INDEX
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Addams, Jane, VIII, 40.
Adulteration of foods, 210-211, 222, 225, 230, 325 (Appendix V).
Alabama, child labor in, 35;
new statute in, 37;
nightwork in, 78;
illiterate children in, 86, 89;
age limit in, 91;
no factory inspectors in, 159.
Arkansas, 89.
Atkins vs. the State, 128.
Attendance agents, women as, 177.
Australian Federation, 198.
Boston, 8, 12, 14, 185-186.
Buffalo, 12, 14.
Bureau of Charities, Chicago, 40.
Bureau of Labor (U. S.), 99, 105.
California, 215, 81-89.
Cambridge, Mass., 23.
Canton Cotton Mill vs. Edwards, 256.
Census (U. S.), 70, 73, 81, 100, 197.
Chicago, V, VI, 21, 32, 39-40, 50, 58, 60, 72, 106, 142-144, 179-180, 184, 215, 217, 219, 254.
Children’s Protective Alliance in New Jersey, 54.
Christmas cruelties, 20, 30-33.
Colorado, 106, 134, 148, 152, 161-162, 169, 190-191, 193-194, 198-199.
Commission for Children (U. S.), 99-104.
Committee on Relations of Employer and Employee, 79-80.
Compulsory Education, in Alton, Ill., 51;
in Chicago, 58, 60, 184;
in New York and Pennsylvania, 73;
in Massachusetts, 86;
states having none, 89-90;
relation to child labor law, 96, 238.
Congestion of population, 109.
Constitution of the United States, 143, 146, 147-148, 152-153, 158, 163, 280 (Appendix III).
Consumers’ League seeks leisure for clerks, 106;
advocates early closing, 115;
inspector for, 120;
improvement achieved by, 126;
intervention by, 136, 202, 221, 243.
Delaware, child labor law, 80;
nightwork, 91;
nine hours day, 134.
Denver, women vote for all officials, 186-187, 190;
county judge of, 192;
voting mothers of, 193-194.
Department of Agriculture (U. S.), 99, 103.
Department of Education, 99.
Dependent families, 41, 49-50, 52, 249;
girl, 75, 110;
fathers, 13;
orphans, 76;
widows, 63, 66.
Disabled fathers, 13, 35, 39;
parent, 35, 39, 246;
relative, 35-39.
Divorce Reform League, 206.
Eliot, President Charles W., of Harvard University, 23.
Employers’ Liability, 102, 256 (Appendix I).
Factory acts, 89.
Factory inspector, VII, 6;
none in several states, 36-38, 40;
varying efficiency of, 56, 60, 64, 89, 97, 139;
women as, 177, 219, 225-226, 237, 239, 244, 246.
Florida, 88.
French Canadian children, 85.
General Federation of Women’s Clubs, 106.
Georgia, no child labor law, 33-34, 38;
Northern corporations in, 61;
eleven hours day, 63;
children in manufacture, 70;
rank in scale of states, 86;
illiteracy in, 82-89; age limit, 91;
competition with New England, 107, 134-135, 166;
women excluded from public life, 193;
supreme court decision in child labor case, 256.
Grover Cleveland, 106.
Hamilton Manufacturing Co. (120 Mass., 283), 154, 136.
Helena, Montana, 219-220.
Holden vs. Hardy, 128, 137, 145, 158, 160-161, 164, 233, 254, 280 (Appendix III).
Hull-House, VII, VIII, 40.
Idaho, women vote in, 198.
Illinois, VII;
child labor law of 1903, 30;
end of working day, 32;
age limit, 33;
children in mines, 38;
laws of 1891, 1893, 1897 and 1903, 39;
scholarships, 41;
Alton, 43;
children imported for work, 47;
ideals of immigrants, 58-61;
nightwork
prohibited, 63;
enforcement of child labor laws, 77;
eight hours day, 80;
position in scale of states, 85-88;
Supreme Court, 128;
working week 48 hours, 134;
decision in case Ritchie vs. the People, 139, 147, 142-144;
strikes in, 145, 158-160, 155-156, 158-159, 160-162;
girl in trade union, 181, 200, 219;
Ritchie vs. the People, 259.
