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Series I: Minutes and Reports, 1905-1955, undated, inclusive

reel: 1-5 (Material Type: Microform)
Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

This series contains the minutes of general membership meetings, (usually held once a month except for July and August), minutes of meetings of the executive board (held once or twice a month), and monthly reports on the League's work, usually by the secretary but occasionally by the president. Other items included are minutes of the strike council, beginning in December 1910, reports of League committees on organization, legislation, and other matters, monthly reports of the League's organizer, and occasional annual reports of one or more of the officers.

The series has a few gaps; scheduled meetings were sometimes omitted and occasional minutes and secretary's reports appear to be missing. The minutes of the League's annual meeting, held in March and devoted to annual reports and to election officers for the comming year, do not appear in the files until 1920. The minutes and reports reconstruct much of its day-to-day activity: its attempts to make contact with working women, its organizing efforts in various trades, its relations with local trade unions and the labor movement generally, and its legislative work. The executive board minutes are useful for recording changes in the League's ideology and priorities.

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