New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-05
Manufacturers Telegram
Questions Child Labor
Committees Sincerity.
NO FINANCIAL AID
FOR MILL WORKERS
Owen r. Lovejoy Replies and
Bars Resolution Scoring the
Textile Association.
by LILLIAN ID. VALID.
Iny TcIograph to mo Tribune ]


Ashville, y. G.. Feb. 1.-The South
ern cotton manufacturer. the ghost
that walks at all child labor meetings,
made himself known ut the outset Of
this mornings session of the Conference
on Child Labor to-day as an actually
instead Of mere wrath. Last night
Mrs. Murdoch, of Alabama. reminded
ia Of his presence by her statement
that although survey of her state
showed there were more children en-
ployed in other industries in Alabama
than i'm all the cotton mills of the state,
the cotton manufacturers were the only
ones who appeared before the Legisla-
ture against the proposed child labor
law last year And this morning
Lewis W. fine. staff photographer Of
the National Child Labor Committee,
further reminded as Of the cotton
mems interest in child labor by his
Photographic defence OF the commit
tees statements az TO the employment
of little children in Carolina mills.
Hardly had Wiley II. Swift, the com
mittcc's secretary for the Carolinas,
finished his corroboration Of Mr.. Hines
statement that there are children Of
ten, eleven, or even younger now
working IN North Carolina mills than
the cotton manufacturer himself spoke.
Owen X. LoVcjOy, or the Child Labor
Committee. read 10 q startled, keenly
interested audience this telegram to
the committee from the Southern Tex
tile Association. by 4. Is. Carter, secrc-
tary:
III conditions are a. bad In South
ern cotton mills as have been painted
by you something should be done for
the relief of the children. VIII you
kindly explain 20 the conference what
funds have ever been expended by the
National Child Labor Committee 10 re-
lCve suffering or educate children
whose parents are unable 20 send them
to school, Please also explain 20 the
conference why the Heating bill was so
drawn by you as not 10 affect tene-
ment house work In New York, where
you well know that children of five or
six years OF age work for twelve 10
fifteen hours per day under the most
urfavorable conditions.
~ YOU are sincere in your desire 20
help humanity, why have you not gwen
financial aid to mill children Of the
South and why are you wiling tor
children 10 continue 10 work IN the
tenement houses within few blocks
OF your New York Office? p"
By way of answer Mr.. Lovejoy said
that the National Child Labor Commit
tee had not sufficient funds 70 aid the
children who need an education, but
that il encouraged local aid by means
4 L. D. r.a Hah Il. "a .
used IN New York. mothers pensions
and other community aids 20 poverty.
This committee collects and spends
about SG5. 600 a year." said Mr. Love
joy. "and the public school systems Of
The United States spend about $780,
100000. believe that the responsl-
bilitv for the education Of the chill
dren lies not with the sos, 600 crowd,
but with the S5O0.O00,O0 crowd. And
! do not believe that any community
is justified in forcing little children
to bear on their own shoulders the
burden Of their poverty
In regard 10 the Heating bill Nh
Lovejoy said:
The reason we are talking about
Carolina mills down here Is not be
cause We have come down from New
York 10 scold North Carolina, but be-
cause wherever we go we make u
noint 10 emphasize local conditions.
Were this meeting 10 New YORK to-day
the pictures Nj Hine showed you
would not have been Carolina mills
but Of our own wretched New YORK
tenements.
and let me say that We are not 80
Mind 10 our needs In New YORK "a 10
draft a Federal child labor bill that
will not affect New York tenement