https://digitalcollections.eku.edu/files/original/70b00ddc9cade7a0c89a5f73ae8b842b.pdf b4cc42c6354ebf63da61c923f2f3bb72 PDF Text Text A look at Chicago's past / By June Sawyers Chicago's Jane Addams with some of her young charges of the 1920s. in 1892, when her staff, shocked by conditions they, saw in clothing-industry sweatshops, urged . the passage of factory and child-labor legislation. When the state a year, later passed a law forbidding the employment of children under 14 and limiting women to an 8-hour workday, Addams and her cohorts were branded as radicals. • Manufacturers, many of whom relied on cheap immigrant labor, denounced the law, calling it the way to ruin and a threat to the very foundation of o immigrants, children and the the free-enterprise system. Said one unhappy busipoor, she was a friend. But to nessman, "Jane Addams ought to be hanged to many newspaper editors, ward the nearest lamppost." [Two years later, in 1895, bosses and businessmen, she was the law was declared unconstitutional by the Illithe enemy. Jane Addams is now nois Supreme Court], generally revered as the pioneerAddams served as labor arbitrator in the 1894 ing social worker who founded Pullman strike, the 1905 teamsters strike and the Hull House and the Women's International 1910 garment-workers strike. Her pro-union League for Peace and Freedom, wrote 12 books stance in these and other assignments prompted and hundreds of articles, received 14 honorary deone merchant to write in 1916 that Hull House grees and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931. But "has been so thoroughly unionized that it has lost in her day she was regarded by many as "the most its usefulness and has become a detriment to the dangerous woman in America.'' community as a whole." Hull House was a haven for unpopular Neighbors were suspicious, too, of her settlemovements and new ideas. Modeled after Toynment house, especially in its infant days. Located bee Hall in the Whitechapel district of London, in a dilapidated Near West Side area of crowded Chicago's first settlement house, or community tenements, unpaved alleys and side streets and welfare center, welcomed the nonconformist and small family-run shops, the house was surrounded the eccentric, the revolutionary and the radical by as many as 19 different immigrant groups, along with the poor and the outcast of society. among them Italians, Germans, Poles, Russian English socialists Sidney and Beatrice Webb and Jews, Irish and French-Canadians. Most lived novelist H.G. Wells visited, architect Frank Lloyd there not by choice but only because they had to; Wright lectured and educator John Dewey disso why, they asked, did this strange woman cussed Greek philosophy. In such a heady atchoose to settle among them in that blighted mosphere, Hull House was an easy target for neighborhood? those who saw visions of communist conspiracies. It was Addams' pacifism, however, that aroused Denounced as a "hotbed of anarchism," it was at the most malicious criticisms. When she traveled one time called the key link in an elaborate netduring World War I to The Hague in the Netherwork of "red" subversives. lands to urge world leaders to end hostilities through arbitration, she was quickly ridiculed for Although no arrests were ever made at Hull her idealism and naivete. Newspapers across the . House, police were often assigned to keep an eye country launched bitter attacks against her. At" on its meetings. One night when a group of immione point several members of the American grants were passionately discussing political theoLegion labeled her "pro-German." Others conry, a club-twirling police officer reprimanded residemned her as a pacifist traitor. dent Alice Hamilton: "Lady, you people oughtn't to let bums like these come here. If I had my way, Jane Addams, who died in 1935, certainly felt they'd all be lined up against a wall at sunrise and much pain from these attacks on herself and her shot" work. But her critics have long been silenced, their opposition an almost-forgotten aspect of her Staffers became wary of newspaper reporters, life. Today the Hull House Museum, at 800 S.i who on the prowl for a "good story," would often Halsted St. on the University of Illinois at Chicatwist whatever they saw into something sensago campus, is an honored memorial to her work tional. and accomplishments on the urban frontier. • Bitter opposition against Addams first surfaced Jane Addams? Hang the traitor! many cried T v � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kadlec, Anna Papers Subject The topic of the resource Women social workers--United States. Addams, Jane, 1860-1935. Women social reformers--United States. Description An account of the resource Anna Kadlec spent her career in social work. She worked closely with individuals like Jane Addams in the Chicago settlement house movement to improve social conditions for impoverished communities. Afterwards, she went on to study the employment of women in Chicago meat packing plants and to work as a teacher at Model. <br /><br />Only a portion of this collection has been digitized. See the <a href="http://ekufindingaids.libraryhost.com/?p=collections/findingaid&amp;id=102&amp;q=">Finding Aid</a> for a description of the entire collection. 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