Index

Abolitionists, 14, 164–65

Abortion issue, 292

Addams, Jane, 39, 60–61, 93, 107, 108, 199

Adler, Felix, 99

AFL, see American Federation of Labor

Alarm (newspaper), 49, 52, 68

Altegeld, John, 63, 70, 83, 86

Amalgamated Clothing Workers, 106

American Alliance for Labor and Democracy, 199

American Federation of Labor (AFL), 13, 21–22, 31–35, 47, 89, 98, 181, 201, 252

effects of Red Scare on, 200

Flynn criticizes, 104–5

formed, 33–35

growing conservatism of ( 1900s), 92–93

IWW and, 125, 126, 142

ILGWL’ compared with, 218

M. Kenney and, 61–63, 96

LFLU and, 54–55

Lawrence strike and, 241, 264–65, 269

Uprising of Thirty Thousand and, 227

WTULand, 102–6, 108, 109, 115, 118, 120–23

during World War I, 199

1894 convention of, 88

1903 convention of, 96

1907 convention of, 102

1915 convention of, 122–23

See also specific affiliated unions

American Federalitmisl (newspaper), 52, 91, 231

Anarchist movement, 12, 32, 49, 232

Anderson, Mary, 102, 121

Anthony, Susan B., 61, 166

Asacog House, 115

Ashleigh, Charles, 132–33, 179–80

Ashley, Jessie, 157, 170, 198

Asiatic immigration exclusion bill (1909), 105, 109

Association of Waist and Dress Manufacturers, 227

Atlantic Cotton Mill (firm), 244

Autonomous women’s movement, 14, 289–93

Barnum, Gertrude, 62–63, 110, 117–18, 170

Beal, Fred, 246, 254

Beard, Mary, 171, 172, 177–78

Bebel, August, 36, 146, 186

Beldner, Sophie (Vasilio), 129–31

Bellamy, Edward, 146

Belmont, Alva (earlier Alva Vanderbilt), 167, 229–30

Belmont, Oliver Hazard Perry, 229

Berger, Victor, 194, 195, 259, 271, 272

Birth control, 140, 180, 197, 280, 292

IWW and, 128, 156–63, 281

Bisno, Abraham, 28, 35, 79–81, 86, 138–39, 300n

Black women, 32, 169, 223–27, 279–80

See also Racism

Blackwell, Henry, 166

Blatch, Harriet Stanton, 169–70

Block, Anita, 157, 190, 198

Bloody Sunday (1905), 147

Bloor, Ella Reeve, 192

Bourgeois feminists, 11–13, 20, 21, 284, 321n

in control of contemporary movement, 288–89

in Illinois Woman’s Alliance, 66, 73, 84, 88, 89

importance of vote to, 179–80

in Knights of Labor, 46

in LFLU, 60, 62–63

leading suffrage movement, 164, 167, 168, 170, 174

problems of unity with, 12–13

in WTUL, 96–97, 106–22

in Working Women’s Society, 98, 99

Bradley, Kate, 87

Branstetter, Winnie, 194–95

Breslau-Hunt, Gertrude, 73

Brisbane, Arthur, 99

Brown, Corinne, 54, 56, 66, 68, 72–73, 77, 84–85, 93

Buhle, Mari Jo and Paul, 167

Bullard, Arthur, 258

Byrne, Ethel, 157

Capital (Marx), 34

Cardullo, Rose, 256

Carnegie, Andrew, 26, 27

Caruso, Joseph, 248, 272

Catt, Carrie Chapman, 157, 170

Charity work, Illinois Woman’s Alliance and, 84

Chicago Federation of Labor, 268

Chicago Eight-Hour League, 45

Chicago Trades and Labor Assembly (CT&LA), 35, 43, 47, 48, 51, 60, 70

lllinios Woman’s Alliance and, 67, 68, 73–74, 78–80, 83, 87

Chicago University Settlement, 96

Chicago Women’s Club, 73

Child labor, 29, 30, 64

Illinois Woman’s Alliance opposes, 21, 56, 66, 69, 71–72, 77–82

