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Addams discusses the problems that charity workers face when they bring middle-class assumptions about the poor to their efforts to practically help them.
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Women argue against setting a weekly salary of $2,50 because it was not sufficient to health and well-being.
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Addams and Henrotin discuss the need to form a union for housewives at a meeting of the Chicago Workingwoman's Association.
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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.
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Addams discusses the condition of domestic servants with regard to introducing new industries in the home, the move for shorter hours, and collective housekeeping.
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Newspaper report of Addams' address to the South Side Woman's Club, dealing with how women can cope with the lack of servants by using prepared foods. The article was published under different headlines in multiple newspapers.
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A newspaper report that includes an excerpt from Addams' talk to the Hull-House Woman's Club on the object and history of the Women's Trade Union League.
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Addams discusses public reaction against trade-unions, strikes, and their activities.
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Excerpts from Addams' speech discussing conditions for individual women workers who seek to improve wages and working conditions.
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North discusses the availability of data on woman and child labor held by the Census Bureau and their efforts to compile it.
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Neill updates Breckinridge about the status of getting funding for the women's labor study, suggesting that Addams should testify before the Congressional Committee.
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Neill telegrams Breckinridge that he thinks it best to secure an appropriation for a study on women workers before created a detailed plan.
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Tawney confirms that he will consider a study of women's labor and appropriation authorization is approved.
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Allison offers to help with passing an appropriation for a study on women and labor, but notes that it must come from Charles McNeill at the Department of Commerce and Labor.
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Lodge agrees to assist Breckinridge with her study of women's labor.
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Breckinridge returns some materials about the lobbying for an investigation of working conditions for women and discusses the status of the work.
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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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The text of a bill authorizing the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to investigate and report upon the industrial, social, moral, educational, and physical conditions of women and child workers in the United States.
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Roosevelt informs Allison of the passage of a law to investigate and report on the conditions of working women and children in America.
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Robins writes Addams to apologize for the newspaper reports about the Women's Trade Union League pulling their meetings from Hull-House.
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Post informs Addams that the newspaper coverage of the Women's Trade Union League's decision to move their meetings from Bowen Hall at Hull-House to the Chicago Federation of Labor Hall was inaccurate and designed to cause hard feelings.
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An excerpt from Addams' March 22 speech at Faneuil Hall to the Boston Equal Suffrage Association and the Women's Trade Union League on the changes in women's work brought about by factory work.
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The Houston Post summarizes Addams' statesments on the need for public recreation for girls.
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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.