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Remarks on the Funds for Parents Act, ca. September 26, 1913

Addams discusses the Funds to Parents Act, which provides charitable support for impoverished children.

Charity Lectures Legislation Poverty

Special Report of the Progressive National Service (April-May 1913), July 3, 1913

The Progressive National Service reports on lobbying and legislative efforts undertaken between April 1 and May 15.

Education Labor Legislation Progressive Progressive Party

Legal Provisions which a Model Labor Code Should Contain, ca. July 1913

An outline of provisions for model labor legislation.

Child Labor Labor Legislation Politics Progressive Party

H. R. 5819 A Bill To Create a Commission on Naturalization, June 2, 1913

A House bill, introduced by Victor Murdock, to create a Commission on Naturalization.

Government Immigrants Legislation

Progressive National Service to Jane Addams, April 16, 1913

A letter enclosing a copy of H.R. 5819 for a Commission on Naturalization.

Government Immigrants Legislation Requests

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Louise de Koven Bowen, April 12, 1913

Kellogg writes Bowen regarding a number of labor legislation bills.

Child Labor Legislation Prisons Requests

Jane Addams et al. to Booker T. Washington, February 13, 1913

Addams seeks Washington's aid in a campaign for labor regulations.

Labor Legislation Politics Requests

Jane Addams et al. to Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, February 13, 1913

The American Association for Labor Legislation seeks support of time and money to conduct its work.

Labor Legislation Requests

William Draper Lewis to Jane Addams, January 29, 1913

Lewis writes Addams about the agenda of the upcoming meeting of the Legislative Reference Committee of the Progressive National Service.

Child Labor Legislation Politics Progressive Party Women's Rights

Joint Resolution, January 20, 1913

A proposed resolution setting out the rules regarding the recording of committee meetings.

Legislation Meetings Progressive Party

William Draper Lewis to Sir, January 16, 1913

Draper announces the formation of the Progressive Party's Legislative Bureau, its composition, and its duties.

Legislation Politics Progressive Party

Minutes of the First Meeting of the Progressive Party Legislative Committee, January 9, 1913

Minutes of the first meeting of the Progressive Party's Legislative Committee.

Legislation Politics Progressive Party

Pen and Book as Tests of Character, January 4, 1913

Addams provides an argument against literacy tests for immigrants, proposed by the Burnett Bill recently pased by the U.S. House of Representatives.

Education Government Immigration Legislation Racism

Administrative Provisions of Labor Law, 1913

An outline for administrative provisions of labor law.

Industry Labor Legislation Progressive Party

Charles McCarthy to William Draper Lewis, December 23, 1912

McCarthy offers his assistance in developing a legislative bureau within the Progressive Party.

Legislation Progressive Party

Joseph Medill McCormick to Frank J. Snite, December 14, 1912

McCormick discusses his views on the legislative agenda of the Progressive Party.

Legislation Progressive Party

Charles McCarthy to Jane Addams, December 12, 1912

McCarthy asks Addams for financial backing for his plan to hire stenographers to help create and distribute materials and legislative bills for the Progressive Party Legislative Bureau.

Finances Legislation Progressive Party Requests

Jane Addams et al. to Booker T. Washington, December 7, 1912

Addams et al. ask Washington to join the American Association for Labor Legislation campaign.

Industry Labor Memberships Requests

Mike F. Matheny to Jane Addams, November 29, 1912

Matheny informs Addams about the Progressive legislation agenda and suffrage in West Virginia and asks her to be a part of it all.

Child Labor Labor Legislation Progressive Party Requests

Florence L. Sanville to Jane Addams, November 25, 1912

Following up on a conversation with Addams, Sanville tells her about the situation women face in Pennsylvania and efforts to pass legislation protecting them from long work hours.

Labor Legislation Progressive Party Requests

John Bertram Andrews to Jane Addams, November 21, 1912

Andrews asks Addams, as a member of the Committee on Unemployment, to assist with a report for the American Association for Labor Legislation.

Labor Memberships Requests Unemployment

Boyd Fisher to Jane Addams, November 21, 1912

Fisher invites Addams to a luncheon meeting in New York to discuss efforts to lobby for Progressive legislation.

Legislation Meetings Progressive Party

Jane Addams Sees Progressives as Children's Hope, September 25, 1912

Addams explains the Progressive Party's approach to child labor and legislation.

Child Labor Education Legislation Progressive Party

William Sulzer to Jane Addams, August 13, 1912

Congressman Sulzer asks Addams for her assistance on the passage of a resolution (not found).

Legislation Requests

Theodore Roosevelt's Labor Record, ca. August 1912

An eight-page pamphlet summarizing Roosevelt's political record on labor.

Child Labor Labor Legislation Manufacturing Politics Progressive Party

James H. Van Horn to Jane Addams, February 28, 1912

Van Horn corrects an error in Addams' recent article in McClure's Magazine about the age of consent in Wyoming.

Legislation Woman Suffrage

Statement on Labor Actions, January 2, 1912

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

Anarchism Crime Labor Legislation

Ten Years' Experience in Illinois, March 12, 1911

A published version of Addams' lecture on March 12 at the National Child Labor Committee Conference in Birmingham, Alabama, in which she discussed child labor legislation in Illinois.

Child Labor Education Lectures Legislation Recreation