They wanted to learn, at first hand, the facts concerning conditions of industry.

Most of them are stockholders in mills, factories, mines, or business establishments.

Many own real estate on which factories stand.
"It is not fair," they have openly declared, "that we should enjoy wealth and luxury at the cost of illness, suffering, and death.

We do not want wealth on such terms." The Colony Club members, and the women who form the Auxiliary to the National Civic Federation, have for their object improvement in the working and living conditions of wage earners in industries and in governmental institutions.

A few conscientious employers have spent a part of their profits to make their employees comfortable.