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Women and
Children
FIRST
1
E
ASY WORK and good pay brought
grinned and marked each unsuspecting
about 300 young women to a large
girl for the grave.
The
radium factory. Their job was to
Not until six years after the girls be-
rule of the life boat is "WOMEN AND
paint the figures on the dial of the
gan work did anybody suspect that any-
CHILDREN FIRST." In many industries they are
watches and clocks which glow in the
thing was wrong-not until the sixth
first:
darkness.
victim died did the authorities awaken
FIRST TO BREAK DOWN,
Nobody knew that the hand of death
to the true facts.
FIRST TO GO UNDER,
punched the timeclock for these girls. In
These facts were brought into the
FIRST TO SUFFER ACCIDENT.
pleasant surroundings, sitting in com-
open by the Consumers' League of New
fortable chairs, they laughed and chat-
Jersey, a non-profit organization of citi-
tered as they dipped their brushes in the
zens for the betterment of working con-
compound. But, death sat by unseen and
ditions throughout the State.
Through the efforts of the League,
page news for a time. In spite of many
scientists became interested. It was dis-
difficulties the League succeeded in mak-
ing a thorough investigation which at-
X-RAY PHOTOGRAPH
covered that every girl at this work was
of the unfortunate Miss
breathing in poison laden dust and in-
tracted the attention of the U. S. De-
C., showing how the
partment of Labor. They requested the
insidious poison now
oculating herself with a substance which
known as Radium
piling up in the tissues bombarded the
complete data for the files of the Bureau
Mesothorium Necrosis
ate away the girl's
bones and organs until frightful illness
of Statistics. That such a thing may
lower jaw to a mere
and death followed. This horror need
never happen again, the League is work-
stump. This photo-
graph was taken three
never have happened for there does exist
ing to secure laboratory investigation of
weeks before her un-
a luminous paint which is harmless.
new chemicals and their effects uponwork-
timely death.
This story is history now. It was front
ers as a prerequisite to their industrial use.
10.
Y
OU probably remember that a bill
industry in order to afford them the
adding Radium Mesothorium Ne-
standards of the most progressive states.
crosis to the list of compensable
Children must be safeguarded by law
diseases under Workmen's Compensa-
from industrial accidents and all the
RADIOGRAPH of a
tion was introduced in the 1926 Legis-
benefits of law must be extended to the
normal fore finger
and of the fore
lature by the Consumers' League and
children who work in Agriculture.
finger of a radium
that it became a law on the 15th of
worker, showing
Occupational disease must be detected,
how radium has
March.
investigated and compensated. Social
eaten the bone
away.
There is much more to be done for
justice is the best safeguard against social
the protection of women and children in
disorder.
DIOCESE OF NEWARK
NONE OF US WISH TO SHUT OUR EYES TO FACTS.
TWENTY-ONE WASHINGTON STREET
NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.
And it is a fact that in many occupations where women and children are
employed today, the conditions of labor are laying on these mothers and little
MRS. G. W. B. CUSHING,
January 18, 1927.
ones, BURDENS TOO GRIEVOUS TO BE BORNE.
President Consumers' League,
Burdens of weariness from too long hours, accidents, under-nourishment
and premature death.
East Orange, N. J.
YOUR CHECK SENT NOW WILL HELP US TO continue our efforts to
My dear Mrs. Cushing:
improve working conditions for women and children.
Will you not join, or if now a member, if possible increase your member-
I have had the impression which I have seen по reason to change, that
ship?
the Consumers' League for the improvement of the working conditions for
Dues per year.
women and children in industry, has rendered very real service in the
ACTIVE
$ 2
SUSTAINING
10
State. I appreciate especially what it has stood for as regards child labor-
ASSOCIATE
5
CONTRIBUTING
25
a good cause which suffers much from selfish greed but which must never be
counted as a lost cause.
Make checks payable to CONSUMERS' LEAGUE OF NEW JERSEY
Respectfully yours,
and send to
EDWIN S. LINES.
MR. EDWARD B. JACOBSON, Treasurer, 56 NEW ST., NEWARK, N. J.
DIOCESE OF NEW JERSEY,
TRENTON, N. J.
LLEWELLYN PARK, W. O., I
January 14th, 1927.
January 11,
1
MRS. G. W. B. CUSHING,
56 Munn Avenue, South,
East Orange, N.J.
To MRS. G. W. B. CUSHING:
President Consumers' League of N. J.
My dear Mrs. Cushing:
"It (the Consumers' League) strives sanely and consistently
For twenty-five years I have followed the activities of the Consumers
to better conditions for our working women and girls."
in its efforts to improve the condition of children and women in industry
The above is my feeling tersely expressed of appreciation of what you
my judgment, it would be hard to find in the State of New Jersey a more
and your League have striven for for so many years. I consider it a great
sane, constructive and effective piece of work.
honor to be asked to endorse your noble work.
There are three foundations of society-Religion (not sectarian), He
Ever your sincere friend,
Education. To the second of these, the Consumers' League directs its
SAMUEL G. WELLES.
thereby building and supporting the structure of the state.
EVERETT COI
10
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1
BOARD MEMBERS
OFFICERS OF THE LEAGUE
MISS CORNELIA BRADFORD, Montclair.
MRS. LANDRETH KING, Orange
President, MRS. G. W. B. CUSHING, East Orange.
MRS. BENJAMIN NICOLL, Morristown.
MRS. WM. HARVEY COOKE, Or
MRS. WELLS P. EAGLETON, Newark.
MISS TREBY MOORE, W. Oran
Vice-Presidents, MISS CAROLINE LAMONTE, Bound Brook; MRS. F.
MISS JOSEPHINE MILLER, Newark.
MISS AUGUSTA TAPPAN, Boun
DEL. HYDE, Plainfield, and MRS. HARRIMAN SIMMONS, Elizabeth.
MISS MELINDA SCOTT, Newark.
MRS. BLANTON C. WELSH, Mo
Treasurer, MR. EDWARD B. JACOBSON, Newark.
MISS FLORENCE HALSEY, Newark.
MRS. OTTo WITTPENN, Jersey
MRS. NATHAN KUSSY, Newark.
MISS J. ISABEL SIMS, Newark.
Recording Secretary, MISS ALICE LESLIE HILL, Morristown.
MRS. ROBERT WOOLLEY, Montclair.
MISS MARGARET BUTTENHEIM,
Honorary Vice-Presidents, RIGHT REVEREND BISHOP LINES, Newark;
MRS. A. B. JONES, Plainfield.
MRS. THEODORE ANDREWS, Do
REV. JOHN MOMENT, Plainfield; MISS CORNELIA BRADFORD,
Montclair; MR. RALPH Lum, Newark, and DEAN MABEL
DOUGLAS, New Brunswick.
Executive Secretary, MISS KATHERINE G. T. Wiley, Newark.
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