New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-01
CHILD LABOR MEETING
President Roosevelt Comments Con-
sumers' League for It's York.

child labor WIS the foremost topic al the six
tee-th annual meeting Of the Consumers League.
ned yesterday afrerncor in the Hudson Theatre.
and the mosr important utterance upon the sub
,ect came from President Roosevelt Writing TO
Ms. Frederick Nathan president OF the league IN
Ger cate OF January .. the President said:
-, ~ e- L,.aT drs. Nathan: Permit me thru YOU
- ers ny earnest hope for the success OF the
thocio appeal peculiarly every good citizen for
those y0u befriend are greatly In need If friends
selves am particularly Interested IN your efforts
70 L-pt.se tae conditions under which working
seF-s 40 Their work ~ The great shops. and have
-a--r~- - - -lt!tst IA your eHoTt 10
nL1cIy-cllefy. think. from the beneAciares of
eminent with work which should be done bv the
- 80 80 6e' slL ! would always rather have
thorltes work out So, rfor-, ne SIC hu.
= ne state authorities GO not &C az thew sboUd ~
L.a,tstS Or such vital Importance the whole ma
Lo! as this or child labor then there VIII be no
80. ll'e oLL foE the national government 70 inter
- an STRIVING 10 secure either final action or
re~ nv 80 80 s-LG moro Investigation Of the
4rr,e ~ So a5ilhorlty OF Congress At the present
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
Governor Hughes. who advocated child labor
legislation in his irst message TO the Legislature
S' sent his good wishes IT letter q regret and
senator Albert !. Beverage. author OF the pending
OH 70 exclude the product OF factories ennlo,,r
children under fourteen from interstate cor77,erce
teleErapned at the last moment that he would he
1fahie 10 be present Senator Beveridge had been
announced as speaker, but IN his telegram he
said. The battlefield Is here" Mrs Nathan n
Teacing the telegram. explained that this was the
crucial week Tor Senator Beveridges bill and he
1oFe me meeting adjourned e TO send him
telegram II good wishes for the measure.
airs. Nathan presided. and in her annual report
SAD INIT while the results OF the new Labor law
5ao eeen sXceiieat many things still remained 10
&c oeEe- Arnoag other things she mentioned the
oeSs o. eleven years OF age employed In theatres
10 pass programmes and ice water
Health
poratton Counsel last October" said Mrs Nathan
lSI a. OPINION as ~ whether this class could b
ton has been taken vet"
Mr. Nathan also alluded 70 the little tenement
mouse WORKERS - Being unprotected by law, and
5 q z sl,- zlIl q seven E2o had pulled bast
l-eI .oMer --mcs through 50 much sitting IN
Mrs Florenee Kelley replied to some criticisms
OF the Bererdge bin
Esgr@ee TITS IL re o y4 ot immigrants ana
y ne cotton factories IL the South. The Negro
Who are IN the factories ana they are native chill
PIE congratulate themselves also the statement
bureau that over million OF the 10000 bread
cultural labor But this Is not farm labor done
before and after school II Is all-day labor, done
FIVE hundred thousand Illiterats children on the
Southern farms. it should be remembered also
that the figures Of this bulletin are seven years
old SO little 20 care for child toilers that
AS for leaving the protection Of the children TO
The state governments. Mrs Kelley said.
The states where the children need pro
lection ere doing least TO protect them In some
states they have sham laws excluding from their
operation the children Of widows and OF aged
disabled fathers. and some fathers keep them
selves d. 2 permanently disabled state by the
help u their 'moCnshine' stills"
Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes made a plea for Justice
You may Justify unearned profits. though 7 DO
not STE said. but, If You them, at least
that they are produced under conditions as fats
as possible. L IS curious blindness that makes
= possible FOR people 10 enjoy every advantage at
fbc cost o. others without a qualm OF conscience
20 long as they give away part OF what they re-
cciEc in philanthropy. Il Is easy 70 move them
wiki charitable appeals, but when II comes down
% their dividends they VIII not bulge an inch
oar best men and our best women do this, and
hut how can love God, whom have not
feen, 4 We 90 not love our brother, whom we have
SEEM
other speakers were Mrs. Charlotte Perkins
Gilman and Monsiguor NJ. J. Lavele, who con-
NeZed the blessings anG good wishes OF Arch
riscop Farley. The good wishes OF other proui-
ter In, grateful recognition of the fact that the
Consumers League IS the champion OF early clos
i1g ana ~ the rights OF a large class or the un,
protected wage earners, especially women END
girls" and promising the cooperation Of the fiFn-
IN circulating literature Of the organization
md commencing It 10 their people IN 2tner ways
signed by Bishop Henry Goldman Potter. ! nonas
p slicer Henry a. Stimson. Henry Mottet
stlres David II Greer, Leighton Parks. j. kQss
Stevenson. william r. Richards, J. Lewis PARKS
Charles r. Parkhurst, william r. Huntington
John p Peters II Pereira Aendes, Joseph silver
Tie following officers were reelected: t'reH4delll
Mrs Frederick Nathan; first v1c@-presi'l"n, PISS
Hugh MunT5e Devices; treasurer Mise AMI ~, NIeI-
sou; record. NJ secretary. Miss l.fl9 H. Ndou4i5I-
ton. and c.,.Eesnonding secretary Mrs. George X
p Wade.