Knights of Labor oppose, 46

in Lawrence textile mills, 242, 243

suffrage movement and, 168

Clark, Sue Ainslie, 267

Class consciousness

development of, 16

role of labor movement in development of, 19

Communist Manifesto, The (Marx and Engels), 146

Communist Party USA, 162, 179, 289

women membership in, 295n–96n

Community organizing, workplace organization and, 126–30, 285

See also Lawrence strike

Compulsory education

Illinois passes first bill on (1879), 47

Illinois Woman’s Alliance supports, 21, 56, 66, 69, 71–77, 82

Comte, Auguste, 99, 112

Conboy, Sarah, 266, 267

Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 (Engels), 81

Congressional Union (National Woman’s Party), 93, 199–201, 229

Connolly, James, 147

Consumer education work of Working Women’s Society, 99

Consumer’s League, 99

Cook County Suffrage Association, 68, 84

Cooperatives, 34, 100, 120, 269, 300n

Cosmopolitan Club, 225, 226

Cross-class alliances, see United front of women

CT&LA, see Chicago Trades and Labor Assembly

Debs, Eugene V., 111, 184

DeLeon, Daniel, 37

Dell, Floyd, 139

Democratic Party, 164, 166, 170

Dennett, Mary Ware, 157

Depression(s)

1873, 26, 48

1877 and 1903, 26

1907–1909, 91–92

1913, 274

1914, 26

Dickinson, Fanny, 69

Dock, Lavinia, ľ70

Dodge, Grace, 59

Domestic workers

IWW organizes, 134–37

See also Housewives

Downing, Agnes, 198

Dreier, Mary, 109, 115, 118–19, 123, 177, 206, 215–16

Drury, Victor, 97

DuBois, Ellen, 164, 165

DuBois, W. E. B., 226

Dutcher, Elizabeth, 226

Eastman, Crystal, 164, 198, 201

Ebert, Justus, 180

Education, see Compulsory education

Eight-hour day movement, 45, 46, 49–51, 59, 82–87, 98–99

Elliot, Laura, 111–12

Employment agencies (“sharks”), 135–37, 150, 152

Engels, Friedrich, 34, 36, 81, 145, 146, 186

Equal Rights Amendment, 22, 200–1, 292

Equality League of Self-Supporting Women (later Women’s Political Union), 170

Equi, Marie, 157, 161–62, 183

ERA (Equal Rights Amendment), 22, 200–1, 292

Ethical Culture Society, 99

Ettor, Joe, 148, 247–49, 251, 266, 267–70, 272–73

Evans, Elizabeth Glendower, 266–68

Far and Near (magazine), 60

Federal unions, AFL and function of, 54–55

Fifteenth Amendement (1920), 166, 200

Flynn, Annie, 144, 145, 152

Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley, 12, 104, 125, 128, 129, 132, 140–62, 287

background of, 144–49

birth control issue and, 157–58, 160–61

in free speech campaigns, 151–52

joins Communist party, 162

and Lawrence strike, 243, 244, 249–52, 255–56

sexual freedom and, 140–42, 156–57

suffrage movement and, 179, 181–82

women’s rights and, 153–57

Flynn, Tom, 144–45, 148

Forberg, Lillian, 132

Ford, Henry, 123

Foster, William Z., 282

Free speech campaigns of IWW (1908), 149–52

Frick, Henry Clay, 26

Friends of Irish Freedom, 97

Garment industry, 29, 211–12

dependent on cheap female labor, 92

immigrant workers in (1900s; 1910s), 29–30, 211–12

wages in, 29–31, 45

WTUL organizing in, 96

working conditions in, 29–30, 41–42;

