Bisbee daily review., 1908-04-04
PROMINENT MEN
CONDEMN CHILD
LABOR IN j. S.
Roosevelt, Taft, Cardinal Glib
bons and Others Members
of Organization Now In Con-
vention at Atlanta.

ATLANTA, Ca. April S.-Several
hundred men and women, including
religious workers, educators. philan-
thropists and others of wide promi-
nence, assembled in Atlanta today to
discuss the question OF securing ade-
quate protection for the hundreds OF
| thousands of toiling children through
out the United States. The occasion
| is the fourth annual meeting of the
National Child Labor committee, an
| organization which has already ac-
complished much. in the direction of
solving the problem of child labor in
factories, mines and other industries.
There is perhaps no body in the
United States more widely represen-
tatfve than the National Child Labor
committee. Among its noted mem
bers are President Roosevelt, Secre-
airy Taft, Cardinal Gibbons. eA-fresi-
dent Cleveland, Senator Tillman. Miss
Jane Adams, Governor Hoke Smith
of Georgia, President Eliot of Har-
ward University, Felix Adler and Gif-
ford Pinchot.
The objects of the committee as
outlined in the call for the present
gathering are to assist in protecting
children by suitable legislation against
premature or otherwise injurious en-
ployment, and thus to aid in secur-
ing for them an opportunity for ele-
mentary education and physical de-
velopment sufficient for the demands
of citizenship and the requirements
of industrial efficiency
The initial session today was held
in the auditorium of the Piedmont
hotel. After the preliminary business
of organization had been disposed Of
the committee listened to addresses
by Senator Roberts of Pennsylvania
and General Secretary o. r. Lovejoy
Senator Roberts discussed the ques-
ton. What is Good Child Labor
Law" and Secretary Lovejoy took as
his subject, Uniformity of State
Laws" Ex-President Cleveland and
Secretary Taft sent letters expressing
their sympathy with the work of the
committee and regretting their inabil-
ity to attend the conference IN per-
son. During the remaining two days
of the conference the following inter
esting program of papers and al
dresses will be carried out:
Friday afternoon-"Child labor and
Education" Presiding Officer A. ].
McKelway; "Child Labor and Practi-
cal Education" o. r. Loyeioy; Com
pulsory Education, the Solution of the
Child Labor Problem" Lewis w. Par
ker of South Carolina; Scholarships
for Working Children" Homer Folk,
New York city.
Friday evening-Annual address by
DR.. Felix Adler, chairman of the com
mittee; THE Basis of the Anti-ChiId
Labor Movement, Child Labor in
New England" Everett w. Lord, sec
rotary of the New England states;
"The Leadership of the Child" A. J.
McKelway, secretary of the southern
states: "The Child and the Mill'' Don
Marquis of Atlanta.
1 Saturday morning-Reports Of state
and local committees; Essentials in
! Factory Inspection a symposium OF
factory inspectors off the various
states, Hon John Morgan of Ohio,
Miss Jean Gordon of Louisiana, Chas.
Daugherty of Oklahoma, and others.
Saturday Misunderstanding Off
Ger, Dr. Felix Adler. General theme,
/ ''The Child and the State THE
| Federal Investigation of Child Labor -
Hon Charles P. Neil, United States
| commissioner of labor; "The Consum-
er's Responsibility for Child Labor"
Mrs. Florence Kelly; Social Cost of
Accident, Ignorance and Exhaustion. I"
Prof. Charles E. Henderson of the
University of Chicago; "The Scope of
National and State Regulation of
Child us.oor," DR.. s. NJ. Lindsay OF
| Columbia University.
Saturday ACKNOWLEDGEMENT theme
THE Ethical and Religious Aspects
of Child Labor" Presiding officer,
Chancellor kirkland of Vanderbilt
University. 'The Employers Respon-
sibility for Child Labor" Hon. W. A.
Covington of Georgia; Child Labor
| and Criminality," Judge N. B. Feagin
of Alabama: THE Psychology of the
Child" Rev. John w. Stage. D. D., of
Birmingham, Ala, THE People and
the Protection of Children" Hon.
Hoke Smith, governor of Georgia.
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