NATIONAL FEDERATION OF SETTLEMENTS
20 Union Park, Boston , Mass.
March 20, 1922.
Dear Miss Addams:
The joint resolution introduced by Senator Lodge in favor of delaying for twenty-five years the payment of the $24,000,000 advanced to Austria has been passed by the Senate by unanimous consent. I think it would be useful if telegrams could be sent to representatives urging speedy passage of the measure. Do you feel like suggesting that the Chicago Settlements through their Federation act on the state representatives?
Miss Moore of the Russell Sage Foundation has questioned a statement which I think came from Hull House to the effect that it was not until 1913 that an act was passed either in Chicago or Illinois making it possible actually to prevent exploitation of children under sixteen years. My remembrance is that in ↑that↓ year either the previous child labor act was amended or a new administrative ruling passed which had bite to it. I think Mrs. [Van Der Vaart] told me you had personally offered to secure some kind of provision for families who were definitely found to be in need of the money earned by children of school age. Could you without too much trouble let me know whether this statement is substantially accurate and whether there was either an act or regulation of 1913?
An early reply will be of very great assistance.
Sincerely yours,
Albert Kennedy [signed]
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