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

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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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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 reports to Smith on events of her trip to New York, meetings, dinner parties, and news of family and friends.

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

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Addams discusses means of closing the divide between capitalist and trade unions.

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Addams' speaks to the Consumer's League about the dangers of sweat shops and child labor.

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Addams writes to the members of the General Federation of Women's Clubs regarding the organization's work with child labor and the letter

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Also known as Address to the Chicago Ethical Society, December 20, 1903

The Inter Ocean summarizes Addams' lecture on rising corruption in trade union leadership.

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Addams discusses the role that education plays in the life of the workingman. This article is an excerpt from Democracy and Social Ethics.

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Addams congratulates Blaine and the City Homes Association for their hard work and remarks on a discussion she had with Charles Eliot about the closed shop.

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A newspaper report that includes an excerpt from Addams' talk to the Hull-House Woman's Club on the object and history of the Women's Trade Union League.

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Addams discusses public reaction against trade-unions, strikes, and their activities.

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Addams writes in support of Florence Kelley's application, noting her work on labor laws in Illinois.

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Devine thanks Addams for her letter and promises to do what he can to secure Kelley's nomination as NY Labor Commissioner.

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Addams addressed a meeting of teachers and laborers on the need for funds to support better education on February 11; the lecture was published on March 5, 1905.

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Excerpts from Addams' speech discussing conditions for individual women workers who seek to improve wages and working conditions.

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At the inaugural conference of the Women's Trade Union League, held at the Berkeley Lyceum in New York, Addams argues that women workers should unionize to improve working conditions.

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Addams discusses the evil effects of child labor on labor practices and education.

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Newspaper account of Addams's comments after all-night efforts to settle a teamsters' strike ended in failure. These quotes are part of a larger news article on the negotiations.

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Addams reports that the strike was the topic of her latest speaking tour, and looks forward to Landsberg's recovery from illness.

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Addams discusses the history of suffrage and argues that women in modern, urban societies need the vote.

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Midwood is studying in Amherst College and is interested in philanthropy.

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Also known as Address on Industrial Education, November 16, 1906 (fragment)

Addams gave this speech at a public meeting held by the Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education, at Cooper Union, along with Henry Pritchett, Frank Vanderlip, Frederick Fish, Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank P. Sargent, and others. Addams' appeal, unlike the other speakers, identified with the plight of working people and argued that industrial education would better their lives.

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Addams indicates that she needs copies of Newer Ideals of Peace for distribution to politicians, and thus would like a few sent even if the rest do not come out until January.

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Addams introduces the Chicago Industrial Exhibit's goals and content for publication in its Handbook.

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Addams was one of six people who commented on John R. Commons' paper at the American Sociological Society meeting in Madison, Wisconsin, in December 1907. Addams' comments were published in the proceedings.

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Post informs Addams that the newspaper coverage of the Women's Trade Union League's decision to move their meetings from Bowen Hall at Hull-House to the Chicago Federation of Labor Hall was inaccurate and designed to cause hard feelings.

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Addams discusses with Commons her plans to start a League for labor legislation in Chicago and requests a visit with him and Richard T. Ely.

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Ely expresses enthusiasm for Addams' proposal to start a local chapter of the American Association for Labor Legislation and suggests people who can help.

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Addams updates Ely on the efforts to form a Chicago branch of the American Association for Labor Legislation.

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Addams gives arguments for woman's suffrage, stressing that working class need it to be able to control some aspects of their lives.

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Osgood writes Addams about a legislative opportunity in Illinois for the Chicago branch of the American Association for Labor Legislation.

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Addams sends a copy of the invitations for the meeting of the American Association of Labor Legislation to Osgood.

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Osgood invites Addams to speak at the Chicago meeting of the American Association of Labor Legislation and asks for a meeting beforehand.

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Addams writes Osgood about the importance of John Commons' attendance at the American Association for Labor Legislation meeting.

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Addams asks Osgood to send receipts for reimbursement to her and John Commons for their visit to Chicago to help establish a branch of the American Association for Labor Legislation.

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Addams compares the United States' treatment of women and children in labor to the ways of European countries. This speech was given at public meeting associated with the Conference on the Care of Dependent Children, in Washington, D.C. on January 25, 1909.

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Osgood asks Addams to write an article for the Survey laying out the problem of different labor legislation standards from state to state.

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Addams writes Andrews about a letter he sent her.

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The American Association for Labor Legislation prepared this form letter to gather support in Illinois for limiting work for women to 60 hours per week.

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Addams and a number of other leaders petition President Taft to open a commision to study the conditions of labor, its relation to the government, the cost of strikes, and trade unions.

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Newspaper report of an Addams' statement about the causes of violent labor actions being antiquated laws.

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Addams' remarks at the January 13 City Club's Housewarming meeting on Labor called for bettering relations between labor unions and the City Club.

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A newspaper report of Addams's speech to the Milwaukee branch of the Wisconsin Woman Suffrage Association, which  uses humor to render the male arguments against woman suffrage absurd. A version of this speech was later published in the Ladies' Home Journal.

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Addams sends her regrets to Andrews that she cannot become a contributing member to the American Association for Labor Legislation.

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Addams sends Robins a copy of her suggestions (not found) for Alexander McCormick.

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Addams lays out the Progressive Party's pledge to working women--the prohibition of night work, the institution of the eight-hour day, and a minimum wage in sweated industry. This is one of a series of articles she prepared for the Central Press Association for the Progressive Party campaign in 1912.

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Addams described the Progressive Party's support for the dependents of prisoners, by allowing wages they earn in prison to be sent to their families. It also supports calls for social insurance that would protect the poor in case of injury or old age. This is one of a series of articles prepared for the Central Press Association as part of the Progressive Party campaign in 1912.

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Addams describes the Progressive Party's pledge to support new immigrants by creating protection for industrial laborers. This is one of a series of articles she prepared for the Central Press Association as part of the Progressive Party campaign in 1912.

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