Sheepshanks sends Addams the resolution passed by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom's Economic Committee and asks for her views.
Addams provides reasons for disarmament as a means to better the economy, reduce unemployment and taxes, and improve international relations. The speech was given at the Eccleston Guildhouse in London and then published.
Addams provides reasons for disarmament as a means to better the economy, reduce unemployment and taxes, and improve international relations. She gave the speech at the Eccleston Guildhouse in London on September 18, 1921.
Addams encloses a letter from James Barr and supports his idea that the American Association for Labor Legislation should hold a conference on the unemployed.
Addams discusses the economic, social, and human toll of unemployment and offers some creative solutions to the problem being employed in England. This is the ninth article of a monthly, year-long series on economic and social reform in America and women's roles in affecting change.
Straus declines Addams' request to participate on the Committee on Immigrants of the National Conference of Charities and Correction because of his position as Secretary of Commerce and Labor.
Addams discusses the problems that charity workers face when they bring middle-class assumptions about the poor to their efforts to practically help them.