see also Sweatshops Working Women’s Union and, 41

See also Uprising of Thirty Thousand

General Federation of Women’s Clubs, 87, 168

See also Women’s clubs

General strike

IWW position on, 125, 126

See also Strike(s); Uprising of Thirty Thousand

George, Henry, 33

Gillespie, Mabel, 266–67

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 170, 184, 292

Giovannitti, Arturo, 248, 249, 251, 266, 272–73

Gluck, Sherna, 201

Goins, Irene, 226

Golden, John, 264–67

Goldman, Emma, 140, 157, 159

Gompers, Samuel, 34–36, 48, 54, 71, 88, 98, 184, 237

and Asiatic immigration exclusion bill, 105

M. Kenney and, 61–62

and minimum wage for women, 118

and Uprising of Thirty Thousand, 206, 208, 222, 231–33

WTULand, 102

Gordon, Linda, 157

Harriman, Edward H., 26

Hart, Schaffner and Marx (firm), 268

Haymarket Square riot (1886), 43, 49–51, 54, 59, 72–73, 121

Haywood, Big Bill, 147, 158

Lawrence strike and, 243, 246, 249–50, 252, 261, 268

Henrotin, Ellen, 87, 303n

Henry, Alice, 12

Henry Street Settlement, 97, 99, 100, 170

Heterodoxy Club, 142–3

Hill, James, 26

Hill, Joe, 125, 129–30, 288

Hillquit, Morris, 218, 231, 269

Hinchey, Maggie, 174–78

Holmes, Lizzie Swank, 45–46, 49–54, 63, 67, 68, 91

Holmes, William, 52

Homestead strike (1892), 62

Housewives, 279–80

in IWW, 127–28, 130–31, 281

in socialist movement, 19–20

in suffrage movement, 167

in Working Women’s Union, 45

Howe, Julia Ward, 168

Howe, Marie Jenney, 142

Huberman, Leo, 26

Hubert, Jean Baptiste, 97

Hughes, Charles Evans, 183

Hughes, Langston, 293

Hull House, 60–63, 81–83, 96, 300n

Huling, Caroline, 68, 84

Hyde, Mrs. Floyd, 140–42

ILGWU, see International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union

Illinois Woman’s Alliance, 14, 63, 65–89, 98, 201

accomplishments of, 21, 66

campaigns against child labor, 21, 56, 71–72, 77–82

campaigns for compulsory

education, 21, 56, 66, 69, 71–73, 76–77

as crossroad in history of women’s movement, 291

end of, 201, 281–83

formed, 52, 56, 66–68

member organizations of, 301n

police brutality fought by, 56, 66, 69–71, 74

strength of left-wing forces in, 12, 287

workplace and community organization by, 285

Immigrant workers, 27–30, 39

Asiatic immigration exclusion bill, 105, 109

exploitation of, 11

in garment industry, 29–30, 211–12; see also Uprising of Thirty Thousand

NAWSA position on, 168–69

number of (1887), 27

number of ( 1910), 29

in textile industry, 242–43; see also Lawrence strike

used as strikebreakers, 27

Industrial unionism, see Industrial Workers of the World

Industrial Workers of the World (IWW; Wobblies), 13, 14, 19, 21, 93, 114, 125–63

birth control issue and, 128, 156–63, 281

domestic workers organized by, 134–37

feminist movement distrusted by, 12

formed, 93, 94, 126

free speech campaign of, 149–50

ILGWU compared with, 218

Lawrence strike and, see Lawrence strike

members of, arrested (World War I), 22

1912 split in Socialist Party and, 194

organizing women in, 126–34

sexual freedom issue and, 137–42

suffrage movement and, 164, 179–84, 281

and united front of women, 281, 282

women’s work in, 287

World War I opposed by, 199

Industrialization, post-Civil War, 25–26

International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU), 14, 106, 178, 237–40, 317n