Illiterate children, 4, 11, 36, 47, 54, 59;
in Pennsylvania, 73;
imported by relatives, 75;
in Chicago, 77;
in census of 1900, 81-89, 100.
Immigrants, 6, 11;
false ideals of parents, 58, 61;
Welsh miner’s experience, 69;
Russian girl in sweatshop, 75;
import illiterate children, 75;
women as inspectors of, 177;
in colonies, 183;
as purchasers, 214-215.
In re Jacobs, 230-231, 233, 238, 240-241, 244, 246-247, 253-255, 306 (Appendix IV).
Indiana, 85.
Infant mortality, 4, 100-101.
Institutions for children, 7;
records of, 17;
erroneously called private, 64;
dependents and delinquents together, 102;
competition with manufacturers in sewing trades, 124;
the sweating-system in, 130;
so-called reformatory, 205.
Inter-State Commerce Commission, 67.
Iowa, 93.
Italian, child immigrants, 11;
importation of children, 76;
in Massachusetts, 86;
girl in Chicago school, 180;
as purchasers, 214;
olive oil, 214, 216;
sewing in tenement, 237.
Juvenile court, observations regarding messenger service, 17;
insufficient number of, 102, 189.
Kansas, 39, 40, 41.
Kentucky, 37.
Label of trade union, cigarmakers, 126;
of cracker-bakers, 182;
tailors, 220, 240-243.
Licenses for tenement work, 8, 237-238.
Lochner vs. New York, 128, 159, 233, 254-255.
Louisiana, child labor in, 36;
age limit, 36;
rank in scale of states, 89, 91;
child labor bill introduced, 93.
London School Board, 176, 185, 188.
Maine, 91, 103.
Maryland, 88.
Massachusetts, ethical standards, 8, 61, 67;
rank in scale of states, 70;
child labor law age limit, 78;
hours of labor, 80;
illiterate children, 82-89;
needle trades in, 119;
competition with Georgia, 135;
powers of legislature, 136, 149;
protection of women engaged in commerce, 137;
strikes in, 145;
constitution of, 149-150, 155, 164;
educational qualification for voting, 173.
Mercantile inspection, 27, 169, 201-202.
Michigan, 68, 82-85.
Mississippi, 89, 134.
Missouri, 36, 39, 161.
Montana, 134.
Municipal milk supply, 224.
National Child Labor Committee, 106.
National Congress of Mothers, 106.
National Consumers’ League, recognition of clerks’ right to leisure, 106;
advocates Saturday half-holiday, 115;
inspector for, 120;
achievement of, 126;
demands leisure for young workers, 136;
changing industrial conditions affecting working women and children, 202;
endeavor to form body of organized purchasers, 221;
label on women’s and children’s white muslin underwear, 243.
National Educational Association, 106.
Nebraska, 85, 91, 148, 152, 160.
Needle-trades, 8, 130, 240, 217-218, 231, 237.
Nevada, 81.
New Hampshire, 91, 82-84.
New Jersey, 37;
glass-bottle industry in, 52;
nightwork in, 53;
imported boys for glass works, 54;
thrift urged for children, 63;
children in manufacture, 70;
illiterate children, 82-88;
rank in scale of states, 82;
hours of labor, 134;
repeal of Fifty-Five Hours law, 154, 170.
New York, VII;
infant mortality in, 4;
begging infants in, 5;
kindergarten children working in tenements, 6;
subsidized institutions, 7;
child labor law of 1903, 11;
Child Labor Committee, 12;
penal code affecting telegraph boys, 18;
corporations having branches in the South, 61;
needle-trades subsidized, 64;
comparison with children in manufacture in Pennsylvania, 70-73;
illiterate children in, 82-88;
sweating system, 111;
Court of Appeals decision People vs. Orange Co. Road Construction Co., 128;
hours of labor of children, 143, 137-138, 144, 160, 169;
insufficient schools, 187-188;
Foundling Asylum, 194;
clerks insufficiently protected, 200-202;
consumptive tenement-workers, 213, 215, 231, 233, 237, 244-245, 253;
in re Jacobs, 306 (Appendix IV).
