Noel (Frances) Papers, ca. 1900-1960

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Summary

Title:: Frances Noel Papers,
Dates:: ca. 1900-1960
Creators:: Noel, Frances
Abstract:: Frances Noel was born in Saxony, near the Bohemian border in 1873. She left home to travel the world in 1893 but finally settled in Los Angeles after marrying Primrose D. Noel in 1904. She played a very active role in the labor and women's movements in Los Angeles, California. The collection consists of correspondence, organizational materials, papers, pamphlets, clippings, and printed material reflecting her participation in causes for organized labor, birth control, women's suffrage, and environmental conservation. Significant correspondents include Alice Stone Blackwell, Carrie Chapman Catt, Samuel Gompers, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Katherine Philips Edson, John Francis Neylan, and Margaret Sanger.
Extent:: 11 boxes (5.5 linear ft.) 1 oversize box
Language:: English.
Preferred citation:: [Identification of item], Frances Noel Papers (Collection 814). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Background

Scope and content:

Collection consists of correspondence, organizational materials, papers, pamphlets, clippings, and printed material relating to Frances Noel's interest in the labor and women's movements in Los Angeles, California. Materials reflect her participation in causes for organized labor, birth control, women's suffrage, and environmental conservation. Collection arranged by subject and organizations, with correspondence separated and arranged chronologically. Significant correspondents include Alice Stone Blackwell, Carrie Chapman Catt, Samuel Gompers, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Katherine Philips Edson, John Francis Neylan, and Margaret Sanger.

Expanded Scope and Content

The papers and other printed material comprising the Frances Noel Collection, ca. 1910-1960, 11 boxes, pertain almost entirely to the many organizations in which she participated or with which she dealt in the multifaceted cause for organized labor in Los Angeles in the first half of the century. A vital interaction with the Women's Movement up to the 1930s is also represented by important materials pertaining to suffrage and birth control organizations. Mrs. Noel's interests also extended to human and environmental welfare, illustrated by the materials on social insurance in the 1920s and conservation activities later in her life. Many newspaper clippings depict the people and events of the times, particularly those of her husband's (Primrose D. Noel) labor press columns. And in addition, a particularly rich resource occurs in her correspondence which includes a few letters exchanged with other notable women such as Margaret Sanger, Katherine Phillips Edson and Mother Jones. Of particular interest is an interview taped with Mrs. Noel in 1952, also available in the Department of Special Collections, UCLA. (Collection 100, box 98)

Biographical / historical:

Frances Noel was born in Saxony, near the Bohemian border, 1873; left home to travel the world, 1893; married Primrose D. Noel and settled in Los Angeles, 1904; vice president, Women's Union Label League, California, 1910, and president, 1914; president, Wage Earner's Suffrage League, 1911; struggled to establish recreational camp for working women, Camp Aliso, 1918; chaired the Conference of Union Women of Southern California, 1921; established Women's Annex, Los Angeles Labor Union Temple, 1922; president, Los Angeles Chapter of the American Birth Control League, 1926; appointed to Executive Board of the Central Labor Council in California, fighting for minimum wage laws and eight hour working days; fought to preserve the Arroyo Seco area in Pasadena, California, 1920s; fought for public transportation improvements; date and circumstances of death unknown.

Biographical Narrative

At an early age, Frances Noel expressed the independent nature and pioneering spirit which were to characterize her struggles and lead to her achievements for the causes of labor and women's rights. Born in Saxony, near the Bohemian border in 1873, she left home at age 20 to see the world. Working variously as a governess, kindergarten teacher and waitress, she travelled to New York, Chicago and Denver where the early fight for woman suffrage in Colorado left a strong impression upon her. Travels also took her to California where, deeply interested in the principles of socialism, she attended meetings of the Socialist Party in Los Angeles and San Francisco in the late 1890s. During several subsequent trips back to the eastern United States and Europe, she continued to make important contacts with other socialist groups and leaders.

In 1904 she returned to Los Angeles to marry Primrose (Primm) D. Noel who became a noted columnist for labor news publications and an active member of the American Civil Liberties Union until his death in 1943. At one point, Primrose D. Noel's career was associated with banking, and was abruptly interrupted due to his wife's socialist activities. He was fired and became an insurance broker, a business taken over by Frances after his death.

