National Women's Trade Union League of America collection, 1905-1950.

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National Women's Trade Union League of America collection, 1905-1950.

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These records include correspondence, constitution and bylaws of the New York Women's Trade Union League, executive board notes, issues of Life and Labor, list of officers, convention proceedings, and articles. The collection is comprised of duplicates that are in the National Women's Trade Union League of America records housed at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. These records complement the Women's Trade Union League of Chicago scrapbook by providing additional information about union members and their activities, including the Muscatine Button Worker's Strike, the minimum wage movement, the equal rights movement, national conferences, and child labor. It also includes material on Fannia Cohn, Mary Anderson, Margaret Dreier Robins, and Agnes Nestor.

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University of Illinois at Chicago Library, UIC

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University of Illinois at Chicago Library, UIC

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National Women's Trade Union League of America

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The National Women’s Trade Union League of America (NWTUL) was established in Boston, MA in 1903, at the convention of the American Federation of Labor. It was organized as a coalition of working-class women, professional reformers, and women from wealthy and prominent families. Its purpose was to “assist in the organization of women wage workers into trade unions and thereby to help them secure conditions necessary for healthful and efficient work and to obtain a just reward for such work.” ...

New York Women's Trade Union League

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