Consumers League of Ohio Records, Series III 1925-1994 1966-1994

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Consumers League of Ohio Records, Series III 1925-1994 1966-1994

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The Consumers League of Ohio was founded in 1900 as part of a social justice movement of the late nineteenth century which resulted in the formation of many consumer leagues. The Consumer's League of Ohio, founded only one year after the National Consumers League, began in April 1900. Bell Sherwin (daughter of one of the men who founded the Sherwin-Williams company) helped set the Ohio league in motion and served as the first president of the organization. The Consumers League of Ohio was initially run out of the Goodrich House and dedicated its efforts to the improvement of working conditions for women and children employed in factories and retail establishments. The collection consists of agendas, agreements, brochures, by-laws, charts, constitutions, correspondence, court documents, financial information, flyers, forms, journal articles, legislation, lists, magazine articles, memoranda, minutes, newsletters, newspaper articles, newspaper clippings, notes, press releases, programs, questionnaires, reports, resolutions, speeches, statements, and testimony.

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Consumers' League of Ohio

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The Consumers League of Ohio was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1900 by a small group of women active in a local literary society, the Book and Thimble Club. The League affiliated with the National Consumers League which had been founded in 1899 by Florence Kelley. Its purpose was "to further the welfare of those who make or distribute the things bought" and to this end all Leagues created "white lists" of stores which consumers might patronize, secure in the knowledge that the wor...