USA HISTORY

RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877

WOMENS SUFFRAGE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What does WTUL stand for?
A
No absolute idea
B
Walmart, Target, Urban Outfitters, and Lowes
C
Women’s Trade Union League
D
Women’s Tariff Union League
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1903, unionism and feminism came together in the Women’s Trade Union League (WTUL).

Detailed explanation-2: -Women’s Trade Union League (WTUL), American organization, the first national association dedicated to organizing women workers. Founded in 1903, the WTUL proved remarkably successful in uniting women from all classes to work toward better, fairer working conditions.

Detailed explanation-3: -Founded in 1903 by Jane Addams, Mary Anderson and other trade unionists, the Women’s Trade Union League (WTUL) devoted itself to securing better occupational conditions for women and encouraging women to join the labor movement.

Detailed explanation-4: -Women’s Trade Union League badge, 1919 carrying the League’s motto ‘Lose not those things that we have wrought’. The badge also has initials of the League’s leaders, Emma Paterson and Lady Emilia Francis Strong Dilke.

Detailed explanation-5: -It was here that the organization was created, with its first president being Mary Morton Kehew, a labor and social reformer from Boston, and vice president Jane Addams of Chicago’s Hull House.

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