In 1903, to protest the lax enforcement of the child labor laws in the Pennsylvania mines and silk mills, she organized a children's march from Philadelphia to the home of President Theodore Roosevelt in New York.
En 1903, para protestar pola neglixente aplicación das leis do traballo infantil nas minas e fábricas de seda de Pensilvania, organizou unha marcha de nenos dende Filadelfia até a residencia do presidente Roosevelt en Nova York.