Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-08
FOR CHILD WORKERS
Conference to Harmonic La.
Dor Laws in States.
MEETS AT BIRMINGHAM
Distinguished Men and Women to
Attend Committee Sessions
Beginning Tomorrow.

BIRMINGHAM. Ala March S..A
countrywide agitation TO harmonic the
child labor laws of the United States will
be set afoot at the opening OF the sew
enth annual conference of the National
Child Labor Committee here tomorrow.
| This three-day meeting. March o. ~ and
II, will be one of the most important
conventions OF an organization which
numbers among its members some of the
most influential men and women in the
United States and will be addressed by
/ speakers who are known throughout the
| length and breadth OF the land as the
fearless champions OF reforms Among
| these Will be ex-President Theodore
Roosevelt. Jane Adams, the maya zine
writer of Chicago; DIR. Felix Adler,
founder OF the Society for Ethical Gull
| ture and chairman of the National Child
Labor Committee and many others.
There is perhaps no subject so vital to
| the welfare OF the coming race as the
proper regulation of child labor. This
TACT has long been recognized by think
ers and writer's throughout the land and
for many years the child abor oreaniza-
| ton has sought to SO regulate the en-
ploNment of children that early conta CT
with labor would not dwarf Juvenile
workers mentally or physically Many
prominent men and women were enlisted
in this cause, bills looking toward the
welfare of the child were drafted and
lslators in those states most given to the
employment Of children. These in many
cases nave been successful, great num-
| Der OF employers coming TO the aid of
wishes without state legislation. The re-
forms as far is they have gone have
been highly satisfactory. and it is in the
hope that they will be made national that
pains TO interest legislators and writer's
| throughout the land
Some of the Speakers.
A partial list of those who will address
the conference is as follows:
| Col. Roosevelt. Jane Adams. Hun
House, Chicago; DR.. Felix Adler, founder
Of the Society for Ethical Culture. New
York, and chairman Of the National
Child Labor Committee: Charles p. NELL.
United States commissioner of LABOR:
owen r. Lovejoy, general secretary. Ma
tional Child Labor Committee: Senator
William f. Borah of Idaho: Mrs. Flor
ence Kelley secretary Of the National
Consumers League; Mr.. Homer Folks
president Of the National Conference OF
Charities and Correction, and DIR. A. j.
Mckelway of Washington, D. G., secre-
tary for the Southern States National
Child Labor Committee.
| Other prominent speakers who have
been invited and whose presence is also
anticipated are A. T. Stovail, commits
sioner of uniform laws of the American
Bar Association, Mississippi: Miss Kate
Barnard, state commissioner of charities
iOkiahoma Dean Herman Schneider Uni
versity Of CINCINNATI Miss Lillian ID.
Valid, founder of the Nurses Settlement,
New York city: Dean Allen G. Hall,
Vanderbilt University, and a large num-
Der OF educators. factory inspectors, tru-
ant officers and others interested in the
enactment and enforcement of child labor
laws.
| The twenty-seven state committees af-
hliated with the National Child Labor
COMMITTEE will send delegates and the
actual conditions of child labor in coal
mines, glass factories, textile mills
|sweatshops and street trades. together
with the methods for correcting abuses,
will be fully discussed