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Sep 21, 2026
John GreenHOST
But while the passage of the 19th Amendment was a huge victory, Alice Paul and the National Women's Party were unable to muster the same support for an Equal Rights Amendment.
John GreenHOST
Paul believed that women needed equal access to education and employment opportunities, and here they came into contact with other women's groups, especially the League of Women Voters and the Women's Trade Union League, which opposed the ERA, fearing that equal rights would mean an unraveling of hard-won benefits like mothers' pensions and laws limiting women's hours of labor.
John GreenHOST
So the ERA failed, and then another proposed amendment that would have given Congress the power to limit child labor won ratification in only six states.
John GreenHOST
You go, America! So in many ways, the period between 1890 and 1920, which roughly corresponds to the Progressive Era, was the high tide of women's rights and political activism.
Annie Schneider ValeriGUEST
It was written in 1911 by James Oppenheim.
Annie Schneider ValeriGUEST
And the song came out of the phrase Bread for All and Roses Too, which was originally used by folks in the West, suffragists and Women's Trade Union League people.
Annie Schneider ValeriGUEST
it then became better known.
Annie Schneider ValeriGUEST
And Rose herself, people have thought that she had come up with the phrase, but she did not.
speaker_1HOST
Most of the workers were women, and many of their brothers in the labor movement had strong doubts about the efficacy of the strike.
speaker_1HOST
but it attracted the support of the Women's Trade Union League and many wealthy women's rights advocates.
speaker_1HOST
Among the latter group were Anne Morgan, daughter of our old friend J.P. Morgan, and our old friend Elva Vanderbilt, although she was now Elva Belmont, having divorced Willie Kay and then remarried.
speaker_1HOST
As they saw it, they could help these women get a better deal at work, and the working women could help them all get the right to vote.
David Conrad PérezGUEST
You know, the broader labor movement at the national level was not at all eager to support women workers, so they got little to no support from national union leaders.
David Conrad PérezGUEST
And then there were the wealthy socialites, the suffragists and the social reformers who joined the cause through the Women's Trade Union League.
David Conrad PérezGUEST
And I'd say this is a third big level of struggle for them.
David Conrad PérezGUEST
So many workers called these wealthy women the mink brigade because of the big furry mink coats that they would wear.
David Conrad PérezGUEST
They needed power and accountability and some kind of enforceable change.
David Conrad PérezGUEST
And in that moment, you know, everything changed.
David Conrad PérezGUEST
The Mink Brigade was furious, and so Rose and the other labor leaders were pushed out of the Women's Trade Union League completely.
David Conrad PérezGUEST
They were also blacklisted from the city's garment factories.
Gareth RussellHOST
Following behind them were the First Lady and the Queen.
Gareth RussellHOST
two years younger than her husband, Eleanor Roosevelt's time as First Lady had been overshadowed by sharp criticism of her from certain segments of American public opinion for her support for African American civil rights, and many on the American right distrusted the First Lady for her previous membership of the Women's Trade Union League.
Gareth RussellHOST
Herself, from a similar old-money background to her husband, they were in fact very distantly related, Eleanor was a resolutely political First Lady, who had spoken out against racial segregation in mining, which specifically targeted Black and Jewish miners, and in 1939 itself, she had resigned her membership from the Daughters of the American Revolution, after the organisation refused to allow Black contralto Marian Anderson to sing in its concert hall.
Gareth RussellHOST
Elizabeth, who had done her research, told Eleanor that she thought it odd that she had been criticised for meeting with workers to hear their grievances.