusi.ral Committee of the General Federation of Womens Clubs
 The Committee asks that a -chedule of the lays in reference 70 the employment of women anu child .'cn in each State be prepared by the ,roposed Standing h. dustrial Committee and forwarded not later than December 1st, l98, to the un-
 dersigned. It recommends trat each State Federation of clubs should study the con- ditions of labor In that State. and en- deavor to raise the standard of conditions by suggesting and agitating for amend ments to existing statutes; or by work ing for the enforcement of present laws if these laws already come up to the standlrd of the Massachusetts Labor Law.
 The Committee, moreover, wishes to plead with the Federated Clubs and State Federations to promote the appointment | of women as ia story inspectors wherever
 women and chil iren are at works | It also suggests that ihe clubs promote | the agitation for juvenile courts and pro- | bation officers wherever these are not in force. Es,ecia,ly needed is attention to
 the children engaged in street occupa- tions. who are too often both workers and | Juvenile delinquents, encouraged by
 thoughtless patrons and neglected by the
 schools until by the commission of some petty offense these. the most unfortunate | of all the workers, come into the courts. Maud Nathan, Chairman. Although women ave served as in- | speptors since 1889, their number does not
 exceed twenty y-five in the whole country | at the present time. Il The Committee recommends the follow ing bibli oaraphy:
 ''The Social Unrest" John Graham
 Brooks.
 Democracy and Social Ethics" Jane | Addams.
 The Higher Life of Working People, " | W. Walker Stephens.
 Problems of Modern Industry Sid
 ney and Beatrice Webb.
 "Economics, Arthur Twining Hadley.
 The Distribution of Wealth" John
 Bates Clark.
 Evolution of Modern Capitalism" John | A. Hobson.
 Political Economy tPI.t VI. Plol. II Richard T. Ely.
 "The Citizen in His Relation to the Industrial Situat,on." See Essay: The
 Citizen and the Consumer" Henry C..
 Potter, D. D. ILL. D.
 "The Woman Who Tolls" Mrs. John Van Worst, Marie Van Worst.
 Henry Worthington. Idealist," Marga- | ret Sherwood
 l Women and Economies" Charlotte | Perkins Stetscn.
 How the Other Half Lives" Jacob | Riis.