As a result of her own office workers union membership and a large and growing concern for the interests of working people, Frances Noel became vice president of the Women's Union Label League in California in 1910, and was in 1914, president of the Women's Trade Union League in Los Angeles. As a proponent of the rights of women workers, she joined the Woman Suffrage Movement and became president of the Wage Earner's Suffrage League in 1911. And as a proponent of their welfare in the fullest sense of the word, she struggled to establish a recreational camp for working women, Camp Aliso, in the San Dimas Canyon, California in 1918.

Eventually, counterproductive political conflicts, which were brewing in the Social Party over alliances with labor, led to Frances Noel's separation from the Socialist Movement. However, in spite of this, and other kinds of factional disputes within the Women's Movement, her career continued to reflect a commitment to the well-being of all working people. She was instrumental in promoting numerous meetings and organizations, effectively unifying people in common cause. Notably, she organized and chaired the Conference of Union Women of Southern California in 1921, and was largely responsible for establishing the Women's Annex to the Los Angeles Labor Union Temple in 1922.

By contributing to the Women's City Club of Los Angeles, she developed the alliance of many women's groups in addition to those which were labor-oriented, and her involvement with the Birth Control Movement was vital. In 1926, she was president of the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Birth Control League which also administered the health-oriented Mother's Clinic.

Frances Noel's impact as a social reformer was not limited by the concerns of women alone. Expressions of confidence in her were made on the part of many men as she was appointed to a number of forceful organizations, such as the Executive Board of the Central Labor Council in California. There, she was active in legislative concerns, and contributed to creation of the Humane Legislation League in 1911 which fought for minimum wage law and eight hour working days. In varying capacities, she participated in the Los Angeles Industrial Commission, and in 1916 became an active member of California's Social Insurance Commission, concerned with health, unemployment, maternal and retirement plans.

Mrs. Noel's dedication to principles of human welfare was localized within her community as well as expanded to the natural environment. She was a member of the City Council in Los Angeles in 1913 and a committee member associated with the City Planning Commission. Her work to preserve the Arroyo Seco area near her home in Pasadena, California, in the 1920s, was highly commended. She pursued issues pertaining to public ownership of utilities in the Municipal Light and Power Defense League, and became an ardent conservationist in her later years, belonging to such organizations as the Sierra Club and the Save the Redwoods League.

Frances Noel's dedication to public welfare continued to the last years of her life. It was well past her eighieth year when she was organizing her community in Highland Park, California to fight for safer access to public transportation. And, indeed, the Marmion Way bus stop was improved in 1957. The date and circumstances of her death are unknown at this time. It is fitting, though, that the last dated items of correspondence in the Frances Noel Collection pertain to the activities of organizations which are now taken for granted as foundations for the rights of working women.

[Compiled from papers of the Frances Noel Collection (814) and her recollections taped in an interview, 1952 (Collection 100 box 98)]

Arrangement:

Arranged in the following series:

The women's movement (Boxes 1-2).
Labor organizations, conferences, and concerns (Boxes 3-5).
Labor, women, political concerns, Primrose D. Noel and the Labor Press (Boxes 6-8).
Municipal, environmental, and miscellaneous concerns (Box 9).
Correspondence and personal ephemera (Boxes 10-11).
Southern California Labor Press (Box 12).
Los Angeles Times disaster of 1910 (Box 12).

Arrangement

To accurately reflect the goals and development of her many activities, the Frances Noel Collection is arranged primarily according to organizational bodies at the series level. The sequence of organizations reflects a very general chronology, or progressively related issues where the time frame has been obscured by overlapping activites in her life. Groups of administratively related organizations are arranged first by general materials or the national level of organization, progressing to local concerns, followed by specific issues or people, then to miscellaneous materials on the topic.

Within a given folder, papers have been arranged chronologically wherever practicable, as in the case of minutes or proceedings. Clippings are usually placed in separate folders to promote conservation and, in some instances, they are subdivided by personal or organizational subject matter.

The incoming and outgoing correspondence has been separated and arranged chronologically. Dates have been ascertained for originally undated items and marked in pencil. When specific dates were not determined, items are placed at the beginning of the applicable year or month. Mrs. Noel's correspondence reflects her pervasive involvement with labor and women's groups, therefore it is necessary to consult her letters for material relevant to the organizations represented elsewhere in the collection. This is particularly true in the case of her outgoing correspondence which has not been analyzed in the index.

Physical location:

Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Civic improvement--California--Los Angeles.
Birth control--California.
Women--Suffrage--California.
Women in the labor movement--California.
Labor laws and legislation--California.

