In the chapter on The Woman Organizer allusion is made to the efforts of the League to train women as trade-union organizers.  Miss Louisa Mittelstadt, of Kansas City, and Miss Myrtle Whitehead, of Baltimore, belonging to different branches of the Brewery Workers, came to Chicago to be trained in office and field work, and are now making good use of their experience.  One was sent by the central labor body, and the other by the local league.  Miss Fannie Colin was a third pupil, a member of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers, from New York City.

A word in conclusion regarding some of the typical leaders who are largely responsible for the policy of the League, and are to be credited in no small measure with its successes.

After Mrs. Raymond Robins, the national president, already spoken of, and standing beside her as a national figure comes Agnes Nestor, of Irish descent, and a native of Grand Rapids, Michigan, upon whose slight shoulders rest alike burdens and honors.  Both she bears calmly.  She is a glove-worker, and the only woman president of an international union.  She is both a member of the National Executive Board of the Women’s Trade Union League, and the president of the Chicago League, and she has served as one of the two women members of the Federal Commission on Industrial Education.  She has done fine work as a leader in her own city of Chicago, but neither Chicago, nor even Illinois, can claim her when the nation calls.

Melinda Scott is English by birth, belongs to New York, and has achieved remarkable results in her own union of the hat-trimmers.  It is not during the exciting stage of a perhaps spectacular strike that Miss Scott shines; it is during the weary time when only patience and endurance can hold the girls together, and afterwards, when, whether the strike is lost or won, enthusiasm is apt to flag, and when disputes bid fair to break down the hardly won agreement.

Initiated at sixteen into the Knights of Labor, Leonora O’Reilly took the vows that she has ever since kept in the spirit and in the letter.  After many years spent as a garment-worker, she became a teacher in the Manhattan Trade School for Girls.  She was one of the charter members of the New York Women’s Trade Union League and has always been one of its most effective speakers.  Leonora and her Celtic idealism have made many converts.

Russia in America is embodied in Rose Schneidermann.  She is the living representative of the gifts that the Slavic races, and especially the Russian Jew, have contributed to American life.  Coming here in childhood, her life has been spent in New York.

As an example of her achievements, for four years she worked untiringly among the white-goods-workers of New York, until they were strong enough to call a general strike, a strike which was so successful that they won a great part of their demands, and ever since have held their union together, seven thousand strong.  Penetrated with the profound sadness of her people, and passionately alive to the workers’ wrongs, Rose Schneidermann can stir immense audiences, and move them to tears as readily as to indignation.  For her all the hope of the world’s future is embodied in two movements, trade unionism on the one hand and socialism on the other.