Michigan State Federation of Women's Clubs

“ These little white slaves of the 20th century are mostly American children. In this free land they are toiling under the glorious flag of liberty to satisfy the greed of commercialism.
Your committee, therefore, recommends the study of Child Labor, as a means to an end, in the abolishment of this national evil; that standing committee be appointed; that one or more programs on the study of Child Labor be presented, and that local conditions be investigated and reported to the Chairman of this committee. ”

“ The children are huried from the cradle into the factories, with no childhood, no sweet memories of playtime or of home, nothing for them but soil from morning until night, and only fifteen minutes in which to eat a cold lunch; their frail bodies are often twisted and misshapen, the intellect obscured, the will paralyzed. ”

“ The industrial situation before us today demanding the most earnest attention of club women is that of Child Labor. There is a pronounced increase of Child Labor, not alone in the cotton industries of the South, but in the textile mills of the northern and middle states ”