Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-03-11
Child LABOR
A MATTER FOR
CONSIDERATION
AT JACKSONVILLE MEETING
Of National Child Labor Com
mission

JdckSOnF1lte, Fla, Mafcn 1U.-OVef
200 delegates representing every COM
monwealth of the nation will arrive in
this city this week to attend the con-
ference of the National Child Labor
commission which will begin Thurs
day anl last through Monday of newt
week. Sixteen or more states will be
represented with official delegations
appointed by governors.
A census just completed in prepara-
ton for the conference shows that
Florida industries employ few child
ren, total of only about 269 between
the ages of 10 and 10 being employed
in the cigar factories of the state The
conference, it is thought, will result
in the passage of Legislation by the
Florida legislature when it meets in
April, regulating in a stringent man
ner the employment of children in
manufactures of the state.
Owen r. Lovejoy, secretary of the
national child labor committee a. New
York, has been in this city for several
days arranging some of the details for
the conference.
From a statement just issued by hira
the national conference this year will
set in motion program of education
along child labor lines in all states,
which will have a far-reaching effect.
1t is proposed to show the children
who play and who will make the FIJI.
ture laws, the conditions of the child
toiler of the present.
A large store room has been equip.
ped here with charts, pictures. lam
tern slides, statistical tables and other
means of showing the condition of
child laborers, particularly the glass
industry, broom and household goods
factories, cotton mills, coal mines and
all other American industries. This
exhibit is center of attraction in the
city at present. 1t is being visited o.
scores of tourists who are passing
through Jacksonville.
Friday afternoon of the present
week score of homes in the residen-
tial districts will be the scenes Of
meetings where ten speakers, each of
national reputation, will deliver ad-
dresses.
A mass meeting will be held on SUM-
day, March 16, at which DR.. Felix Ad
leT, president of the national child
labor committee; Jeromes Jones, edi-
tor of the Journal of Labor, Atlanta !;
Mrs. Florence E. Kelly, secretary OF
the National Consumers league;
Frank Tucker, president of the Ma,
tional Conference of Charities and Cor
rection; Lillian D. Wall, of the Nursa IS
Settlement, New York, and owen Il
Lovejoy, secretary of the National
Child Labor committee, will be the
principal speakers.
Gov. Park NJ. Trammell, of Florida,
has been invited to preside at the mass
meeting, but it is thought may, be pre-
vented from doing so, owing to the
early opening of the state legislature
Child labor and charitable relief, the
duty of the state to the warking child
survey Of the child labor situation In
the South; child labor an it's relation
to prevailing wages, and the effect OF
child labor on public health will be
some of the topics of the conference
Hookworm among the children ot
the Southern cotton mills and widows
pensions are other sub-topics. The
conference is being held in Jackson,
hiIle upon the joint invitation of the
Board of Trade here, the Florida Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs, the Jack