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Safety was being formed at that time and the Consumers' League was a cooperating agency with the Committee on Safety. I sat on some of their committees, boards, and so on.

The only act that all the social agencies that were concerned, including the Consumers' League, the National Association for Labor Legislation, the Committee on Safety, the AICP, and the others, agreed upon was that there must be right away passed in that session of the Legislature the appointment of a commission, which was to be an official commission. It was called the New York State Factory Investigation Commission or Factory Fire Investigating Commission. I don't remember who it was, but probably a man from the National Association of Labor Legislation pointed out that we knew from our own knowledge of other great accident hazards in factories and we might as well do the whole show while we were started.

Anyhow, we petitioned for that committee. That was the great legislation of that spring term. It went on until June or quite late that year when the Legislature adjourned. The Committee on Safety was formed in 1911. I was working with them, but was not their executive secretary until 1912. I was still with the Consumers' League. But we all joined in getting this legislation. We used every contact we had.