Women's Trade Union League Papers on Microfilm, 0000-2999
Collection Number: 5690 mf
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Women's Trade Union League Papers on Microfilm, 0000-2999
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5690 mf
Abstract:
Consists of microfilm copies of the papers of the National and New York Women's Trade
Union Leagues and the papers of several leaders within those leagues.
Creator:
Women's Trade Union League
Quanitities:
14.56 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
The Women's Trade Union League was founded in Boston in 1903 during the annual convention
of the American Federation of Labor. In 1907 its name became the National Women's
Trade Union League of America. Local branches were organized within a year in Boston,
Chicago and New York. The League sought to counter the exploitation of working women
by organizing them into trade unions and by securing protective legislation regulating
their hours and working conditions and setting minimum wage standards. The three main
goals of the League were the organizing of women workers, education and legislation
Its dual membership of working and middle class women made the WTUL unique among social
reform organizations of its day. The WTUL established the first residential workers'
education program in the U.S. in Chicago in 1914, the Training School for Women Organize
As the League's president from 1907 to 1922, Margaret Dreier Robins, the well-to-do
daughter of a Brooklyn businessman, guided it through the period of its most active
work. Among her close associates were several working class women who served as officers
of the national or local Leagues, including Leonora O'Reilly of New York and Agnes
Nestor and Mary Anderson of Chicago. After 1922, working women took over the leadership;
Rose Schneiderman, a veteran leader of strikes in the needle trades, served as national
president from 1926 to 1950.
Consists of nine parts, including eleven collections: 1. Margaret Dreier Robins papers
(66 reels); 2. National Women's Trade Union League papers (4 reels); 3. Mary Anderson
papers (4 reels); 4. Records of the New York Women's Trade Union League (25 reels);
5. Leonora O'Reilly papers (13 reels); 6. Rose Schneiderman Papers (2 reels); 7. Agnes
Nestor papers (7 reels); 8. Smaller collections: Mary Kenney O'Sullivan autobiography;
Boston Women's Trade Union League collections; Chicago Women's Trade Unio League collection
(1 reel); 9. Women's Trade Union League publications (9 reels).
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archivist for access to these materials.
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and
Procedures for Document Use.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Women's Trade Union League Papers on Microfilm #5690 mf. Kheel Center for Labor-Management
Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Related Collections: 5709 mf: National Women's Trade Union League of America Records on Microfilm
Names:
Anderson, Mary, 1872-1964.
Dreier, Mary E.
James, Edward T.
Nestor, Agnes, 1880-1948.
O'Reilly, Leonora, 1870-1927.
O'Sullivan, Mary Kenney, 1864-1943.
Robins, Margaret Dreier
Schneiderman, Rose, 1882-1972.
National Women's Trade Union League of America.
Women's Trade Union League of Boston.
Women's Trade Union League of Chicago.
Women's Trade Union League of New York.
Subjects:
Feminists--United States.
Hours of labor--Law and Legislation--United States.
Labor laws and legislation--United States.
Lobbyists.
Social legislation--United States.
Wages-- Women--Law and legislation--United States.
Women in trade-unions--United States--Organizing.
Women-- Suffrage--United States.
Women-- United States--Social conditions.
Women--Working conditions--United States.
Women--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States.
Women's rights--United States.
Women social reformers -- United States.
Working class women--United States.
Working conditions-- Law and legislation-- United States.
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Records of the New York Women's Trade Union League (reel 1)
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Rose Schneiderman papers (reel 1)
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Agnes Nestor papers (reel 1)
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Small Collections Reel- Mary Kenney O'Sullivan Autobiography, Boston & Chicago
WTUL
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Women's Trade Union League publications (reel 1)
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