The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-20
MEMBERS FOR CHILD LABOR COMMITTEE Effort to Enroll Many Local
 Citizens LETTERS TO BE SENT Each Citizen Interested in Work Will Receive Personal Appeal-Miss
 Josephine Eschenbren-
 ner Writes

The national child labor committee, with headouarters in New York city, is preparing to follow up the splendid re- suits of the conference recently held Tn Birmingham with vigorous endeavor to obtain large membership among the people here who unanimously indorsed the child labor movement.
 To this end the committee is preparing to send to the people of Birmingham personally an appeal in behalf of the movement, urging that they continue their interest in the movement for aiding work ing children by enrolling in the member ship of the organization.
 According to information received by The Age-Herald from Miss Josephine Eschenbrenner, membership secretary, this letter of appeal will be issued by the membership committee of which Dr. Felix Adler and pr. Samuel McCune Lindsay are members.
 "It is to this membership. the minimum fee for which is very nominal, that we invite the citizens of Birmingham" writes Miss Eschenbrenner. Through their help and the splendid cooperation of the press in your city, our last confer ence was in many respects the best In the history of the committee. Our delegates came away with new inspiration and new zeal for the work"
 The national child labor committee have expressed themselves as highly pleased with the progress of the move ment in receiving the favor of the public as was demonstrated at the recent con- ference in this city. The committee has already begun to realize fruits from their effort here as is shown in the following telegram received from the secretary of tine membership committee:
 An interesting aftermath of the con- ference, along membership lines. is a 50 draft just received from a prominent Bir- mingham merchant for membership sub scriptions of s5 each for six members of his firm and his family"
 The following is the form of the letter of appeal which will be sent out to the citizens of Birmingham with a subscrip- ton blank inclosed:
 At the recent splendid child labor con- ference in Birmingham the appeal for the working children was made to you by Colonel Roosevelt, Jane Addams and other leading citizens.
 "For the sake of the child in your ram- fly who is well nurtured and well cared for, will you do something for the chil- dren who are helpless through their own ignorance, their parents poverty or greed, or their employers avarice?
 "A chance for childhood, a chance to develop, chance for an education that will fit them to earn an honest, de- cent living-that Is all we ask for the working children. With Colonel Roosevelt we feel that the conservation of childhood is of infinitely greater importance than the conservation of natural resources. Probably you attended some of our meetings. You will want to preserve the inspiration given you there by co-operat- ing with us as one of our members and thus helping solve the greatest problem of the present day. The addresses given at the conference will be sent in book form to all of our mmbers. we need your help. We hope you will give it for the protection of the chill 6ren. Yours very truly,
 FELIX ADLER,
 "EDWARD T. DEVINE, LILLIAN D. WALD, SAMUEL M'CUNE LINDSAY, Membership Committee''