See also Uprising of Thirty Thousand

Irwin, Inez Haynes, 143

Italian Socialist Federation, 258

IWW, see Industrial Workers of the World

Jacobi, Mary Putnam, 98

Jane Club, 61

Jewish Daily Forward (newspaper), 206, 208, 237

Joan of Arc Assembly, 47

Jones, Jack, 148–49, 152, 153

jungle, TA« (Sinclair), 146

Kaneko, Josephine Conger, 186, 196–97

Kavanaugh, Fannie, 69–70, 74, 84, 85

Kelley, Florence, 63, 80–83, 86, 99, 170

Kenney, Mary, see O’Sullivan, Mary Kenney

Kessler-Harris, Alice, 93

King, Edward, 99

Knights of Labor, 32–34, 46, 49–51, 97

Konikow, Antoinette, 157

Korngold, Janet, 195

Korth, Elizabeth, 54, 56

Kotsch, Georgia, 157

Kraditor, Aileen, 164, 169

Kropotkin, Peter, 146

Ku Klux Kian (KKK), 43, 126

Labor movement

early days of, 34–37

links between women’s movement and, 14–15

need to reunite socialist, feminist, and, 291, 292

post-World War I, 22

pre-World War I, 13

socialist view of, 19

and united front of women, 16–18, 20–21, 280–81 See also specific labor unions

Ladies’ Federal Labor Union (LFLU), 52, 54–64, 66, 67, 70, 73, 77, 86–88

Lassalle, Ferdinand, 34, 35, 301n

Lawrence strike (1912), 14, 102, 105, 125, 133, 152, 158, 203, 223, 241–75

background to, 241–46

beginning of, 245–46

democratic character of, 253

effects of, on women, 253–54

exodus of children during, 258–61

God-and-country offensive following, 273–75

major figures of, 249–51, 255

mass meetings during, 251–52

mass picketing developed in, 247–48

police in, 248–49, 254–55, 260–62

running of, 252–53

support for, 264–71

success of, 263–64

workplace and community organization during, 285

Legere, Ben, 140

Leiserson’s (firm), 206, 209, 213–14, 218

See also Uprising of Thirty Thousand

Lemlich, Clara, 236

suffrage movement and, 171, 174, 177–78

and Uprising of Thirty Thousand, 207–9, 214, 218, 230, 240

Lewis, Lena Morrow, 188, 193, 270

LFLU (Ladies’ Federal Labor Union), 52, 54–64, 57, 58, 70, 73, 77, 86–88

Life and Labor (magazine), 110

Lipson, Samuel, 260, 272

Liss, Josephine, 256

Little, Frank, 130

Lloyd, Henry Demarest, 83, 87

Long Day, The (Richardson), 117

Looking Backward (Bellamy), 146

Lopezza, Anna, 248

Lowe, Caroline, 194

Lowell, Josephine Shaw, 98

Lowell Female Labor Reform Association, 44

Madden, Skinny, 35, 79, 83

Malkiel, Theresa, 11, 192, 196, 230

Malone, Maud, 157

Manufacturers’ Association (Chicago, Ill.), 86–87

Mao Tse-tung, 277

Marot, Helen, 107, 114–15, 118, 219, 221–23, 227, 236, 239

Marvin, Gertrude, 260

Marx, Karl, 34, 97, 112, 145, 146

Marxism, 184

in early days of AFL, 34

in labor unions (1880s to World War I), 16–17

and relation between class and sex, 277–79

in suffrage movement, 14

See also Class consciousness; Class struggle; Socialism and socialist movement; Socialists

Marxist history, 14–16

men in, 14–15

women in, 15–16

Mass picketing in Lawrence strike, 247–48

Mazzini, Giuseppe, 97

Milholland, Inez, 170, 198

Miller, Francis, 249

Mindell, Fania, 157

Minimum wage for women, WTUL and, 118

Mining industry, 127–28

Mitchell, John, 218

Mitchell, Mark, 79, 80

Monopoly capital, post-Civil War concentration of, 26

Morgan, Anne, 229–31, 235

Morgan, Elizabeth, 47–48, 52–54, 56, 66–68, 74–77, 79, 82–88, 93

Morgan, J. P., 26, 191

Morgan, Tommy, 36, 47–48, 67, 83, 87, 88

Mother Jones, 126

Moyer, Charles, 147

National American Women’s Suffrage Association (NAWSA), 93, 167–71, 174, 189–90, 192–93, 198–200, 229–30

