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Statement on Domestic Service, (excerpt), April 23, 1929

Addams notes that many women reject domestic service because of its perceived social status.

Labor Lectures Women

Lecture to the Tucson Collegiate Club, March 16, 1929 (summary)

Addams discussed international women's organizations and the role of college women in addressing social problems.

Education Lectures Women's Rights

Speech to the Tucson Woman's Club, March 4, 1929 (summary)

Addams tells the Tucson Woman's Club about the Pan-Pacific Women's Conference.

Conferences Hull-House Lectures

Speech to the Tucson Business and Professional Women's Club, March 2, 1929 (summary)

Addams discusses her involvement in women's clubs and its impact on her work.

Clubs Lectures

Statement on Police Brutality during Picketing, February 23, 1914 (excerpts)

Addams notes the role of private detectives in violence during picketing.

Labor Police

Statement on Acquittal of Ellen Gates Starr, March 21, 1914

Addams tells reporters that she is happy that Ellen Starr was acquitted of disorderly conduct.

Labor Law

Speech to the Arizona Association of Social Workers, February 15, 1929 (summary)

A summary of Addams remarks about her work in Chicago at the Arizona Association of Social Workers.

Lectures Social Work

Speech to the Tucson Women's Club, February 14, 1929 (excerpt)

Addams argues that world peace is coming as nations learn to settle disputes.

Arbitration Peace

Committee on Militarism in Education fomm, ca. January, 1929

The Committee's form for donations.

Requests

The Committee on Militarism in Education: Origin and Aims, ca. January, 1929

The Committee details its history and current efforts in a brochure.

Education Government Military Social Reform War Youth

Committee on Militarism in Education, ca. January, 1929

The Committee summarizes its efforts to remove compulsory military training from schools.

Education Military

Statement on Bill for Navy Cruisers, November 19, 1928

Addams opposes a bill to fund the construction of fifteen naval cruisers because it is hypocritical.

Diplomacy Foreign Policy Military Peace

Statement on Herbert Hoover, October 17, 1928

Addams endorses Herbert Hoover for president at his campaign headquarters.

Agriculture Politics Prohibition

Statement on the Impact of Prohibition, August 30, 1928

Addams remarks on the improvement in the Hull-House neighborhoods since prohibition took effect.

Hull-House Prohibition

Statement on the Kellogg Peace Pact, September 14, 1928

Addams praises the Kellogg Peace Pact in a short interview on her return from the Pan-Pacific Women's Conference.

Government Peace Prohibition

Interview wit Los Gatos Star, September 13, 1928

Addams discusses prohibition, her plan to vote in the presidential election, and the Pan-Pacific Women's Conference.

Conferences Politics Prohibition Women's Rights

Statement on the Pan-Pacific Women's Conference, September 6, 1928

Addams compliments the American women of Chinese and Japanese descent in Hawaii.

Patriotism Race

Interview with Louise Landis, September 5, 1928

Landis interviews Addams on her return from Hawaii and she describes the Pan-Pacific Women's Conference.

Conferences Prohibition Women's Rights

Statement on the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, September 4, 1928

Addams argues that the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom has no quarrel with the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Criticism Free Speech Peace

Pan-Pacific Conference, October 4, 1928

The Argus reports on a meeting of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom about the Pan-Pacific Women's Conference.

Australia Conferences Peace

Women and Peace, October 4, 1928

The Age reports on a meeting of the Australian branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

Australia Peace

Women Discuss World Peace, September 29, 1928

The Age reports that the Australian Federation of Women Voters resolved to call on its government to support disarmament.

Australia Disarmament Peace

Speech to the Honolulu League of Women Voters, August 23, 1928 (summary)

Addams advises the League of Women Voters to appeal to women's own lives in order to increase their political participation.

Lectures Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

Luncheon Talk to the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Hawaiian Section, August 21, 1928 (summary)

Addams tells of the history of the Women's League for Peace and Freedom at a luncheon in Honolulu.

Conferences Peace

Lecture on Segregated Vice and Human Trafficking, August 20, 1928 (summary) Also known as Luncheon talk to the Pan-Pacific Club, August 20, 1928 (summary)

Addams argued that vice would cease if the segregated districts in the Pacific were dissolved.