Names:

League of Women Voters of California.
Noel, Frances--Archives.

Indexes:

PERSONAL NAME INDEX

Allan, Robert M.	April 11, 1922
Allen, S.W.	November 29, 1921
Altchuler, Lydia	April 15, 1930
Anderson, W.H.	April 14, 1937
Andrews, Gertrude Nelson	January 30, 1927
Arsdale, Henry van	February 21, 1918
Baldwin, Anita M.	March 4, 1916
Banta, Leona M.	various dates: October-December 1910; January-April, June, September 1911
Barry, Harriet H.	September 13, 1915
Barry, Helen	September 25, 1918
Bell, George L.	October 19, 1915; September 11, 1918
Bennett, C.M.	Box 4 Folder 18
Bent, Charles E.	April 28, 1922
Bixby, Fanny	April 15, 1916
Blackwell, Alice Stone	Box 1 Folders 1, 3
Blaney, Charles D.	March 23, 1916
Booth, W. H.	March 24, 1916
Boyd, Lelia Trundle and Homer	April 9, 1956
Brainerd, H.G.	July 15, 1926
Bremmer, Edna	August 6, 1952; July 2, 1954; July 7, 1954; June 12, 1957; November 23, 1957
Bryant, Carrie Parsons	May 2, 1929
Burns, George G.	June 14, 1922
Bush, Alfred	July 3, 1919
Buskirk, Guy van	January 5, 1928
Butler, L.W.	June 13, 1912
Butler, Sidney A.	April 19, 1916
Campbell, Kemper B.	October 28, 1914
Carr, Gloria W.	1917
Catt, Carrie Chapman	Box 1 Folder 13
Champlin, Bertha	September 22, 1921
Charlton, R.H.	December 16, 1922
Clark, William L.	July 15, 1918; July 30, 1918; Box 5 Folder 11
Coffin, Lillian Harris	September 1909
Cooley, Norma	April 1939
Cornell, Charles T.	March 26, 1917
Corwin, Della owell	January 6, 1932
Craig, Mrs. R.L.	September 27, 1918
Crellar, Mrs. A.W.	October 25, 1921
Davis, Ruth	January 15, 1938
Deeds, Elsie	April 17, 1911
Dennett, Mary Ware	Box 2 Folder 7
(Dial), Hilda	September 4, 1918
Doheny, Mrs.	March 1, 1916
Dorris, Grace	September 16, 1922; January 29, 1923; February 18, 1923;Box 6 Folder 13
Downey, Sheridan	May 29, 1942
Downing, Agnes H.	November 15, 1923; June 27, 1935;Box 6 Folder 11
Drake, Francis	October 27, 1922
Drew, Walter	1913
Drexel, Violet	November 12, 1962
Drury, Newton B.	March 8, 1928
Edson, Katherine Philips	1915; September 26, 1917; November 6, 1922; Box 1 Folder 6; Box 5 Folder 12; Box 6 Folder 12
Eliot, Thomas D.	Box 2 Folder 12
Ely, Frederick W.	June 7, 1923
Engle, Mary C.	July 14, 1912
Essick, Newman	June 19, 1916; August 25, 1916; September 29, 1916
Felton, Katherine C.	December 29, 1914; January 4, 1915; April 9, 1915; September 23, 1915; October 5, 1915; October 20, 1915; January 3, 1916
Feningston, Barbara	May 21, 1928
Findlay, Bruce	May 29, 1908
Fink, Grove J.	February 25, 1915; March 3, 1916
Fitch, O.B.	July 13, 1921
Flint, F.W.	March 16, 1916
Franklin, S.M.	December 3, 1914; May 22, 1915
Freiley, Maude E.	August 30, 1921; September 24, 1921; November 21, 1921; November 22, 1921
French, Will J.	February 9, 1915; September 25, 1922; October 4, 1922; March 12, 1918
Frey, John P.	January 12, 1916; April 10, 1916
Frost, Freda E.	June 3, 1929
Fuller, Zoe B.	April 11, 1919
Gallert, Myra P.	April 29, 1926; June 29, 1926
Gartz, Kate Crane	Box 7 Folder 8
George, Carrie E.	January 13, 1928
Gibson, John S.	May 9, 1956
