Letter to Taylor

              New York, February  11, 1907

Mr. Fred W. Taylor
Chestnut Hill
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Sir:-

The Executive Committee of the Society at its meeting on February 9, passed a resolution instructing the Secretary to communicate at once with the members of the Board of Managers urging them to write or telegraph immediately to the Hon. James A. Tawney, Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., recommending an adequate appropriation for the bill to provide for the investigation of the Women and Child Workers of the United States that has just passed both houses of Congress and been signed by the President. The bill is number 17562 in the House, and number 5469 in the Senate.

The whole question of women and child labor, closely associated as it is with the increasing immigration of unskilled foreign workers, who contribute most largely to this class of labor, is one that is of great interest to every member of our Society. It is impossible however to approach this question with intelligence, or to treat wisely the many problems involved unless we have at our disposal a large amount of carefully