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Significance of Organized Labor, September 1898

Democracy Education Labor Women

Social Settlements, August 12, 1900 (summary)

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

Lectures Settlement Movement

Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman to Jane Addams, ca. September, 1900 (fragment)

Haldeman advises Addams about development of the Lake Forest property.

Family Finances

Social Settlement Aims, March 22, 1901 (excerpt)

Addams discusses English settlement work at the Kenwood Evangelical Church.

England Lectures Settlement Movement

Statement on $2.50 Weekly Wage, April 4, 1901

Women argue against setting a weekly salary of $2,50 because it was not sufficient to health and well-being.

Labor Lectures Poverty

Statement on Using Boys as Messengers, April 8, 1901

Addams and Thomas argue why boys 14 and younger should be sent to school rather than work as messengers.

Child Labor

Statement on Apprenticeship System, April 19, 1901

Addams argues that the proposed apprenticeship system needs to be remodeled before it will be effective.

Child Labor Education Manufacturing

Statement on Tenement Housing in Chicago, May 1, 1901

Addams reports on the recommendations of the City Homes Association in regard to the building of tenement houses in Chicago.

Housing Hull-House Lectures Poverty

Statement on Paris Hull House, May 28, 1901

Addams disputes a claim that a settlement house based on Hull-House was to be established in Paris.

France Settlement Movement

Statement on the Safety of the Streets at Night, June 1, 1901

Addams comments how the streets would be safer at night if they were better lit.

Statement on Jewish Peddlers, June 2, 1901 (excerpts)

Addams offers sympathy to Jewish peddlers at a meeting of the Chicago Protective League. This was excerpted from a longer article about the event.

Immigrants Lectures

Statement on Wife Desertion, June 17, 1901

Addams argues against Bicknell's claims that one of the top reasons that men desert their wives is due to poor cooking skills.

Gender Roles

Statement on Expansion of Women's International Labor League, July 19, 1901 (excerpt)

Addams comments on increasing the scope of the Women's International Labor League. This was taken from a longer news article.

Labor Lectures Women

Statement on Proposed Housemaid Union Strike, August 9, 1901

Addams discusses the fear that if the Housemaid's union strikes, men will take their place permanently.

Gender Roles Labor

Speech to the Chicago Workingwomen's Association, August 22, 1901

Addams and Henrotin discuss the need to form a union for housewives at a meeting of the Chicago Workingwoman's Association.

Labor Lectures

Speech at Working Women's Association Meeting, August 22, 1901

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

Labor Lectures Women

Statement on Abraham Isaak and Chicago Anarchists, September 8, 1901

Addams asks the Mayor for permission to see Abraham Isaak and other anarchists arrested in the wake of the McKinley assassination.

Anarchism Courts Crime Immigrants

Statement on Abraham Isaak, September 10, 1901

Newspaper coverage of Addams' statements involving her interest in the case of anarchist Abraham Isaak.

Anarchism Civil Rights Immigrants Politics

Samuel Gompers to Jane Addams, October 17, 1901

Gompers writes Addams regarding Ben Tillett's visit to Chicago and the prospect of Tillett delivering an address at Hull House.

Hull-House Visits Labor Lectures

Statement on Clement Pfuetzner, October 20, 1901 (excerpts)

Addams remarks on an altercation between Clement Pfuetzner and socialists meeting at Hull House.

Statements on H. H. Powers, October 26, 1901 (excerpts)

Addams, Thomas, and Gunsaulus decry the proposal of H. H. Powers to exterminate the feeble-minded for the benefit of the strong.

Susan Parrish Wharton to Jane Addams, November 10, 1901

Wharton writes Addams for suggestions for candidates for a job opening at the Starr Centre.

Jobs Requests Settlements

Statement on Young Couples and Housekeeping, December 27, 1901 (excerpt)

Addams comments on Judge E. F. Dunne's statement that $25 is enough for a young couple to start housekeeping. This was taken from a longer article on the topic.

Home Economics Lectures

Statement on New Year's Resolutions, January 1, 1902

Addams' gives a brief quote on New Years resolutions.

