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Addams lists authors of papers to be included in a book.

Addams explains the difference between opposing child acting as an occupation and a vocation.

Harper offers Addams his opinion on a bill regulating children in the street trades.

Lovejoy writes Lindsey regarding efforts to break child labor laws in Massachusetts, Illinois, and Louisiana, and notes that Jane Addams is "spending night and day" to ensure that the law in Illinois holds fast.

Addams makes a reasoned argument against a bill in the Illinois State Senate that would make child actors exempt from the provision of the 1903 Illinois Child Labor Law.

A published version of Addams' lecture on March 11 at the National Child Labor Committee Conference in Birmingham, Alabama, in which she presents arguments against an exception to the 1903 Illinois Child Labor Law for child actors and offers some Tolstoyan allegory to buttress her arguments.

Addams' lecture on March 12 at the National Child Labor Committee Conference in Birmingham, Alabama, in which she discusses child labor legislation in Illinois.

An unknown correspondent writes Addams about the moral dangers of child labor in the theater.

Sargent explains his inability, as the head of a dramatic school, to support Addams' effort to ban child labor in theaters.

Davies sends Freund some data regarding factory inspector budgets, manpower, and numbers of inspections from 1893 to 1910.

Lovejoy asks Addams about the status of the Child Actor Bill pending in the Illinois legislature.

Lindsey apologizes to Owen for any distress following his statement at the Theatrical Benefit and discusses child labor and child actors.

Downey telegrams Addams on the impact of licensing laws on newsboys on circulation.

Davis telegrams Addams that the licensing system in place in Boston for newspaper boys does not appear to interfere with the business needs.

Lord informs Addams that he has been asked to provide citations for the accuracy of his pamphlet, Children of the Stage.

Beck writes Addams to ask for the arguments she presented before the Illinois legislature regarding a bill to exempt child actors for the 1903 Illinois Child Labor Law.

Bates praises Addams for her work to ban child actors from the theater.

Donaghey writes Bowen about the scheduling of a new hearing to consider Senate Substitute Bill 233, regarding the exemption of child actors from the 1903 Illinois Child Labor Laws.

Fowler sends Addams correspondence between Owen Lovejoy and Ben Lindsey, regarding a benefit held by the Alliance for the Protection of Stage Children.

Brown asks Addams for advice about how best to get his research on stage children to Illinois legislators.

Lord thanks Addams for her feedback on his pamphlet.

Brown offers Addams more information pertinent to the stage child investigation.

Addams asks Oglesby to allow herself or someone else to testify before the Illinois Senate in regard to legislation that would give theaters an exception to employing children after hours.

Brown informs Addams that the street trades bill she favored failed in the Illinois Senate, but the child stage bill she opposed also failed.

Chute and Brown send Addams a telegram regarding the defeat of stage bill in the Illinois Senate.

Oglesby informs Addams that allowing her request to speak at the hearings on the child actor bill was not within his power.

Denvir informs Addams that the Illinois legislative bill, which would have allowed theaters to employ children after hours, failed in large part to her efforts against it.

Lindsey congratulates Addams on the Child Welfare Exhibit and sends his hopes that he will be able to talk to her soon about his stance on the child actor law.

Lindsey writes Lathrop about a controversial child labor law, explaining his disagreement with Jane Addams over the issue.

Addams debates the issue of child labor on the stage with Norman Hapgood, Agnes Repplier, and Otis Skinner at the Contemporary Club in Philadelphia.

Addams asks for Taft's support on a bill to establish a Child Labor Bureau.

Lovejoy sends Addams data regarding child labor in theaters.

Parker reports on an interview with Morrison regarding Addams' opposition to a child actor exception to the 1903 Illinois Child Labor Law.

Addams thanks Mackay for her previous letter and reports that she has forwarded it on to the Secretary of the Illinois Child Labor Committee.

Lose writes Addams with ideas about how the minimum wage and moral teaching can save women from a life of prostitution.

An outline listing the Committee on Industrial Relations' steps to creating a safe and healthy workplace.

Also known as Our National Politics, August 3, 1912

A description of a Catholic sweatshop in Cincinnati that supposedly drugs young women and an attack on William Howard Taft as being pro-Catholic.

Witt writes Addams about his financial troubles and his distrust of Theodore Roosevelt.

Addams explains the Progressive Party's approach to child labor and legislation.

Lyrics to "The Jane Addams Hymn," also entitled "The Song of the Child-Slaves."

Lyrics and music to "The Jane Addams Hymn," also entitled "The Song of the Child-Slaves." The song was performed by the Jane Addams Chorus.

Matheny informs Addams about the Progressive legislation agenda and suffrage in West Virginia and asks her to be a part of it all.

Davies explains his attitudes about child labor and the misunderstandings about them.

Doty sends Addams a proposed plan for the National Progressive Party Bureau of Education and asks for feedback.

Lewis writes Addams about the agenda of the upcoming meeting of the Legislative Reference Committee of the Progressive National Service.

Kellogg sends Lewis a report of American Association for Labor Legislation activities.

The Commission identifies problems regarding the labor of women and children and recommends solutions.

Woods would like to know Addams' conclusion regarding whether or not to allow children to appear on the theatrical stage.

Addams informs Woods that she has forwarded his question in regards to children in the theater to Mr. Lovejoy. She also implies that though children should not perform if exploited by managers for profit, it is allowable if it is done with education in mind.

Addams speaks on women's suffrage in Birmingham and declares that women's voting power would be used to combat child labor.

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