Gibson, Mary S.	1918
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins	Box 1 Folder 15
Gompers, Samuel W.	Box 3 Folder 4. August 7, 1915; September-October 1915; Box 4 Folder 3; Box 4 Folder 9; Box 6 Folder 6
Graves, Niram A.	July 7, 1919
Griffith, Van M.	August 5, 1943
Grimes, Barbara Nachtrieb	1916; March 15, 1916; August 1, 1917; September 17, 1918
Gross, Mrs. H.O.	May 31, 1922; June 15, 1922
Gunnison, Charles	October 1914
Hagan, Sarah S.	September 28, 1922
Hail, Mrs. J.D. (?)	September 23, 1922
Hanau, Stella	December 24, 1928
Hared, Este e E.	May 10, 1922; August 24, 1922
Hattie	May 22, 1922
Haynes, Dora	May 9, 1922
Haynes, Dr. John R.	Box 9 Folder 3
Henry, Alice	December 13, 1912; January 16, 1913; Box 6 Folder 13
Herriot, Paul	January 10, 1916
Hicks, Tululoo	October 24, 1916
Hodges, C.S.	August 19, 1911
Hoffman, Beatrice	March 1, 1916
Holland, John C.	August 15, 1949; September 26, 1956
Holmes, E.A.	August 30, 1922
Hornbeck, Charles	February 19, 1914; July 10, 1914; August 19, 1914; December 23, 1914
Houck, Daisy	July 15, 1916
Houser, Sara Wilde	August 18, 1930
How, Herminia	April 22, 1911
Hural, Fania	1926
Huse, P.B.P.	March 2, 1927; April 4, 1927; April 29, 1927
Jackman, Mrs. J.P.	January 24, 1923
Johnson, Hiram	February 12, 1917; Box 5 Folder 1
Johnson, Jeanette	September 28, 1921; October 24, 1921; October 29, 1921
Jones, Eleanor Dwight(Mrs. F. Robertson)	May 27, 1929
Jones, Mother Mary Harris	November 23, 1923; Box 6 Folder 12
Kelly, J.W.	March 5, 1922
Kennedy, Helen T.	March 6, 1918
Kirivin(?), Dora Louise	May 19, 1922
Knight, Helen M.	May 14, 1915; May 1, 1916
Kris (?), Mary Holland	October 10, 1922
Kurt, Irma, Anita and Wolfgang	December 15, 1958
LaRue, Louise	July 16, 1911
Lachuria, Doris	November 22, 1922
Lamb, Charles J.	December 20, 1917; December 26, 1917; May 21, 1918
Lane, Fulton	March 31, 1915; June 11, 1915; September 22, 1915
Langmuir, Charles H.	May 17, 1916
Leach, R.H.	September 1916
Leiserson, William M.	May 2, 1918
Lee, Bing and George K.	June 15, 1918
Lewis, L. Morrow	May 10, 1913
Lim, Shirley	Box 11 Folder 4
Lissner, Meyer	February 15, 1916
Loomis, Grace	February 5, 1939
Lovejoy, Dr. Esther Pohl	September 30, 1915
MacDonald, F.C.	September 21, 1922; March 16, 1923
McCoy, Mrs. R.W.	January 1, 1927
McGaughey	September 25, 1911
Maley, Anna A.	Box 7 Folder 2
Malis, Mrs. Martin W.	June 14, 1961
Manly, Basil M.	November 4, 1914
Martin, Ann	July 5, 1929; August 18, 1929; August 30, 1929
Matlock, Mrs. S.	July 2, 1923
Melnikow, Henry P.	October 12, 1922
Mohler, Charles K.	April 14, 1920
Monroe, Charles	April 18, 1916
Moore, Florence G.	April 21, 1916
Morgan, Miss	April 19, 1916
Mott-Smith, Pose Conrad	June 11, 1929
Moody, George	November 24, 1917
Murphy, Daniel C.	Box 5 Folder 3
Myers, Louis W.	April 25, 1916
Nachtrieb, Barbara	See Grimes, Barbara N.
Neally, E.M.	October 18, 1918
Nestor, Agnes	February 4, 1916; February 23, 1916; Box 6 Folder 13
Newton, Elsie D.	June 12, 1934
