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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 23, 1913

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 4.

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Unsavory Factory Conditions

Much comment has been made of late on the investigations of Miss Mary Louisa Chamberlain, a graduate of Vassar College. Determining to learn something of the conditions prevailing in the canneries of New York State, she entered the employ of these factories, working for eight or ten cents an hour. Through this intimate association she was enabled to observe conditions which she has sedulously given to the public. She tells of children eight or ten years old working from 4:30 A. M. to 10 P. M., with only brief intermissions for meals. It is to be hoped that her intimate study of child labor, with what she has brought to light regarding the same, will prove of great assistance in bringing about legislation enforcing changed conditions in these factories.