Working sisters, fix your own hours of labor!
Organize!
You will need no laws to save you from coming
to work before 6 and leaving after 9.
-Rose Schneiderman
Hellraisers Journal, Friday March 27, 1908
Stirring Appeal to “Working Sisters” by Rose Schneiderman
As the Women’s Trade Union League continues its work on behalf of working women (see below), we pause to recall a fiery speech by one of our favorite union organizers.
From The Pittsburgh Press of June 30, 1907:
From The Pittsburgh Press of July 19, 1907:
From the New York Tribune of March 22, 1908:
John Spargo to Speak
John Spargo, who wrote “The Bitter Cry of the Children.” is to speak at the annual meeting of the Women’s Trade Union League, Friday evening, March 27, at 8:15 o’clock. His subject will be women-“Unemployed Women and the Industrial Crisis.” Charles Edward Russell will speak on “Overemployed Women.” At the same meeting Miss Mary E. Dreier, president of the league, will review the work of the organization for the last year, and give an account of the proceedings of the national convention held by the Women’s Trade Union League, a convention which represented over twenty thousand working women.
The league helped in the organization of one hundred unions last year, and did a great deal also in the way of teaching foreign working women to speak English.
The meeting will be held at Labor Temple, 84th street, between Second and Third avenues.
[Photograph added.]
From the Los Angeles Herald of March 24, 1908:
SIX MILLION WORKING WOMEN TO BE ORGANIZED
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Movement Started in New York to Form an
Association of All Feminine Employes
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NEW YORK, March 23.-Organization of the working women of the United States is proposed by the Women’s Trade league, one of whose organizers, Miss Lenora O’Reilly, told the members of the Central Federated union at their meeting yesterday that there are between five and six million working women in the United States and that the league would not cease its efforts until it had organized them all.
Miss O’Reilly asked for speakers for the mass meeting in aid of the movement, which is to be held Friday evening in the Labor temple.
As a result of her request Charles E. Russell will speak on “Overemployed Women” and John Spargo on “The Unemployed.”
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[Photograph added.]
SOURCES
The Pittsburgh Press
(Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
-June 30, 1907
https://www.newspapers.com/image/142185489/
-July 19, 1907
https://www.newspapers.com/image/142133936/
New York Tribune
(New York, New York)
-Mar 22, 1908
https://www.newspapers.com/image/88191014/
Los Angeles Herald
(Los Angeles, California)
-Mar 24, 1908
https://www.newspapers.com/image/78613433/
IMAGES
Mary E Dreier, Brk Dly Egl p8, Oct 3, 1908
https://www.newspapers.com/image/53940975/
Leonora O’Reilly 1870-1927
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonora_O%27Reilly
See also:
Women’s Trade Union League
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Trade_Union_League
Mary Dreier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Dreier
Rose Schneiderman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Schneiderman
All for One
-by Rose Schneiderman with Lucy Goldthwaite
P. S. Eriksson, 1967
https://books.google.com/books?id=SQcFAQAAIAAJ
Union Maid
To Honor Also Women’s Auxiliaries Who Fought Beside Their Men: