Child Labor Committee records, 1908-1923.

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Child Labor Committee records, 1908-1923.

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Constitution, membership lists, minutes of meetings, and financial reports. Included are the results of a census of the Minneapolis schools conducted by the group in 1911 to determine how many children were working. The committee's purpose was to foster public sentiment against child labor and to cooperate with the National Child Labor Committee in securing the enactment and enforcement of laws to regulate the education and employment of minors.

0.25 cu. ft. (1 box, incl. 2 v.).

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Minnesota Child Labor Committee.

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National Child Labor Committee (U.S.)

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Founded in 1904 under the leadership of Edgar G. Murphy, Felix Adler, Samuel McCune Lindsay, Owen Lovejoy, and A.J. McKelway. Its aims were legislation, investigation, and publicity to promote the interests of children. From the description of Records, 1914-1943. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122421727 The National Child Labor Committee was formed after a conference held in New York between Edgar Gardner Murphy's Alabama Child Labor Commi...