Neylan, John Francis	January 2, 1915; January 9, 1915; February 25, 1915; October 25, 1915; November 1, 1915; December 4, 1915; December 8, 1915
Noel, Primrose (Primm) D.	April 14, 1920; October 17, 1932; Box 7 Folder 8-12; Box 8 Folder 1-2
Nolan, Hannah A.	1913
Nolan, John I.	February 14, 1913;Box 1 Folder 8
Obenaver, Marie L.	July 31, 1916
Orr, Rezin	November 10, 1916
Oxnam, Bromley G.	February 15, 1922
Pankhurst, Sylvia	Box 1 Folder 14,16
Park, Alice	January 27, 1913
Peterson, Mrs. H.B.	October 10, 1921
Peterson, Walter C.	May 2, 1956; August 7, 1956
Pillsbury, A.J.	October 2, 1915;October 5, 1915
Pinkerton, Clarence J.	July 7, 1919
Polo, Kay	April 5, 1956
Prenter, William B.	January 25, 1915
Raitt, C.B.	February 9, 1918; November 22, 1921
Rising, Mrs. L.	January 11, 1921; September 21, 1921; October 14, 1921
Reusse (?), Mrs. E.	January 17, 1923
Robins, Margaret Drier (Mrs. Raymond)	July 19, 1915; May 25, 1916; July 24, 1916; October 9, 1916
Rolph, James Jr.	September 23, 1918;October 21, 1918
Romau, F.W.	Box 2 Folder 12
Roney, F.	February 4, 1922
Rowell, Chester H.	September 21, 1918; March 31, 1919; April 17, 1919;Box 5 Folder 1-3
Rubinow, I.M.	January 29, 1917; September 17, 1918; Box 5 Folder 7,8
Rudd, Donald	September 26, 1914
Rutan, Adelaide	November 19, 1921
Ryland, E.P.	October 17, 1932
Salz, Ansley	November 22, 1918
Samuels, Edith	October 9, 1922
Sanger, Margaret	August 18, 1928; January 10, 1929; January 22, 1930; Box 2 Folders 1-6,8,9,11
Scattergood, E.F.	August 12, 1921
Scharrenberg, Paul	February 11, 1919; September 23, 1922; October 19, 1922; June 1, 1923
Schmidt, Mathew A.	April 30, 1938; Box 6 Folder 5
Schreider, William	April 8, 1937
Scott(?), W.	February 15, 1940
Seckels, Alice	November 23, 1928
Severance, Catherine M.	July 26, 1911
Shaw, Anna H.	August 6, 1915
Shaw, C.M.	June 6, 1919
Sheele, Elizabeth B.	May 3, 1917
Simons, Grace C.	January 31, 1918; June 28, 1918
Smith, Mrs. L.H.	July 2, 1923
Socha, Mabel U.	November 17, 1924
Springer, Mrs. E.	June 2, 1914
Steghagen, Emma	February 14, 1916; September 18, 1918
Stephens, A.L.	April 1, 1915; April 16, 1915
Stickney, Gabrella	July 3, 1919
Storry, Ruth C.	January 13, 1911
Stowell, Betty	1950
Sullivan, Olive	October 9, 1916
Taft, Clinton J.	April 14, 1927; September 5, 1940
Tappau (?), Emily A.	1916
Taylor, Mildred	December 12, 1939
Thie, Francis (Mrs. Charles)	October 5, 1922; October 6, 1922
Timberlake	August 22, 1922
Vanderveen, Chris W.	May 21, 1922
Vosburg, Kate S.	December 6, 1916
Vose, C. Lisetta	March 22, 1916
Walls, William J.	September 17, 1922
Walsh, Frank P.	December 4, 1914
Warne, Clara Taylor	October 12, 1926
Wells, Nellie M.	July 13, 1921
Whitaker, Alma	April 25, 1927
Whitney, Charlotte Anita	May 8, 1915
Wilde, Charles L.	July 19, 1915; June 14, 1916
Williams, Ada M.	1921
Williams, T.W.	December 4, 1914
Williams, W.R.	September 19, 1929
Willis, Dorothy	1916
Workman, Mary J.	September 22, 1918; October 9, 1918; June 19, 1934; May 7, 1941
Wright, F.C.	March 23, 1916
Younger, Maud	August 19, 1911; January 4, 1913; January 21, 1915; Box 1 Folder 2,8

