Convention Songs, 1919.
[Labor]. Convention Songs. Seventh Biennial Convention, Philadelphia, June 2 to 9, 1919. Chicago: National Women’s Trade Union of America, 1919.
8vo.; wrappers; fine.
First edition of this rare collection of labor rally songs, published by the National Women’s Trade Union League of America expressly for their Seventh Biennial Convention.
The NWTUL, recognized for their motto “The Eight-hour Day; A living Wage; to Guard the Home” was established in 1903, by Mary Kenney O’sullivan, for the purpose of unifying industrial women in order to improve working condition and raise wages. The League also extended its membership to non-working woman who advocated the establishment of trade unions. These women, or allies, as the league named them, because of their financial and personal contributions, were for the most part educated and they assumed responsible for speaking publicly and educating worker-members for leadership.
Their first convention, which the Seventh Biennial Convention commemorates, advocated six primary goals: equal pay for equal work, women’s suffrage, full unionization, the eight-hour day, a minimum wage, and the economic programs of the American Federation of Labor (AFL).
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