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118 EAST 54th STREET
NEW YORK
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On Tuesday had a most interesting hearing on the cannery situation. There were about twenty-five representative canners present, and I think they learnt a great deal, for I think that a great many of them were entirely unfamiliar with the conditions prevailing throughout the canning industry, and I think that they felt quite outraged at the conditions which were stated, and of which they did not know.  We had a most interesting witness in Miss Chamberlain, a very attractive and charming young woman who had worked for us in some of the canneries, and had written a diary from day to day. She read parts of this diary and made a very deep impression. Her description of children, covered up with shawls, sitting, with eyes almost dropping out of their heads for want of sleep, stringing beans was a very vivid picture. She told about their sore fingers, often wrapped in rags, their poor little tired bodies propped up, and the cruelty of some of the foreign parents. All this demonstrates quite clearly how necessary it is to keep the children out of the canning sheds. On the whole it was a very advantageous hearing for our side, and I think, we will get something done. I could write a whole discourse on this story to you, but, I think, quite enough has been said.

Frances and Mrs. Long have gone to Camden, Mrs. Long to get her house in order for people who have rented it, and Frances to rest up. She has become entirely too popular. She has gotten many demands from many States to help them organize emigration bureaus. California, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts

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