ORGANIZATION INDEX

Alameda County Birth Control League	July 5, 1929; August 18, 1929; August 30, 1929
American Birth Control League	March 2, 1927; April 4, 1927; April 29, 1927; August 18, 1928; 1929; January 10, 1929; May 27, 1929; Box 2 Folder 8See also The Birth Control Review.
American Civil Liberties Union	April 14, 1927; September 5/40; Box 7 Folder 8
American Federation of Labor	Box 4 Folder 3,9 See also Gompers, Samuel W.
American Medical Association Committee on Social Insurance	January 29, 1917; See also Rubinow, I.M.
Arroyo Seco Preservation and Beautification Subcommittee	See the City Planning Commission Subcommittee on..
Associated Charities, San Francisco	December 29, 1914; January 4, 1915; April 9, 1915; September 23, 1915; October 5, 1915; October 20, 1915
Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau	January 10, 1929
Birth Control Review	December 24, 1928; April 15, 1930; Box 2 Folder 3-6
Board of Education, Los Angeles	May 29, 1928; May 2, 1929
Board of Public Utilities, Los Angeles	March 31, 1915; June 11, 1915; September 22, 1915; April 14, 1920; Box 9 Folder 7
Bureau of Applied Economics, Philadelphia	July 31, 1916
Bureau of Education, Manila	May 19, 1922
Bureau of Light and Power, Los Angeles	August 12, 1921
California Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage	See Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage
California Equal Suffrage Association	See Equal Suffrage Association
California Federation of Women's Clubs	May 14, 1915; May 1, 1916
California Savings and Commercial Bank	June 19, 1916; August 25, 1916; September 29, 1916
California State Board of Control	See State Board of Control
California State Building Trades Council	See State Building Trades Council
California State Commission of Immigration and Housing	See Commission of Immigration and Housing
California State Commission to Investigate Old Age Insurance and Pensions, and Mother's Pensions	See Commission to Investigate Old Age Insurance and..
California State Federation of Labor	September 23, 1922; October 19, 1922; June 1, 1923; Box 4 Folder 4-5 See also Box 1 Folder 8; Box 5 Folder 3
California State Industrial Welfare Commission	See Industrial Welfare Commission
California State Legislature	April 11, 1919; September 16, 1922; January 29, 1923; February 18, 1923
California State Parks Council	March 8, 1928
California State Social Insurance Commission	See Social Insurance Commission
California Women's Committee of Councils of National and State Defense	September 26, 1917; January 31, 1918; June 28, 1918; Box 5 Folder 12
Camp Aliso for Working Women	Various dates January-April, 1916; Box 3 Folder 14-15; Box 4 Folder 1-2
Camp Duquesne	See Camp Aliso
Central Labor Council of Los Angeles	June 13, 1912; Box 4 Folder 6-9; See also Box 1 Folder 7, 10
Central Labor Union of Southern California	August 30, 1921; September 24, 1921
Church of All Nations	February 15, 1922
City Council, Los Angeles	July 19, 1915; March 23, 1916; June 24, 1916; August 15, 1949; May 2, 1956; May 9, 1956; August 7, 1956; September 26, 1956
City Council Public Welfare Committee, Los Angeles	April 11, 1922
City Planning Commission, Los Angeles	May 21, 1928; Box 9 Folder 1; See also Box 1 Folder 9
City Planning Commission Subcommittee on Preservation and Beautification of Arroyo Seco	Box 9 Folder 5-6; See also City Council Public Welfare Committee and June 14, 1922
Commission of Immigration and Housing	October 19, 1915; February 11, 1919
Commission on Industrial Relations	See Industrial Relations Commission
Commission to Investigate Old Age Insurance and Pensions, and Mother's Pensions	January 2, 1915; January 9, 1915; February 25, 1915; May 9, 1915; May 10, 1915; January 10, 1916; March 31, 1919; April 17, 1919; September 21, 1918; Box 5 Folder 9-10
Commonwealth Club of San Francisco Committee on Social Insurance	Box 5 Folder 7-8
Conference of Trade Union Women of Southern California	Box 4 Folder 13-17
Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage	Box 1 Folder 3
Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, California	May 8, 1915
Convention of Women Voters	Box 1 Folder 4
Equal Suffrage Association, California	September 1909; Box 1 Folder 5
First National Bank, Gilroy, California	February 19, 1914; July 10, 1914; August 19, 1914; December 23, 1914
