Consumers League of Ohio Photographs 1930-1970

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Consumers League of Ohio Photographs 1930-1970

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The Consumers League of Ohio is a political action organization concerned with the welfare of the laboring class. It lobbies for legislation in their interests. It was founded in 1900 in Cleveland, Ohio, as a women's group to insure female laborers decent wages, hours and working conditions. Men were admitted in 1921. the collection consists of photographs relating to personnel and investigative activities of the Consumers League of Ohio. Included are photographs of child workers, displays, the Governor's Committee on Migrant Labor, and portraits.

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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...