By Amy E. Butler
ISBN-10: 0585473196
ISBN-13: 9780585473192
ISBN-10: 0791453197
ISBN-13: 9780791453193
A complete examine the period debates of the 1920's.
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32 Smith, of course, complied with Catt’s request, but at the same time she stepped up her activism in the labor movement. Smith’s increasing participation in the labor movement marked a pivotal moment in her life, creating the opportunity for her to combine her ¤eld organizing, lobbying, and media talents with her personal politics. Though she remained devoted to the suffrage movement, she chose to join forces with labor unions and organizations that promoted collective action to educate and unite working men and women.
As Smith articulated the link between the interests of suffragists and women workers, she lost sight of the proposed Nineteenth Amendment. NAWSA President Carrie Chapman Catt told Smith: I think a very great deal of the press work and perhaps all of it that has gone out concerning different phases of women’s work has been helpful, but I question very gravely the advantage of giving the impression that the National Association is “putting its ¤ngers in every possible pie” in Washington when nothing goes out about the Federal Amendment.
69 In one of her articles, Smith cited Agnes Nestor, chair of the WTUL’s Legislative Committee: Men who wipe machines in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing get better pay than the women who operate those machines. Men who carry the product of the machines from one place to another in the building receive more than the women who work those machines. 71 To achieve that goal, however, Smith recognized that women needed to unite to demand to be recognized as competent participants in the labor force.