Forest Service, Angeles National Forest	September, 1916; November 29, 1921; December 6, 1922
Free Employment Bureau	See Public Employment Bureau, Los Angeles
Household Employees Council	December 12, 1939
Humane Legislation League	Box 1 Folder 8
Immigration and Housing Commission	October 19, 1915; February 11, 1919
Immigration Service, United States Department of Labor	March 26, 1917
Industrial Accident Commission	February 9, 1915; October 2, 1915; October 5, 1915; March 12, 1918; September 25, 1922; October 4, 1922
Industrial Commission	Box 6 Folder 2
Industrial Relations Commission	November 4, 1914; December 4, 1914;Box 6 Folder 2
Industrial Welfare Commission, California	1915; November 6, 1922
Illinois State Federation of Labor	November 23, 1923
International Institute Service Agency for Foreign Communities	June 12, 1934
International Molders Journal	January 12, 1916; April 10, 1916
International Women's Union Label League	See Women's International Union Label League
John Dewey Student Unit League for Independent Political Action	May 28, 1934
Labor Bureau, San Francisco	October 12, 1922
Labor Council, San Francisco	February 14, 1913; See also Humane Legislation League
Labor Temple Association	See Union Labor Temple Association
League of Women Voters	Box 1 Folder 9
League of Women Voters, California	Box 1 Folder 10
League of Women Voters, Los Angeles	June 14, 1961; Box 1 Folder 11-12; See also Box 9 Folder 1 and Convention of Women Voters
Legal Department, Los Angeles	April 1, 1915; April 16, 1915
Los Angeles Times	April 25, 1927; April 30, 1938; Box 6 Folder 5
Los Angeles Public Library	March 6, 1918
Loyal Americans of German Descent	June 27, 1904; Box 7 Folder 7
Methodist Brotherhood	October 1914
Mother's Clinic Association, Los Angeles	July 15, 1926; October 12, 1926; March 12, 1929; June 3, 1929; Box 2 Folder 11
Mother's Health Clinic	See Mother's Clinic Association
Mother's Pension Commission	See Commission to Investigate Old Age Insurance and Pensions, and Mother's Pension
Municipal Industrial Commission, Los Angeles	July 15, 1918; July 30, 1918; Box 5 Folder 11; Box 6 Folder 2
Municipal League, Los Angeles	Box 9 Folder 2See also Social Welfare Committee
Municipal Light and Power Defense League	June 19, 1934; April 8, 1937; April 14, 1937; May 7, 1941; Box 9 Folder 3
National American Woman Suffrage Association	January 27, 1913; August 6, 1915; Box 1 Folder 1
National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control	Box 2 Folder 1,2
National Council for the Protection of Foreign Born Workers	Box 5 Folder 13
National Council of Women Voters	See League of Women Voters
National Women's Party	January 4, 1913; January 21, 1915; Box 1 Folder 2; See also Humane Legislation League
National Women's Trade Union League	February 4, 1916; February 14, 1916; May 25, 1916; July 24, 1916; 1917; September 18, 1918; Box 3 Folder 3-6; See also Box 1 Folder 15
National Women's Trade Union League, Chicago	December 13, 1912; January 16, 1913; December 3, 1901; May 25, 1915; July 19, 1915; Box 3 Folder 7-9
National Women's Trade Union League, Los Angeles	July 15, 1916; Box 3 Folder 10-12;See also Camp Aliso for Working Women
New York Life Insurance Co.	May 17, 1916
The News Advocate	September 25, 1911
Organized Labor Publishing Co.	June 7, 1923
Organized Women's Conference of Los Angeles County	See Conference of Trade Union Women
Pearson for U.S. Senator Women's Committee	October 10, 1922
Playground Department, Los Angeles	December 20, 1917; December 26, 1917; February 9, 1918; May 21, 1918; November 22, 1921; See also Camp Aliso for Working Women
Police Commission, Los Angeles	August 5, 1943
Political Equality League	Box 1 Folder 6
Progressive County Central Committee of Los Angeles County	October 28, 1914
Public Employment Bureau, Los Angeles	July 15, 1918; July 30, 1918; Box 5 Folder 11
Public Health Department, San Francisco	1913
Public Utilities Board	See Board of Public Utilities
Public Welfare Committee, Los Angeles	See City Council Public Welfare Committee
Recreation League for Wage Earning Women, Los Angeles	Box 3 Folder 13; See also Camp Aliso for Working Women
San Francisco Associated Charities	See Associated Charities
San Francisco Labor Bureau	See Labor Bureau
San Francisco Labor Council	See Labor Council
Seckels Lecture Bureau	November 23, 1928
