The		Papers

Reel 176

795 SG to Alice Paul, 10-30-13, re: invitation to teach at suffrage school.

Reel 177

275 SG to Mrs Bruce Babbitt, 12-16-13, women's suffrage

Reel 178

3 D.S. Beasley to SG, 11-21-13, organizing girls, Petersburg, VA.

695 SG to Johnson, 2-2-14, re: Res. 126, to prohibit white women and girls from working in Chinese owned establishments

Reel 179

663 SG to Appleton, 2-25-14, on passage of protective legislation for women in the District of Columbia [this goes out to many other European labor leaders]

Reel 180

228 SG to Golden, 3-7-14, setting up meeting with Robins re: organizing women

616 SG to Tovey, 3-17-14, organizing girls in Chicago

Reel 181

757 SG to Conboy, 4-30-14, assessment to organize women workers [this goes out to many others]

922 Josephine Casey to SG 4-30-14, on female organizers

Reel 184

623 SG to Forbes, 7-27-14, organizing women

653 Conway to SG, 7-24-14, re: Commission on Working Women

Reel 187

632 SG to Bronson, 11-4-14, women's suffrage

Reel 189

816 SG to Robins, 1-22-15, If AFL continues to fund NWTUL organizer, they want some say and reports [Reel 190, Robins to SG, 2-1-15, notes typo; See also, reel 127, 1425: WTUL accounts for Jan. 1914]

Reel 192

956 SG to CL Baine, 4-9-15 re: Mary Anderson

Reel 193

672 SG's statement on Women's suffrage, [see also, SG to Creel, 4-29-15, 671]

Reel 196
691 SG to Robins, 7-28-15, apppoints Mary Anderson general organizer

Reel 198

322 SG to Mary Anderson, 9-15-15, re: organizing.

426 SG to Van Winkle, 9-18-15, article re women suffrage enclosed.

Reel 201

504 SG to Hunt and Joyce, 12-31-15, female organizer

Reel 202

219 SG to Bryant, 1-15-16, re: female munitions workers (more, 1-29-16, 785)

763 SG to Levy, 1-29-16, organizing female cigarmakers [see also reel 36, AFL Records, ca. frame 1658]

Reel 210

476 Lewis to SG, 7-13-16, Carpenters protesting dual union of female Boxmakers (however members are not eligible to join Carpenters)

Reel 213

756 Henry F. Hollis to SG, 10-3-16, wants AFL women to stump for Democratic National Committee (SG action, 755)

Reel 214

956 SG to Larger, 11-7-16, 8 hrs for women, WTUL campaign

Reel 222
121 SG to Lewis, 5-25-17, women workers

Reel 223

457 Barfield to SG, 6-21-17, equal pay for women (related information follows; Scharranberg's letter, 456)

Reel 224

220 Donnelly to SG, 7-9-17, re: women in industry--opposed: Women’s patriotism should not be exploited to remove them from the home and furnish cheap labor.

580 Anne H. Shaw to SG, 7-25-15, re: Women's registration for war work.

756 SG to Bowen, 8-1-17, Rubber workers in Australia, trying to substitute women for men [goes out to others]

Reel 225

591 SG to Maloney, 8-23-17, women want two women on the Council of National Defense Labor Adjustment committee [a few women referred to are identified in letters that follow].

Reel 226

512, Glenning to SG,[ nd] re: organizing female housekeepers at arsenal [cover letter, 9-19-17, says he just received it] "We know you are a busy man at Washington, but we are also human beings and cannot stand to be trampled on no longer."

907 Merk to SG, 9-30-17, girl telephone operators on strike (more, reel 227, 7; 11; 404; more AFL Records, reel 89, 9)

Reel 227

54 SG to Scully, 10-5-17, brief note to female organizer on successful strike

504 Finnegan to SG, 10-14-17, Union Machinists being replaced by women who earn half as much (passes it on to WB Wilson, 710; more 711)

Reel 228

87 SG to Valentine, 11-3-17, Women complain re:male organizer, all relevant letters follow.

Reel 229

443 Minutes of conference, 12-18-17, re: women in industry, unemployment

Reel 230

171 SG to Forbes, 1-8-18, female volunteer organizers appointed

537 SG to Rankin, 1-18-18, re: Agnes Nestor’s appointment to W.B. Wilson’s advisory commission [very brief]

646 Scully to SG, 1-19-18, employer engaged in war work is replacing $15 men with $8 boys and cutting girls’ wages – those who complain are threatened with arrest for treason. [reel 231 more, 40]

Reel 231

378 Harris to SG, 2-4-18, women replacing men workers

432 SG to Malone, 2-7-18, re: women appointments to DOL councils [her telegram, reel 92, 113, 1-29-18]

Reel 233

96 SG to Ayers, 3-16-18, urging his Federal Labor Union to accept as members girls who worked during strike.

434 SG to Larger, 3-29-18, WTUL and 8 hr law

Reel 234

707 Hutcheson to SG, 4-25-18, no women in UBCJA [for original letter see AFL Records, Reel 35, fr. 2542]

Reel 235

300 SG to Leighty, 5-21-18, AFL has seven women organizers– doing everything they can to organize women.

999 SG to Keating, 6-12-18, supporting pay increase for women engravers [more, 1018]

Reel 236

20 SG to Catt. 6-15-18, woman’s suffrage resolution passed; sent to President Wilson ( telegram, p. 19)

499 SG to Marsh, 7-6-18, [Emmeline] Pankhurst came to his office; recommends her to Speakers Bureau.

503 CT Wicks to SG, 7-1-18, he’s trying to organize car works; some interesting comments on women and boys

553 Anderson and Van Kleeck, 7-5-18, women’s training and wages [SG’s letter, 552; more, reel 96, 540, 548 ]

Reel 241

855 Laura Cannon to SG, 5-9-19, female organizer at GE factory has organized telephone operators and lamp workers, but has not gotten paid. [sends it on to Noonan, 5-12-19, 854; Cannon’s letter to Ft Wayne Federation of Labor follows, 857, with details]