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 97, 224

National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), 201

National Guard in Lawrence strike, 246–48, 262, 264

National liberation movements, 13, 22, 280, 292

National Ripsaw (newspaper), 157

National Woman’s Party (Congressional Union), 93, 183, 199–201, 229

National Women’s Trade Union

League, see Women’s Trade Union League

NAWSA (National American

Women’s Suffrage Association), 93, 167–71, 174, 189–90, 192–93, 198–200, 229–30

Nelson, Caroline, 157

Nestor, Agnes, 102, 121

New York Women’s Trade Union League (WTUL), 108, 111, 113–15, 118, 120, 226, 233

New York Socialist Party, 258

Newman, Pauline, 109, 116

O’Brien, Joe, 263

O’Hare, Kate Richards, 157, 188, 192, 197

O’Neill, William, 121

Oppenheim, James, I, 241

O’Reilly, Leonora, 18, 199, 231

suffrage movement and, 170–73, 175–77

WTUL and, 95–124

O’Reilly, Mary, 205

Organizing

becomes a career, 121–22

community, workplace and, 285

O’Sullivan, Jack, 63

O’Sullivan, Mary Kenney, 96, 111, 121

Illinois Woman’s Alliance and, 79, 83, 85, 86

LFLU and, 54–64

Lawrence strike and, 265–66, 268

Ovington, Mary White, 224

Pacific Mills (firm), 246

Pacifist movement, 22, 97, 199

Palmer raids (1919), 200

Paris Commune (1871), 42, 97, 251

Parsons, Albert, 36, 43, 49

Parsons, Elsie Clews, 157

Parsons, Lucy, 41–43, 45, 49, 52

Party organizations

women’s work in, 286–88

See also specific parties

Paterson strike (1913), 125, 158, 268, 271

Paul, Alice, 199

People’s Party, 32, 33

Perkins, Louisa, 98–100, 107

Pettibone, George, 147

Police repression

Illinois Woman’s Alliance campaigns against, 56, 66, 69–71, 74

in Lawrence strike, 248–49, 254–55, 260–62

in Uprising of Thirty Thousand, 221, 231

of women organizers (1880s), 42–43

Political Equality Association, 230

Pomeroy, Billy, 35, 36, 83

Powderly, Terence, 51

Progress and Poverty (George), 33

Progressive Woman (Socialist Women; magazine), 19, 186, 188, 195

Prostitutes

Illinois Woman’s Alliance opposes victimization of, 21, 66, 69–71

and employment “sharks,” 137, 150

used as strikebreakers, 214

women organizers viewed as, 42

Public education, see Compulsory education

Public institutions, Illinois Woman’s Alliance and, 56, 69

Rabinowitz, Matilda (Matilda Robbins), 132, 140, 142, 160

Racism

IWW opposes, 125–26

in ILGWU, 226, 317n

Knights of Labor oppose, 46

NAWSA and, 168

Railroads

building of, 26

1877 strike against, 40, 43

Rankin, Mildred, 226

Rauh, Florence, 198

Red Scare, 200

Reitman, Ben, 157

Repression, see National Guard; Palmer raids; Police repression

Republican Party, 164, 166

Richardson, Dorothy, 117, 298n

Robbins, Matilda (Matilda Rabinowitz), 132, 140, 142

Robins, Margaret Dreier, 183, 226, 233

Lawrence strike and, 266, 268

WTULand, 102–4, 107, 115, 116, 118–19

Robins, Raymond, 107, 109, 233

Robinson, William J., 157

Rockefeller, John D., 26

Rodgers, Elizabeth, 41–43, 45, 47, 51, 53

Rodgers, George, 47

Rosen Brothers (firm), 206, 213

Rudnitsky, Anna, 110–11

Russell, Phillips, 275

Russian Revolution (1917), 200

Ruth, Yetta, 220

St.John, Vincent, 148, 149

Salvation Army, 150

Sanger, Margaret, 157–61, 163, 258, 259

Sanger, William, 157

Schepps, Mollie, 172

Schneiderman, Rose, 102, 108–10, 113, 116, 120, 170, 176, 177, 235–36

Scott, Melinda, 108, 118, 120

Second International, 185, 188

Settlement workers, 20, 32, 96, 100–1 See also specific settlement houses

Sex, relation between class and, 277–79

Sexual freedom issue, 8, 140, 280

Flynn and, 140–42, 156–57

IWW and, 137–42

Shaw, Anna Howard, 230

Shirtwaist makers’ strike, see Uprising of Thirty Thousand

Simons, Algie, 193

Sinclair, Upton, 38, 146

Smedley, Agnes, 157

Social class

relation between sex and, 277–79

suffrage movement and, 166–67, 170–77

unity and, 12–13

WTULand, 106–19

See also Bourgeois feminists; Working-class men; Working-class women

