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  • Mentions: United States Supreme Court
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Addams, Lucia Mead, Crystal Eastman, and Sophonisba Breckinridge testify before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, arguing against preparedness and suggesting ways to end the war.
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Addams, Lucy Mead, Crystal Eastman, and Sophonisba Breckinridge testify before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, on preparedness and the United States' role in World War I.
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Addams argues that international peace is not a failed idea, and even though World War One is in the early stages of fighting it is not to late to stop war from continuing. Bryan also claims that peace is possible with mediation.
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Addams talks about the benefits of woman suffrage for the entire country.
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Addams expresses why the time is now that women should be able to vote, with in regards to the social power women have which can be used for political power.
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Speech given by Addams at the Biennial Convention of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, concerning the role women's clubs has and can further have in shaping policies.
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Speech given by Addams at the Biennial Convention of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, concerning the role of women's clubs in shaping public policies.
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Addams is one of a number of people who sign a call for a conference to examine the situation of African-Americans since emancipation. Various versions of the call appeared in newspapers across the country.
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Addams advocates for world peace, arguing the advantages of international arbitration over war. This is the final article of a monthly, year-long series on economic and social reform in America and a woman's role to affect change.
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Addams argues for a minimum wage for female workers. This is the third article of a monthly, year-long series on economic and social reform in America and women's role in affecting change.
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An essay collected from Addams' writings on children, child labor, and recreational opportunities in the city.
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Addams discusses working conditions for women and advocates for a minimum wage for female workers.
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Addams argues for the implementation of a minimum wage for female workers.
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Addams offers a biographical justification of why she has entered politics and joined the Progressive Party. The article was published in October 1912.
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Bernheimer's peace plan focuses on the United States taking the lead in peace talks between the Allied nations and their opponents as the highest standing neutral nation.
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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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George W. Perkins discusses the Woodrow Wilson administation and the government's efforts to break the monopoly of the American Telephone Company.
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Addams explores the economic plight of young women that often drives them to prostitution and white slavery. This is the second in a five-part series, which would ultimately be published as A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil in 1912.
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A compilation of Addams' writings on reducing child labor, and increasing playgrounds and education for working-class children.
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Lindsey writes Addams to explain a campaign to discredit his work to regulate crime against women.
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Addams explains the relationship between education, religion, labor, and crime as she has experienced it in Chicago.
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Speranza complains to MacChesney that his committee has been unable to do much on their research on immigrants and crime.
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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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Wigmore congratulates Addams on her role in making an important U.S. Supreme Court decision possible and apologizes for failing as yet to visit her at Hull-House.
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Ely forwards Addams part of a letter from Justice O. W. Holmes of the U. S. Supreme Court, expressing how much he liked Addam's book Democracy and Social Ethics.