Description
The clippings in this series are from news and trade publications, and deal with activities of the Factory Investigating Commission. They concern: scheduled hearings; hearings held in Schenectady, Troy, Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo; witnesses testifying at the hearings; descriptions of the commission's investigation of factory and store health and safety conditions, wages, and cost of living; and descriptions of actual conditions in factories and stores relating to dangerous working conditions, poor wages, and child labor.