New Zealand, 196-198.
Night inspections, 44, 96.
Night work, of newsboys, 15;
of telegraph and messenger boys, 20;
of children in retail trade, 30-33;
in manufacture, 34-36 and 45 et seq.;
in glass works, 53 et seq., 71, 73;
in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island, 78;
in Illinois, 139, 143-144;
in Alabama, 169;
in New Jersey, 170.
North Carolina, child labor law of 1903, 35-37;
children in coal mines, 39;
in manufacture, 70;
rank in the scale of states, 82-89;
illiterate children, 82-89;
age limit, 91;
age of consent, 194.
North Dakota, 91.
Nurses’ Settlement, VII.
Ohio, 25, 85, 82-89.
Oregon, 85.
Orphans in the glass industry, 43;
maintenance of, 66;
a social and industrial phenomenon, 67;
imported to work, 76;
need of a Commission for Children, 100-102.
Parasite trades, 64-65.
Pauper, 49, 50, 52, 217, 253.
Pennsylvania, 56, 63;
children in manufacture, 70-78;
illiterate children, 80-89;
miners in, 159.
Pensions, 48, 101.
People vs. the Orange Co. Road Construction Co., 128.
Police matrons, women as, 177.
Probation officers, women as, 177.
Portuguese children, 86.
Poverty, 42, 50 et seq., 54, 58, 98, 220, 253.
Public Education Association of New York City, 173.
Pure Food bill, 325 (Appendix V.).
Registration of births, 100.
Retail Dealers’ Association of New York City, 169, 201.
Ritchie vs. the People, 128, 143, 145, 147, 155, 254-255, 259 (Appendix II.).
Rhode Island, 70, 78, 91.
Rochester, N. Y., municipal milk supply, 224.
Russian children, 11, 74, 76, 86.
Sanitary inspectors, women as, 177.
Scholarships for working children, 40-42, 50, 52.
School nurses, 177, 188.
South Australia, women vote in, 198.
South Carolina, 70, 87, 89;
age of consent in, 194, 216.
Speed, 43, 121-124, 159.
Strikes, 144, 168, 171, 182.
Sweating system, 159, 166, 210, 212, 218, 229, 231, 235, 240, 242, 250-251.
Syrian children, 186.
Texas, 36-37.
Thrift, 60, 63.
Trade agreements, 114, 127, 132, 134, 163, 165-167.
Trade unions, 53, 55, 90, 117, 126, 133, 165-167, 181, 198, 201, 216, 220-221, 238, 240, 242-245.
Traveling libraries in Wyoming, 197.
United States, 8, 33, 46, 60, 68, 186, 215, 253.
United States Census, 70, 81-85, 197.
United States Congress, 132, 206, 325 (Appendix V).
United States Commission for Children, 99-103.
United States Fish Commission, 101-102, 129-130.
United States Supreme Court, 106, 127-128, 132, 137, 141, 145, 148, 150-152, 155-157, 159-164, 167, 233-234, 254, 280 (Appendix III).
Utah, 85, 146, 149-152, 154, 157, 161, 164, 198.
Vermont, 134.
Virginia, 35, 37, 82-85, 89, 91.
Washington, 85, 160-161.
West Virginia, 36, 88, 91.
Widows, 13, 35, 63, 66, 243, 248.
Wisconsin, 27, 70.
Women, as attendance agents, probation officers, police matrons, 176;
as inspectors of immigrants, 177;
as sanitary inspectors, tenement inspectors, 177;
as army nurses and school nurses, 177.
Women’s Trade Union League, 198.
Wyoming, 196-198.