National Consumers' League Records

Description

Organization founded in 1899 to monitor the conditions under which goods were manufactured and distributed.
Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, speeches, project and program files, legal files, scrapbooks, printed material, and other records relating to the league's efforts toward reform in public health, consumer protection, public welfare, and fair labor standards.

Rights

Cleared

Alternative Title

National Consumers' League Records

Documents in this collection

Lovejoy asks Addams to reconsider resigning from the National Child Labor Committee.

Kelley tells Addams how she responded to Alonzo See's attack on child labor legislation and worries over Addams's health.

See sends Addams a statement on his opposition to child labor laws.

See argues for the abolition of child labor law and maligns social workers and woman suffrage .