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Addams discusses the problems that charity workers face when they bring middle-class assumptions about the poor to their efforts to practically help them.

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Addam's notes for a tribute to Alzina Parsons Stevens, the president of Hull-House's Woman's Club.

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Addams discussed the role of schools in preparing children for life in a speech at the Ethical Society.

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Addams thanks Blaine for her donation, which will secure future manual classes and the Labor Museum.

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Women argue against setting a weekly salary of $2,50 because it was not sufficient to health and well-being.

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Addams comments on increasing the scope of the Women's International Labor League. This was taken from a longer news article.

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Addams discusses the fear that if the Housemaid's union strikes, men will take their place permanently.

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Addams and Henrotin discuss the need to form a union for housewives at a meeting of the Chicago Workingwoman's Association.

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Addams speaks on uplifting and empowering the experiences of domestic workers.

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Addams discusses the evils of the sweatshop system and urges women to look for the union label when shopping for goods.

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Gompers writes Addams regarding Ben Tillett's visit to Chicago and the prospect of Tillett delivering an address at Hull House.

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A summary of Addams' talk on Tolstoy and settlements, given at the First Unitarian Church in Minneapolis.

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Addams provides an overview of the activities of the Hull-House Labor Museum, complete with illustrations of weaving. The sixteen-page report discusses the weaving and cloth-making techniques of various immigrants who live in the Hull-House neighborhood.

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Addams speaks to the Traction Commission, representing the working people living in the 19th Ward and seeking a reduction of public transportation fares.

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An article about an upcoming conference of employers and employees centered on discussion of the eight-hour workday.

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Ely explains to Addams that he will write a series of articles for Harper's Weekly and describes an idea to her for his next article.

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Warren praises Addams' speech about child labor that she delivered in Los Angeles.

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Addams's second of two lectures on the topic of "Newer Ideals of Peace," this one about the impact of labor and trade on international relations.

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Addams discusses how the peasant influenced the work of Tolstoy and his approach to labor.

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Addams discusses the Hull-House Labor Museum and the effect of factories on craftsmanship.

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Charles Love criticizes the tendency of employers and employees to have separate lives outside the shop door, and he seeks a new social order in which they would interact at work and outside of work.

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Barnes writes to Addams about her book, Democracy and Social Ethics, and expresses some concerns about her ideas.

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Jones sends Addams funds for the miners on strike and offers his opinion on the issue.

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Reports the creation of a resolution by the Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs to name Jane Addams to President Roosevelt's commission to settle a miner's strike.

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Keith writes to Addams about the Chicago Board of Education.

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