In which the minimum wages of cash-girls are two dollars per week,
    with the same conditions regarding weekly payments and fines.

    +Hours.+

A fair house is one in which the hours from eight A.M. to six P.M. (with three quarters of an hour for lunch) constitute the working-day, and a general half-holiday is given on one day of each week during at least two summer months.

    In which a vacation of not less than one week is given with pay
    during the summer season.

    In which all over-time is compensated for.

    +Physical Conditions.+

    A fair house is one in which work, lunch, and retiring rooms are
    apart from each other, and conform in all respects to the present
    sanitary laws.

    In which the present law regarding the providing of seats for
    saleswomen is observed, and the use of seats permitted.

    +Other Conditions.+

    A fair house is one in which humane and considerate behavior toward
    employees is the rule.

    In which fidelity and length of service meet with the consideration
    which is their due.

    In which no children under fourteen years of age are employed.

    +Membership.+

The condition of membership shall be the approval by signature of the object of the Consumers’ League; and all persons shall be eligible for membership excepting such as are engaged in the retail business in this city, either as employer or employee.

    The members shall not be bound never to buy at other shops.

    The names of the members of the Consumers’ League shall not be made
    public.

Later, one of the ablest workers in this field, Mrs. Florence Kelley, formulated a basis for every society of working-women, as follows: 

     I. To bring out of the chaos of competition the order of
     co-operation.

     II.  To organize all wages-earning women.

     III.  To disseminate the literature of labor and co-operation.

     IV.  To institute a label which shall enable the purchaser to
     discriminate in favor of goods produced under healthful conditions.

     V. 1.  Abolition of child labor to the age of sixteen.

     2.  Compulsory education to the age of sixteen.

     3.  Prohibition of employment of minors more than eight hours daily.

     4.  Prohibition of employment of minors at dangerous occupations.

     5.  Appointment of women inspectors, one for every thousand women
     and children employed.

     6.  Healthful conditions of work for women and children.

     The foregoing to be obtained by legislation.

     The following to be obtained by organization:—­

     1.  Equal pay for equal work with men.