The entire policy has changed of late, and under the capable direction of Miss Annie Marian MacLean, of Brooklyn, New York, the industrial department of the Association is doing scientific investigation of labor conditions of women.
In a cracker factory I once saw a paid worker in the Young Women's Christian Association pause above a young girl lying on the floor, crimson with fever, and apparently in the throes of a serious illness.
With angelic pity on her face the Association worker stooped and slipped a tract into the sick girl's hand.

The kind of industrial secretary the Association now employs would send for an ambulance and see that the girl had the best of hospital care.

She would inquire whether the girl's illness was caused by the conditions under which she worked, and she would know if it were possible to have those conditions changed.
WOMEN'S CLUBS STUDYING LABOR PROBLEMS Nearly every state federation of women's clubs has its industrial committee, and many large clubs have a corresponding department.

It is these industrial sections of the women's clubs which are such a thorn in the flesh of Mr.John Kirby, Jr., the new president of the National Manufacturers' Association.

In his inaugural address Mr.Kirby warned his colleagues that women's clubs were not the ladylike, innocuous institutions that too-confiding man supposed them to be.