Social Insurance Commission	Various dates September-December, 1915; 1916; March 15, 1916; February 12, 1917; August 1, 1917; January 7, 1918; February 21, 1918; June 15, 1918; various dates September-November, 1918; March 31, 1919; April 17, 1919; See also American Medical Association Committee on Social Insurance; See also Commission to Investigate Old Age Insurance and Pensions; Box 5 Folder 1-2; See also Box 5 Folder 3-10
Social Welfare Committee, Municipal League, Los Angeles	Box 5 Folder 13
Socialist Party	Box 7 Folder 2
Socialist Party, California	December 4, 1914
Socialist Party, Los Angeles	July 3, 1919
State Board of Control, California	January 2, 1915; January 9, 1915; February 25, 1915; September 18, 1915; October 25, 1915; November 1, 1915; December 4, 1915; December 8, 1915; March 3, 1916
State Building Trades Council	September 21, 1922; March 16, 1923
State Council of Defense for California, Women's Committee	Box 5 Folder 12See also California Women's Committee of Councils of National and State Defense
State Health Insurance	See Social Insurance
Taft Control Labor Union, Ladies Auxiliary	January 22, 1922
Times Mirror Printing and Binding House	January 28, 1929
Toledo University, Municipal Research and Reference Division	May 2, 1929
Trade Unions	See page 37 for references
Travelers Insurance Company	April 28, 1922
Union Labor Temple Association	November 24, 1917; October 27, 1922; Box 4 Folder 20; See also Women's Annex
Unions	See Trade Unions
United States Commission on Industrial Relations	See Industrial Relations Commissions
United States Commission on Industrial Relations	See Industrial Relations Commission
United States Department of Agriculture	See Forest Service
United States Department of Labor	September 11, 1918; September 25, 1918; See also Immigration Service
United States Employment Service, Department of Labor	July 30, 1918
Voluntary Parenthood League	April 29, 1926; June 29, 1926; Box 2 Folder 7
Wage Earner's Suffrage League	July 16, 1911; August 19, 1911; Box 1 Folder 7
Western Union Telegraph Company	September 19, 1929
Wilson Hughes Campaign	Box 7 Folder 1
Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Southern California	July 3, 1919
Women's Annex of the Los Angeles Labor Temple	Box 4 Folder 18-19
Women's Central Committee of Organized Labor, Los Angeles	Box 4 Folder 10-11; January 1, 1927l; See also Box 6 Folder 8,9
Women's City Club of Long Beach	January 22, 1917
Women's City Club of Los Angeles	See Box 6 Folder 15
Women's Club of Santa Barbara	October 1911; April 4, 1912
Women's Conference, Los Angeles County	Box 4 Folder 12
Women's Health Center Association, Los Angeles	Box 2 Folder 10
Women's International Union Label League, California	Various dates October-December, 1910; Various dates January-April, June, September 1911; July 14, 1912; 1921; July 13, 1921; October 10, 1921; November 19, 1921; November 21, 1921; November 1921; August 30, 1922; September 23, 1922; August 6, 1952; July 2, 1954; July 27, 1954; June 21, 1957; November 23, 1957; November 12, 1962; See also Unions and Box 1 Folder 14; Box 3 Folder 1-2
Women's Trade Union League	See National Women's Trade Union League
Women's Union Label League	See Women's International Union Label League

Trade Unions

Carpenter's Local Union 80 Ladies Auxiliary	January 17, 1923; January 24, 1923
Germent Workers Union 50 Ladies Auxiliary	October 9, 1922
Lithographers, Amalgamated	May 21, 1922
Lithographers, Amalgamated, Ladies Auxiliary	May 31, 1922; June 15, 1922
Locomotive Engineers Brotherhood Pension Association	January 25, 1915
Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, Ladies Society	September 22, 1921
Mechanists, International Association	March 5, 1922
Machinists, International Association, Ladies Auxiliary	May 10, 1922; August 24, 1922
Moving Picture and Projecting achine Operators Union	September 26, 1914
Oil Field, Gas Well and Refinery Workers, Ladies Auxiliary	July 2, 1923
Painters, Decorators and Paper Hangers	August 22, 1922
Printing, Pressmen and Assistants 78	September 7, 1922
Railroad Trainmen, Ladies Auxiliary	July 13, 1921
Retail Clerks, International Protective Association	January 11, 1921; September 21, 1921; October 14, 1921
Stenographers, Typists, Bookkeepers Union	January 15, 1938
Street and Electric Railway Employees	November 10, 1916
Upholsterers and Trimmers International Union	June 6, 1919

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