A little more than a year ago they succeeded.

After the bill placing all retail stores under factory inspection was passed, a committee from the Merchants' Association went before Governor Hughes and appealed to him to veto what they declared was a vicious and wholly superfluous measure.

Governor Hughes, however, signed the bill.
In the first three months of its enforcement over twelve hundred infractions of the Mercantile Law were reported in Greater New York.

No less than nine hundred and twenty-three under-age children were taken out of their places as cash girls, stock girls, and wrappers, and were sent back to their homes or to school.

The contention of the Con sumers' League that retail stores needed regulation seems to have been justified.
To the business man capital and labor are both abstractions.