Extension Activities If you would like to learn more about efforts to improve working conditions in factories and canneries at the turn of the 20th century, you can read two primary source documents. These are documents written by people at the time to persuade others to support labor laws. Reading #1: Life in the Canneries This is a report published by the US Bureau of Labor in 1911 about the terrible conditions in a Baltimore cannery. Reading #2: To Trade Union Women This is an editorial from a newspaper called Life and Labor, written by Mary E. Dreier in 1913. Ms. Dreier was an advocate for laws to protect women and children in factories.

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