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Addams writes Blaine about the work of a committee and asks for reaction to Democracy and Social Ethics.

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Addams and De Bey urge Chicago clubwomen to visit factories to see the working conditions for children and discuss a measure that will make it more difficult to keep children out of school.

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

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Lawson notes that he has heard that Addams seeks a change in the newsboy ordinance and wants to discuss it with J. C. Schaffer.

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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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Addams opposes citizens carrying concealed weapons.

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Addams testifies that the system of child labor destroys genius, and how work on the stage damages children.

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A summary of decisions on the law of contempt regarding peaceful picketing and strikes.

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Dupuy encloses a clipping regarding recent court decisions on strikes that he thinks will interest Addams.

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Addams discusses the experiences of Chicago probation officers and the profession of civil service.

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The text of a bill authorizing the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to investigate and report upon the industrial, social, moral, educational, and physical conditions of women and child workers in the United States.

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Reynolds asks for help in passing an amendment.

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Addams proposes a substitution to a similar bill to the House of Representatives.

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Cannon answers Addams' request to amend a bill.

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Addams receives a reply from the Committee on Appropriations in the House of Representatives on her recommendations for a bill.

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Roosevelt informs Allison of the passage of a law to investigate and report on the conditions of working women and children in America.

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Gruhl requests information from the museum about the state treasurer and state funds.

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Ely expresses enthusiasm for Addams' proposal to start a local chapter of the American Association for Labor Legislation and suggests people who can help.

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Addams discusses traditional women's roles and how they correspond to a greater need for the involvement of woman in politics.

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An excerpt from Addams' March 22 speech at Faneuil Hall to the Boston Equal Suffrage Association and the Women's Trade Union League on the changes in women's work brought about by factory work.

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Fisher writes about the upcoming conference of State and Territorial Boards of Public Health to discuss pending Senate and House bills affecting public health.

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Osgood reports to Addams on the progress of meeting plans for the American Association for Labor Legislation.

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Someone writing on behalf of Addams informs Osgood that the Chicago branch of the American Association for Labor Legislation will meet in November.

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Osgood writes Addams to schedule a meeting of the American Association for Labor Legislation after the election.

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Osgood writes Addams about a legislative opportunity in Illinois for the Chicago branch of the American Association for Labor Legislation.

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Invitation to a meeting of the American Association of Labor Legislation on October 7, 1908.

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Osgood invites Addams to speak at the Chicago meeting of the American Association of Labor Legislation and asks for a meeting beforehand.

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Addams invites Thomas to speak about suffrage as part of a second push to secure municipal voting rights for women in Chicago.

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Addams discusses a previous study on newsboys and argues that there are no child labor laws that protect them. These comments were made at the National Child Labor Committee annual meeting in January 1909.

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Addams argues for the establishment of a federal bureau for the protection of children, especially regarding the issues of child labor and education. This is a published version of Addams's speech to the National Child Labor Committee meeting in January 1909.

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Osgood writes Addams about arrangements for the meeting of the American Association for Labor Legislation.

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Addams and Van der Vaart ask Blaine to be a part of the Illinois Child Labor Committee and attend at least one meeting.

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

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Osgood writes Addams about the status of Grace Darling's membership and reports on the effectiveness of the Illinois letter.

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The American Association for Labor Legislation prepared this form letter to gather support in Illinois for limiting work for women to 60 hours per week.

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Addams urges Senator Dolliver to support a bill in Congress to create the Federal Children’s Bureau.

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Addams seeks Senator Sutherland's support for the establishment of a Federal Children's Bureau, arguing that it would allow the gathering of information currently not possible.

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Wigmore congratulates Addams on her role in making an important U.S. Supreme Court decision possible and apologizes for failing as yet to visit her at Hull-House.

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Addams congratulates Holt on the passage of the Bennett bill and expresses her wish to see him next time he is in Chicago.

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Andrews, for the American Association for Labor Legislation, sends the organization's legislative program to Addams.

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Reisner asks Richards' opinion on the Dolliver-Davis Bill, which seeks to provide for agricultural and industrial training schools.

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Speranza's assignments of Committee on Crime and Immigration members into subcommittees.

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Addams and Abbott write Underwood to oppose a Congressional bill to require literacy tests for immigrants.

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

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Addams writes Haldeman about a hearing on the Child Labor Law in Illinois and discusses her upcoming travel plans.

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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.

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Addams led a contingent to oppose efforts to exclude child actors from child labor laws. She testified before the State Senate committee considering the bill, along with Will J. Davis (speaking for the bill), Mrs. Coonley-Ward, Mrs. A. T. Aldrich, Margaret Halsey, and Anna Nichols.

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

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