Socialist Labor Party, 21, 32, 42, 88, 93, 126

Socialism and socialist movement, 11, 13, 286

links between labor movement, women’s movement and, 14–15

need to reunite labor movement, women’s movement and, 291, 292

participation in ( 1880s–1918), 18–20

role of, 18–19

See also specfic socialist organirations

Socialist Party, 13, 18, 93, 97, 142, 209, 249

Haywood breaks with, 269–71

IWW and, 126

Lawrence strike and, 264, 268–71, 320n

membership in ( 1912), 19

suffrage movement and, 164, 170, 183–98, 287, 313n

and united front of women, 281, 282

Uprising of Thirty Thousand and, 217, 227–28, 230–31, 233

women’s work in, 286–87

World War I opposed by, 199

Socialist revolution, relation between woman’s liberation and, 277–79

Socialist Suffrage Societies, 193–94

Socialist Trades and Labor Alliance, 88

Socialist Women (Progressive Woman; magazine), 19, 186, 188, 195

Socialists

in pacifist movement (World War I), 22

and birth control issue, 157

division between feminists and (1900s), 94

and early days of labor movement, 34–36

in Illinois Woman’s Alliance, 66, 72–73, 81, 108

in Knights of Labor, 33

in 1960s movement, 288–92, 321n–22n

and organizing women alongside men (1900s), 37

place of women’s movement as seen by, 14–15

support organizations of women (1880s), 36–37

in Working Women’s Union, 42–45, 48–49

Sovereigns of Industry, 48

Spies, August, 36, 50–51

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 166, 169

Starr, Ellen Gates, 83

Stern, Meta, 186

Stevens, Alzina, 41–45, 47, 53, 63, 81

Stokes, Rose Pastor, 157, 230

Stone, Lucy, 166

Street, Jane, 134–38

Strike(s)

1877 railroad, 40, 43

1891 Chicago shoemakers’, 85

1892 Homestead, 62

1893 Chicago garment, 62

1905 Fall River, 305n–6n

1911 maintenance workers’, 171, 244, 268

1912 laundry workers’, 174, 249

1913 Paterson, 125, 158, 268, 271

1916 iron workers’, 128

1926 Passaic, 178

height reached by IWW, 162

immigrants used as strikebreakers, 27–28

IWW position on general, 125, 126

led by Knights of Labor, 46, 51

Pittsburgh (California) fishermen’s, 128

pledge of no, during World War I, 199

prostitues used as strikebreakers, 214

WTUL and, 119, 120

See also Lawrence strike; Uprising of Thirty Thousand

Suffrage movement, 32, 33, 93, 140, 156, 164–201

birth control issue and, 157

conservatism of, 164–69

ERA and, 200–1

IWW and, 164, 179–84, 281

M. Kenney and, 61

R. Morgan’s support for, 47

L. O’Reilly in, 97

social class and, 166–67, 170–77

Socialist Party and, 164, 170, 183–98, 287, 313n

as united front, 14

Uprising of Thirty Thousand and, 229–30

WTUL and, 170, 174, 176–79, 199, 201

and World War I, 199–200

Sullivan, Louis, 39

Swank, Lizzie (later Lizzie Swank Holmes), 39–43, 45–46, 49–53, 63, 67, 68, 91

Sweatshops, 29–30

Illinois Woman’s Alliance campaigns against, 66–69, 71, 73–75, 77–83

Textile industry, 32, 44, 125, 127

See also Lawrence strike; Paterson strike

Tewksbury, Anna, 179

Thompson, James, 150, 242, 244–45, 249

Trade unions, see American Federation of Labor

Trautman, Bill, 249

Tresca, Carlos, 140

Triangle Waist Company, 206, 212, 214, 215

fire at, 234–35

strike against, see Uprising of Thirty Thousand

Typographical Union, 44

UGW (United Garment Workers of America), 100–3, 268, 284

Union Label League, 103–5

Unions, see Labor movement

United front of women, 11–12

autonomous women’s movement and, 14, 288–93

contradictions inherent in, 89, 96

defining, 13–14

labor movement and, 16–18, 20–21, 280–81

left wing of, eliminated (post-World War I), 22

successes and failures of, 20–21

theory of, 279–83

See also specific organizations

United Garment Workers of America (UGW), 100–3, 268, 284, 298n, 304n

United States capitalism, effects of World War I on, 21–22

United Textile Workers (UTW), 264–65

Uprising of Thirty Thousand (shirtwaist makers’ strike; 1909–1910), 14, 20, 93, 171, 177, 178, 190, 203–40, 264, 285

