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An article about an upcoming conference of employers and employees centered on discussion of the eight-hour workday.

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

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Addams asks Forbush for suggestions on neighborhood improvement for presentation at the National Council Charities and Corrections in Portland.

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Addams asks Treat for suggestions on neighborhood improvement for presentation at the National Council Charities and Corrections in Portland.

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Addams invites Robins to a conference of settlement folk.

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Addams gave this speech at the National Conference on Charities and Correction, reporting on the activities of the Committee on Neighborhood Improvement.

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Article summarizes and quotes from Addams' speech and comments on neighborhood improvement at the National Conference of Charities and Correction.

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Shaw writes Addams about the papers to be read at the municipal government conference.

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Addams encourages Wald and McDowell to attend the Peace Congress in Boston so that they can meet to discussion Women's Trade Union League matters.

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Addams describes events at the Universal Peace Conference and news of friends.

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Addams discusses the problem of inducing people to engage with the peace movement rather than following more nationalistic and warlike activities.

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Article describing the events of the women's meeting at the International Peace Congress in Boston that includes portions of speeches by Lucia Ames Mead, Mrs. W. P. Byles, Jane Addams, and Miss M. E. Dunhill.

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Addams gave this speech at a meeting of the National Child Labor Committee, held in New York City. In it she discussed the child labor reform work done in Chicago.

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At the inaugural conference of the Women's Trade Union League, held at the Berkeley Lyceum in New York, Addams argues that women workers should unionize to improve working conditions.

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Du Bois invites Addams to speak for twenty minutes at the Tenth Annual Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems.

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Addams declines Du Bois invitation to the Atlanta Conference on Negro Problems due to a glut of commencement speeches on her schedule.

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Addams thanks Dewey for the invitation to the Lake Placid conference, but she is unable to attend due to her heavy lecture schedule.

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Addams reports on efforts of women in creating exhibits that discussed British efforts to provide adequate housing for impoverished families.

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Addams reports on efforts of women in creating exhibits that discussed social economy compared to the Paris Exhibition in 1900.

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Addams' argues that child labor is the greatest social ill in remarks at the American Humane Association Convention on November 14, 1906. This version was published in December.

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Addams asks Woods if he can attend a truancy conference in Chicago and to persuade Joseph Lee to reconsider.

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Addams telegrams Lee to reconsider attending the truancy conference in Chicago

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Addams thanks Wald for her hospitality, complains of the great amount of work she is doing, and hopes Wald can speak at the truancy conference.

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Addams telegrams Wald that she has put her on the program of the truancy conference and asks her to come for a few days.

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Addams thanks Wald for her contributions to the Truancy Conference and encloses a check to cover expenses. She remarks on Washington and Cincinnati trips.

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Addams asks Blaine for her cooperation on a committee to plan an Industrial Exhibit.

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Addams asks Nestor to be a part of a committee for an Industrial Exhibit in Chicago.

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Gannett invites Addams to the National Women's Suffrage Association meeting in February.

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A newspaper report and excerpts from Addams' February 17 speech at the National Suffrage Convention, after the defeat of municipal suffrage for women in Chicago.

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Addams introduces the Chicago Industrial Exhibit's goals and content for publication in its Handbook.

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Addams' speech to the first National Arbitration and Peace Congress of America, given in New York at an evening session at Carnegie Hall. Addams discusses a rejection of warfare and military might as the only means to display patriotism, suggesting instead that people look for examples in industrial progress. The speech was published in the Congress Proceedings.

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Addams' speech to the first National Arbitration and Peace Congress of America, given in New York at an evening session at Carnegie Hall. Addams discusses a rejection of warfare and military might as the only means to display patriotism, suggesting instead that people look for examples in industrial progress. The speech was published in the Congress Proceedings, and later edited by hand.

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Addams' second speech at the National Arbitration and Peace Congress, given at the University Session. The speech discusses changes in society that make the ground fruitful for peace movements. The speech was published in the conference proceedings.

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Stenographic transcription of Addams' speech to the National Arbitration and Peace Congress in New York City. Addams discusses a rejection of warfare and military might as the only way of displaying patriotism, suggesting instead that we seek examples in industrial progress.

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A stenographic transcription of Addams' second speech at the National Arbitration and Peace Congress, given at the University Session in which she argues that the moment for peace activism is here and can best be led from America.

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Addams's speech to the American Hospital Association meeting, held in Chicago on September 17, 1907 was later published in the organization's journal. In her talk Addams discusses prejudice against the poor in hospitals and their reluctance to seek care from hospitals.

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King invites Addams to speak at the Religious Education Association in Washington, DC.

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Addams was one of six people who commented on John R. Commons' paper at the American Sociological Society meeting in Madison, Wisconsin, in December 1907. Addams' comments were published in the proceedings.

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Fisher writes about the upcoming conference of State and Territorial Boards of Public Health to discuss pending Senate and House bills affecting public health.

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Osgood encloses some credentials for Addams' signature.

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Addams certifies that Maud Nathan represents the American Association for Labor Legislation at the upcoming conference.

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Du Bois discusses arrangements for Addams' participation in the Conference for the Study of Negro Problems in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Addams declines Du Bois' offer to stay at Atlanta University due to a prior engagement.

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Osgood invites Addams to speak at the Chicago meeting of the American Association of Labor Legislation and asks for a meeting beforehand.

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Addams provides Straus with information on the Committee on Immigrants program coming up at the Conference of Charities and Correction.

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Table of contents and page with the membership of the Committees on immigrants, press and publicity, and state corresponding secretaries.

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Addams discusses a previous study on newsboys and argues that there are no child labor laws that protect them. These comments were made at the National Child Labor Committee annual meeting in January 1909.

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Addams compares the United States' treatment of women and children in labor to the ways of European countries. This speech was given at public meeting associated with the Conference on the Care of Dependent Children, in Washington, D.C. on January 25, 1909.

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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 discusses the nature of the peace movement and the key players within it before the Chicago Association of Commerce.

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