The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-16
WORKING CHILDREN
DISCUSSED BY MRS. CRANE
AT F. C. S. MEET. II
Asks Society to Afiliate with National
Child Labor Committee-Hopes to
Establish Washington Bureau.

The principal address of the 105th annual
meeting of the Newark Female Charitable
Society, held in the society building, corner
Hill and Halsey streets, yesterday after
noon, was given by Mrs. Frederick Crane,
of New York, one of the society's asso-
ciate managers, and a member of the ma
tional child labor committee, who talked
on Working Children" giving statistics
as to their number and explaining the con-
ditions in which they worked in various
States. She said that only in thirteen
States are children forbidden to, work OH
dangerous machinery.
Mrs. Crane talked OF the hard labor de-
manded by some trades, saying that forty
years was the limit of working power
among steel rollers, and that there were no
old men in textile mills. She scored the
parasites" ,as she said those who did
not pay sufficient wages to their employees
were called.
at am representing the national child la
Dor committee" said the speaker, land
thai committee is anxious to have every
pastor in the country talk to his congre-
cation Sunday, January 26, about Child
Labor and thus rouse public opinion.
L hCA hAL wa 1CAAA0 w LIZ NAAlln q
Dor law for the District of Columbia"
she, went on, land we must get it through,
for there are no laws governing child la
Dor In that district. 1t is also desired to
stablish a child's bureau at Washington.
We have bureaus to look after vegetables
and animals, but no one cares for the
children" Mrs. Crane said that the bill
restricting the work of children at night
would come up again before the January
Legislature, and she urged the society to
do all 1t could to further its passage.
What you need" she said later, 'Ns
industrial education Tn the public schools,
so that parents will not feel that their
children are wasting time in learning the
higher branches, which will be of little
use to them in after life" She said tina a
petition drawn up by the society would
have weight with those of influence, and
she added that any statistics that the So
ciety could send to the child labor COM
mittee, regarding children and parents,
would be appreciated. She asked that the
society become a member Of the COM
mittee.
Mrs. Crane told of receiving a letter
from Mrs. George ". b. Gushing, president
of the State Consumers League, telling
OF an inspectors report which stated that
in Newark just before the Christmas holt
days he found from thirty to forty children
under age working in department stores.
The speaker declared that present labor
conditions were creating dependents for the
Newark Female Charitable and other So
~cieties.
Mrs. Martin Dennis. the treasurer, said
that the balance from january, 1907, was
$1SO.9S. The years receipts were $9,953.21,
and the expenditures were $9,S0451. The
endowment fund balance from last year
was $4,6S0.22 and the total receipts wene
S. 90.11, of which $4,000 was disbursed in
bonds and mortgages.
Mrs. Joseph H. Knowles, Of New York,
president of the society, presided, opening
the session with prayer, and a number OF
songs were rendered by thirty girls from
the school of Miss Margaretta T. Craven,
accompanied on the piano by Miss M. E..
Tappan. Little d Lee, Of the kitchen
garden, rendered a solo. HE Comes"
The meeting was followed by an in
formal tea.