434, SG to Lord, 6-11-19, Sara Conboy to christen good ship AFEL; foremost constructive woman in the movement he says

Reel 243

133 Spills to SG, 7-13-19, re: RR Store room clerks, Meridian, Miss., who are white and demand to be treated “as clerks and white.” The writer, District organizer for AFL, is female. [131, sent on to Brotherhood of Railway Carmen]

623, Mickell to SG, 8-5-19, Charlotte SC organizer getting up a women’s union but members want a male president

Reel 256

474 Newman to SG, 8-12-20 open shop in Philadelphia, nb, Newman becomes a vip in ILGWU education dept. [471 SG to Newman, 8-16-20; more, 686; reel 257, 621, 779]

Reel 257

167 SG to Green, 9-1-20, getting women to back labor in coming election

759 Sire to SG, 9-16-20, working with Democratic National Committee to get women’s vote [more 945, 946]

Reel 259

350, SG to Hamilton, 11-16-20, re: women: The state steps in to protect women in their economic life because of the inability of women to fight their own battles

Reel 267

196, SG to Warren, 7-13-21, AFL stenographers can have their outing at the beach, but their manner in presenting the question was “untoward.

Reel 269

124 Circular, 8-20-21, re:Women workers resolution; replies, AFL Records, reel 31, ca fr. 1167]

Reel 276

333 SG to Pidgeon, 2-6-22, why he opposed Women’s Rights bill.

580 SG to McCabe, 2-9-22, Domestic Workers unions

Reel 277

132 SG to Stevens, 2-27-22, Housewives union

282 SG to Hanly, 3-1-22, on organizing women; same goals different problems--which is why he opposes Equal Rights Amendment

442 SG to Valentine, 3-1-22, re: female organizer and IBEW member.

Reel 278

592 Stillman to SG, 3-21-22, Female candidate for governor of S. Dakota who comes out of the Teachers Union

Reel 279

315 SG to Messer, 4-11-22, Minimum wages for women

Reel 287

45 SG to Conboy et al, 1-2-23, Women’s Bureau, Women’s Industrial Conference; notes that it will be held in New National Museum.

Reel 288

475 SG to Jane Grant, Lucy Stone Society, 2-8-23, only way for women to get what they want is for those who want it, to take it.

481, SG to Mary J. Macaulay – she’s an international officer of Commercial Telegraphers

Reel 289

830 SG to O’Donnell, 4-5-23, does not favor separate working women’s voters league

841 SG to Ryder 4-5-23, Equal Right Amendment and minimum wage law for women

Reel 290

311 SG to Smith, 4-25-23, time to try and organize Washington, D.C., women workers! [sent to others 310-22]

476 Circular, 4-30-23, re: Supreme Court decision meeting, 4-24-23. and campaign to organize women workers in Washington, D.C.

924 SG to McCarthy, 5-17-23, Tobacco strippers still have not joined CMIU

1011 SG to Stevens, 5-4-23, information re: U.S. Supreme Court decision on minimum wage for women ; more Reel 294, 987]

Reel 291

557 Swain et al, 6-6-23, reply to SG to Duncan, 5-14-23; mentions women Barbers [more, 555, 566, 657-663]

Reel 295

897 SG to Conboy, 12-5-23, Coolidge will meet a committee of working women to protest Equal Rights Amendment [sent to others, 898-99; Reel 296, 60 meeting set for 12-12-23]

967 SG to International Union Presidents, 12-4-23, questionnaire on women workers

Reel 296

365 SG to Bramley, 12-17-23, How does the British TUC organize women? Gertrude Drake’s report

Reel 297

33 Circular, 2-28-24, re: Women in Industry conference; questionnaire and other information follows, including female membership in national unions; also how they organize in England and Germany

429 R. L. Guard to Schaeffer, 3-8-24, SG is in N.Y. for conference on organizing women workers

574 SG to Trotter, 3-18-14, a breakdown of women workers based on Mary Anderson’s study of the census

656 Draft conclusions of conference to organize women enclosed in SG to Conboy et al, 3-14-24, p. 655 [nb, another copy, Reel 298, p. 20, is sent out with call for meeting, 3-29-24]

660 SG to Baine, 3-14-24, more on women’s conference

669 SG to Kahn, 3-20-24, his view of girls

861 SG to Quesse, 3-27-24, he is going to Chicago to push women’s organizing campaign.[SG to Christman, 857 ; also goes to others, 856; 857-866.

878 SG to Perkins, 3-27-24, more on above; notes that an understanding with WTUL will have to be reached for plan to work; also sent to Woll, 876.

Reel 298

95 SG to Rickert, 4-2-24, why he should go to the women’s organizing conference

Reel 299

63 Circular to International Union presidents, 6-28-24, re: Women in industry; notes few replies to last circular

288 SG to International Union presidents, 7-19-24, more on women workers organizing campaign

Reel 300

237 SG to Shanessy, 9-14-24, congratulations on finally taking in women barbers!

328 SG to Mary Anderson, 9-16-24, organizing women

384 SG to Perkins, 9-27-24, what happened to the women’s organizing campaign

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