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Show LABOR OF CHILDREN IN FASHION'S FADS NEW YORK. March 1 Representing sixty organisations- and a membership of 10,000, the National Consumers' league is holding Its fifth annual convention in this city. Delegates are present from eleven States.' . At a public session several persons Interested In-terested In charitable work spoke, among them being Homer Folks, former commissioner com-missioner of charities. He said: "If we could only look behind the price and the appearance of products to the processes pro-cesses and conditions by which they are produced we would be better consumers and better citizens. If the men could see upon their cigars the finer marks of the 7000 children employed In the manufacture of the tobaccos, It the women who experience exper-ience such delight In purchasing fabrics of silk and cotton would see upon these articles the tears of 46,000 children employed em-ployed In their production the Consumers' league could discontinue its labors." |