Mrs. Kelley's Lecture on Child Labor

Mrs. Florence Kelley, secretary of the National Consumers' League, gave a talk in Phillips Brooks House yesterday afternoon on some phases of the child labor question.

Mrs. Kelley emphasized the fact that people should be particular as far as possible to investigate the conditions under which the goods that they purchase are made. She showed the difficulty the Consumers' League had experienced in attempting to pass a bill through the federal legislature, that was finally declared unconstitutional, which should prevent goods made under child labor in one state from passing into another. Owing to the great demand for white factory hands in the South and to a lack of inspectors, conditions are such that large numbers of very young children are found employed in factories. It is the purpose of the Consumers' League to lessen these evils as far as possible.