black women in, 223–26

called, 215–16

and conditions in shirtwaist industry, 209–12

end of, 234

meeting preceding, 206–7

police and court treatment of strikers, 220–21

purpose of, 217–18

spirit of, 219, 222

strikes preceding, 212–14

support for, 227–33

Urosova, Natalya, 216

UTW (United Textile Workers), 264–65

Valesh, Eva McDonald, 61, 97–98, 231–33

Vanderbilt, William K., 167, 229

Van Etten, Ida, 61, 97

Victorian ideology in suffrage movement, 168

Vorse, Mary Heaton (Mary Heaton), 250, 251, 253, 258, 263

Wage Earner’s Suffrage League, 171–74

Wages, 30–31

effects of AFL stand on women on, 106

effects of child labor on, 72

in 1890s, 27

in garment industry, 29–31, 45

“iron law of,” 301n

minimum, WTULand, 118

in shirtwaist industry, 209–11

in textile industry, 44, 242, 245

Wald, Lillian, 99–101

Walling, William English, 96, 116

Wealth distribution (1896), 27

Welsenbach, Annie, 256

Western Federation of Miners, 126, 147

Willard, Emma, 47

Williams, Ben, 140, 148, 271–72

Wilson, Woodrow, 175, 183, 199–200

Wobblies, see Industrial Workers of the World

Wolfson, Theresa, 119

Wollstonecraft, Mary, 146

Woman Rebel (magazine), 159

Woman Suffrage Party (WSP), 170–71, 174–77

Woman and Socialism (Bebel), 37, 146

Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WGTU), 32, 33, 47

Women’s clubs, 32, 33, 84

See also General Federation of Women’s Clubs

Women’s National Committee (of Socialist Party), 185, 187, 188, 193–97

Women’s Political Union (Equality League of Self-Supporting Women), 170

Women’s Shoemakers’ Union, 86

Women’s Trade Union League (WTUL), 7, 12, 13, 18, 19, 62, 63, 95–124, 142, 183

AFL and, 102–6, 108, 109, 115, 118, 120–23

cross-class alliances and, 13

failures of, 281

formed, 93, 95–96, 102

ILGWU and, 237, 239

Lawrence strike and, 264–68

1907 depression and, 91–92

social class and, 106–19

Socialist Party and, 184

suffrage movement and, 170, 174, 176–79, 199, 201

Triangle Waist Company fire and, 235, 236

Uprising of Thirty Thousand and, 214, 215, 217, 223, 226–33

Woodbridge, Alice, 98, 99

Wool Trust, 242

Working-class men

and accepting tvomen as equal partners in class struggle, 17

in Marxist history, 14–15

organizational history of, compared to that of women, 18

Working-class women, 11–13, 39–43, 184

development of class consciousness among, 17

in LFLU, 56, 62; see also Ladies’ Federal Labor U nion

major allies of, 20

need for research in history of, 7–8

number of, in labor force (1880; 1910), 29

in suffrage movement, 171–73, 176–78, 180–82 ; see also Su f f rage movement

in united front, 20, 21 ; see also United front of women

in WTUL, 102, 107–18, 120; see also Women’s Trade Union League

See also Domestic workers; Housewives; Lawrence strike; Uprising of Thirty Thousand

Working conditions

of domestic workers, 134

in garment industry, 29–30, 41–42; see also Sweatshops

in stores. Working Women’s Society exposes, 98–99

Working Girls Clubs, 59–60, 88, 111

Working Women’s Society, 61, 81, 97–99

Working Women’s Union, 41–43, 45–49, 52, 54

Workplace organization, community organization and, 126–30, 285; see also Lawrence strike

WSP (Woman Suffrage Party), 170–71, 174–77

WTUL, see Women’s Trade Union League

World War I (1914–1918), 21–22, 199–200

Yates, William, 244, 245, 249–50

Zetkin, Clara, 185, 187–89, 278