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Addams' speech before the National Child Labor Committee in Cincinnati calls for government regulations to protect women and children.

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Addams addresses Chicago principals about enforcing the child labor law.

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Beaunisne acknowledges seeing the proposed newsboy legislation and admits that he responded quickly and requests the report and proposed ordinance again so that he can give them more careful study. He reports long experience with newsboys and claims sympathy with their condition.

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Kennedy asks Addams whether the Chicago Federation of Settlements will write to their representatives to support the Henry Cabot Lodge bill on delaying reparations asks about details of a child labor law.

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

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

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Addams describes the poverty of the Hull-House neighborhood in the early days of her work there. She discusses the lack of security and loneliness of the elderly, as well as child labor.

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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.

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

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

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

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Addams discusses the plight of child labor and immigration in a speech to the Chautauqua.

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A 28-page illustrated pamphlet outlining the work and social conditions of newsboys and newsgirls, based on a two-day intensive investigation. In it the Committee proposes revisions in child labor laws to curb the worst excesses.

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In Addams' speech before the National Conference of Charities and Correction, she forcefully argues for child labor reform as well as increased education. The speech, given on May 10 in Richmond, VA, was published in the proceedings.

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Addams' argues that child labor is the greatest social ill in remarks at the American Humane Association Convention on November 14, 1906. This version was published in December.

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Everett attacks the Child Labor Amendment as un-American, dangerous, and radical and associates the movement with Bolsheviks.

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

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Addams gave this speech at a meeting of the National Child Labor Committee, held in New York City. In it she discussed the child labor reform work done in Chicago.

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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.

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Addams discusses the damage that child labor causes children, physically and mentally, and calls for it to be halted.

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Addams discusses the work of the League for the Protection of Children, formed to advocate for the well being of children in Chicago. The comments were made during the National Education Association meeting.

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

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Brown writes Addams about the revival of the stage child bill and about plans for a new pamphlet opposing it.

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

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

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Kelley discusses a plan to keep children in school until the age of fourteen, and news of her children's summer plans.

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Kelley tells Addams not to give her name to an enemy of child labor.

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Kelley gives Addams a sense of the publicity campaign to pass the Child Labor amendment.

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

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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.

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Ickes lists out Hiram W. Johnson's legislative effort of interest to women.

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

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

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Tufts asks Addams to head a child labor committee in order to secure three measures.

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Addams and Van Der Vaart invite Blaine to attend a conference at Hull-House about child labor legislation.

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Addams and others write an appeal to be sent to prominent Chicagoans for the support of the National Child Labor Committee.

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

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Addams sends Rich information about the child labor bill to show Mrs. Goodrich.

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Addams invites Blaine to a meeting of the Illinois Child Labor Committee.

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Addams asks Blaine to support a campaign to defeat an Illinois law that would loosen restrictions on child labor.

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Addams sends Johnson her letter to Niels Juul asking for another opportunity to address the Illinois Senate regarding Senate Substitute Bill 233 and child actors.

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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.

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Addams tells Benton that she hopes that the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom will formally support the proposed Child labor Amendment.

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Addams asks Juul if she can speak against a new version of Senate Bill 233 regarding child actors.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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Addams details the evils of child labor and efforts to abolish it in Illinois.

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Benton asks Addams for the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom's opinion on the proposed Child Labor Amendment and whether their group should support it.

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