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is essential to their lives, and that is not what is meant by “labor.” There is no separation between labor and welfare. They are one and the same thing. Welfare isn't in the picture at all. We never let it in. The first law on the books in the State of New York that was labor legislation was a law that required that employers should provide in factories clean and pure drinking water and permit the free access of their employees to it, and its use. That was the first labor law of the State of New York. That was way back in the sixties. The reason it was passed was because some member of the Assembly had it called to his attention in one town, and then verified it in some others, that the people in the textile mills had to go down and scoop water out of the open stream into which the mill disgorged its dyes, waste, and into which the sewage system of the village might discharge to get any water to drink, and they weren't even then permitted to go and get it when they were thirsty. Providing drinking water was essential. It was a good, kind, humane man who would provide this. He said in his statement that he owned a livery stable and when the drivers came in, he always had nice cool water out of his own well, with a dipper attached to the pail, for them. Afterwards they provided a pail of clean water with a dipper in the factories