Conferences Human Trafficking Lectures Morality

The Value of the Parent Teacher Association, August 14, 1928 (summary)

Addams argues that the Parent Teacher Association serves as a bridge between foreign-born parents and their children.

Education Immigrants Lectures

Interview with the New York Times, ca. August 1928 (excerpts)

Addams discusses her views on women's organizations after winning the vote.

Politics Woman Suffrage

Interview with Ray Coll, Jr., August 3, 1928

Addams discusses her views on the morality of youth, companionate marriage and the presidential election on arrival in Hawaii.

Conferences Peace Politics Prohibition Women Youth

Statement on Trial Marriages, July 28, 1928

Addams comments on companionate marriage and the marriage of Josephine Haldeman-Julius.

Family Morality Weddings

Statement on Prohibition, August 3, 1928

Addams discusses the impact of Prohibition on the upcoming presidential election.

Politics Prohibition

Statement on Settlements, August 1, 1928

Addams talks about how settlements aims are changing as more social legislation is enacted.

Settlement Movement

Down to Case, August 23, 1928 (excerpt)

News column about the presidential election that includes a short note about Addams.

Journalism Travels

Speech in Carmel, CA. July 25, 1928 (summary)

Addams argues that public opinion is key to ending war.

Lectures Peace War

Statement on Marriage, ca. July 1928

Addams notes that some girls are too choosy to marry.

Humor Marital Relations

Next Steps Toward World Peace, July 10, 1928 (excerpts)

Addams argues that the best way to secure peace is to rally public opinion.

Lectures Peace War

Statement on Peace, July 10, 1928

Addams notes that no organization can ensure peace, just help it along.

Peace

Statement on Youth, July 10, 1928

Addams discusses the challenges facing modern youth.

Lectures Youth

Social Settlements, August 12, 1900 (summary)

Addams discusses the difference between social settlement work and charitable work.

Lectures Settlement Movement

Address to the Kansas City Conference of Social Workers, May 14, 1928 (excerpts)

Addams exhorts social workers to support a bill suspending immigration quota to allow family members of residents to join them.

Government Immigration Lectures Requests

Speech to the World Men's Council, May 12, 1928

Addams speaks in support of the League of Nations and international peace.

League of Nations Lectures Peace

Statement on the Daughters of the American Revolution, May 5, 1928

Addams states that she wants peace with the Daughters of the American Revolution and is not attacking them.

Criticism Patriotism Peace

The B&O Cooperative Plan in Pump Manufacture, December 1930

Business Industry Labor

What Prohibition Has Done for Disadvantaged Communities, May 1932

A compilation of testimony offered by Jane Addams and Evangeline Booth about the impact of prohibition in poor communities.

Poverty Prohibition

Statement on Meeting with Calvin Coolidge, December 10, 1927

Addams reports on her meeting with Calvin Coolidge regarding a possible treaty to outlaw war.

Arbitration Government Peace

Speech on Prohibition to the Chicago Woman's Club, February 1928

Addams discusses her views on prohibition and how it has improved life in the Hull-House neighborhood.

Hull-House Lectures Prohibition

Speech to the Chicago Sunday Evening Club, February 12, 1928 (excerpts)

Addams notes that politicians, rather than idealists, are responsible for most achievements in peace.

Lectures Peace Politics

Speech on Prohibition to the Chicago Woman's Club, February 1928 (excerpts)

Addams claims that prohibition has improved life in the Hull-House neighborhood.

Hull-House Lectures Prohibition

Does Prohibition Work?, March 23, 1928 (summary)

Addams defends Prohibition and argues that a lack of enforcement has made alcohol use more common and dangerous.

Lectures Morality Prohibition

Speech to the Hyde Park Young Men's Christian Association, March 18, 1928 (excerpts)

Addams argues that people believe that war is inevitable but that it can be stopped. The speech was made before the Hyde Park Young Men's Christian Association.

Lectures Peace Quotes War

Speech to the Hyde Park Young Men's Christian Association, March 18, 1928 (excerpts)

Addams argues that people believe that war is inevitable but that it can be stopped. The speech was made before the Hyde Park Young Men's Christian Association.

Lectures Peace Quotes War

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Lecture on Segregated Vice and Human Trafficking, August 20, 1928 (summary) Also known as Luncheon talk to the Pan-Pacific Club, August 20, 1928 (summary)

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