Rose Schneiderman

Rose Schneiderman (* as Rachel Schneiderman April 6, 1882 in Sawin, powiat Chełmski, Russian Empire; † August 11, 1972 in New York City ) was an American trade unionist.

Life

Youth and Family

Rachel Schneider Mann visited the school in 1888 in Chelm. 1890 the Jewish family emigrated to New York, where her father died in 1892 from meningitis. The later official of the American Jewish Committee Harry Schneiderman (1885-1975) was a brother. Already at 13 she had to go to work and help support the family of five.

Trade union activities

At age 21, the 1.37 m tall redhead organized at their work in a hat factory the accession of the workers to the Jewish, socialist union "United Cloth Hat and Cap Makers' Union " and began her career as a worker Representative. It was supported by middle-class women, among them Mary Dreier and Irene Lewisohn, and the " New York Women's Trade Union League " ( NYWTUL ). She was for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union ( ILGWU ) an organizer of the thirteen- week strike of 20,000 textile workers in New York 1909/1910. They have the demand for " bread and roses " stated (The woman worker needs bread, but she needs roses too ). In 1911, Schneiderman after the fire, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, in which 146 people died, the speech at the memorial service at the Metropolitan Opera. Schneiderman was a member of the Socialist Party of America (SPA).

Mrs Legal activities

In 1912, she took leave at the WTUL and worked at the Harriot Stanton Blatch of ( 1856-1940 ) in 1907, founded Suffragettenorganisation Equality League of Self- Supporting Women, which took care of the organization of the workers. It was a brilliant speaker and therefore a leading propagandist for women's suffrage. The objection of a senator, the women would lose at the ballot box their femininity, she countered with the rhetorical question of where women who work thirteen hours in the heat of laundries or because of the heat shirtless stood in the foundries, their charm rather would lose. As a suffragette and radical trade unionist, she received at their bourgeois opponents of the epithets "Red Rose of Anarchy", while she sat down with a charge to defend.

In 1915 she supported the American Woman's Peace Party and its delegation to the International Women's Peace Conference in The Hague. After the end of World War II it belonged to the 1919 U.S. trade union delegation at the Paris Peace Conference.

Socio-political activities

The Briton Margaret Bond Field in November 1919, she organized an international conference on women's work. Although your supported by the New York State Labor Party candidacy for a Senate seat in 1920 failed, but she made so that their political goals known: social housing, schools, energy supply in the public sector, consumer cooperatives, public health care, unemployment insurance.

From 1917 to 1949, Schneiderman chairman of the New York Women's Trade Union League ( NYWTUL ) and between 1926 to 1950 and chairman of the American Women's Trade Union League ( WTUL ). In 1922, Eleanor Roosevelt joined the WTUL, and Schneiderman brought her all over unionism. In the period Schneiderman and Maude Schwartz also took influence on the socio-political setting of the time ill Franklin D. Roosevelt. In the time of the Great Depression and the New Deal was Schneiderman member of the Labor Advisory Board of the National Recovery Administration, in which the laws " National Labor Relations Act ," " Social Security Act " and " Fair Labor Standards Act " were prepared. In the local government of New York from 1937 to 1943 she was Head of the Department for Work and pursued the issues of social security for domestic workers, equal pay for women, working conditions, trade union rights in service occupations.

Support of the Zionist movement

Schneiderman was an active supporter of the Zionist movement in the United States and promoted the settlement of Kibbutz Kfar Blum ( Leon Blum Colony ) in Palestine. She attended with their means for the support of the 1930s to the early 1940s, before the German Nazis who fled from Europe Jews.

Private life

In 1949 she retired. Schneiderman had a longstanding relationship with the trade unionist Maud Swartz ( 1879-1937 ).

Writings

• With Lucy Goldthwaite: All for one. S. Eriksson, New York 1967