Morality Writings

Speech at the Child-Saving Conference, January 30, 1902 (excerpt)

Addams and Bodine discuss changes needed in compulsory education rules to make them more effective.

Child Labor Education Lectures

School Halls to be Social Centers, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Feb. 24, 1902, p. 3..jpg

Speech to the South Side League of Parents' Clubs Reunion, February 23, 1902 (excerpt)

Addams discusses the role of neighborhood centers can play in fostering community.

Child Welfare Education Lectures Recreation

Susan Parrish Wharton to Jane Addams, March 1, 1902

Wharton informs Addams that they still seek a director for the Starr Centre.

Jobs Requests Settlements

Speech to the League for Political Education, March 29, 1902 (excerpt)

A summary of Addams's speech on saloons before the League for Political Education in New York argues for limiting, not stopping, the sale of liquor.

Samuel Milton Jones to Jane Addams, March 31, 1902

Jones writes Addams about her request for a gas engine, adding that he hopes to see her soon.

Hull-House Requests

Sophia Engel Van Dine to Jane Addams, April 16, 1902

Van Dine writes Addams about her experiences with the asylum for feeble-minded children, particularly detailing its political difficulties, and asks for advice about creating a civil service position for the institution.

Children Medicine Politics Requests

Samuel Milton Jones to Jane Addams, April 25, 1902

Jones invites Addams to speak at Golden Rule Park and talks about topics he finds interesting.

Lectures Requests

Stanley R. McCormick to Jane Addams, April 28, 1902

McCormick writes Addams about a chapter of her book, Democracy and Social Eithics, and detailing how he plans to use the concept on his ranch.

Books Business Industry Writings

Statement on Train Wreck, May 12, 1902

Addams reflects on the railroad crash she endured and gives her impressions of the General Federation of Women's Clubs meeting.

Conferences Health Transportation Travels

Samuel A. Barnett to Jane Addams, May 13, 1902

Barnett thanks Addams for sending a copy of her book, Democracy and Social Ethics.

Books Friends Writings

Statement on Child Labor at the Hull House Summer School, July 3, 1902

Addams discusses child labor, the topic of an upcoming lecture at the Summer School.

Child Labor Education Hull-House Lectures

Samuel Milton Jones to Jane Addams, August 15, 1902

Jones writes to Addams about his experience with simple living and his philosophical realizations.

Onsite Philosophy Politics Requests

Statement at the Negro Exposition, August 27, 1902 (excerpt)

Addams attends the Middle States and Mississippi Valley Negro Exposition and comments that in future the work of women will equal that of men.

African-Americans

Speech to the Hull-House Woman's Club on Old Chicago, September 17, 1902 (excerpts)

Addams tells stories of pioneers in Chicago that her father told her.

History Lectures

Speech to the American League of Civic Improvement, September, 24, 1902 (excerpt)

Addams discusses the education of immigrants

Education Immigrants Lectures

Speech to the League of Cook County Women's Clubs, November 15, 1902

Addams proposes changes to the child labor and compulsory education laws for endorsement to the League of Cook County Women's Clubs.

Child Labor Education Lectures

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Speech to the Cook County League of Women's Clubs, November 15, 1902 (excerpts)

Addams and De Bey urge Chicago clubwomen to visit factories to see the working conditions for children and discuss a measure that will make it more difficult to keep children out of school.

Child Labor Education Lectures Legislation

Speech to the Chicago Business Woman's Club, November 19, 1902 (excerpts)

Addams discusses woman's capacity for bad behavior and that women's philanthropy should be more active in areas like child labor.

Child Labor Lectures Philanthropy Woman Suffrage

Speech to Pilgrim Congregational Church, November 24, 1902 (excerpts)

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

Business Education Labor Lectures

Social Results of Charitable Effort, December 1, 1902

Addams discusses efforts made to reach the needy through settlement work. She delivered this speech at the annual meeting of the Associated Charities.

Charity Hull-House Lectures Social Work

Statement on Women Workers Marriages, December 6, 1902 (excerpt)

Addams weighs in on the idea that women who work in household service are more likely to marry more frequently and in better circumstance. This is part of a longer article.

Labor Marital Relations