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for her own union when she is free to work for the workers in other trades.  For this service she has refused to accept any additional salary, but all incidental expenses such as hall rent, printing of leaflets and so forth are of course borne by the National Women's Trade Union League.
     At our Executive Board meeting we discussed the possibility of securing the services of some of our able and experience women in the trade union movement.  For instance, both Mrs. Hogan and Mrs. Schwartz are women of mature years who have had experience in organizing, though still working at their respective trades.  They, naturally, have no special need of detailed study in that branch of the work as do the younger girls like Agnes Burns and Myrtle Whitehead.  Therefore, when these women are engaged in field work their scholarship salary is supplemented by the National or a local Women's Trade Union League.
     Mrs. Schwartz is doing field work in New York with Melinda Scott before undertaking her course of study at the University of Chicago; while Mrs. Hogan is doing field work in Chicago under Agnes Nestor, President of the Women's Trade Union League of Chicago, and also president of the International Glove Worker's Union.  Mrs. Hogan has been particularly helpful since coming to Chicago in her work with the strikers of the Corn Products Refining Company at Argo Illinois, and with the Pullman car cleaners on strike in Chicago.  Later she will take up her work at the University of Chicago.
     One of the difficulties in the past has been the inability on the part of the men to see the necessity of having women organizers stay with a newly created union until these young girls are able to handle their own work. This has been the break in the organization of women workers, although many a men's organization has gone to pieces because they are left without an organizer before any real leader has appeared within their own group.  The National Women's Trade Union League has always believed in keeping an organizer with a newly organized group of girls until they find their own leadership.  Herein lies the strength of the Women's Trade Union League.
     There are no words with which I can thank you for your generous co-operation and understanding which, for the first time in the history of the National Women's Trade Union League, is making possible the planning of constructive work on a sufficiently large scale to make for permanent development and action among the women workers of our country.
     Believe me with all good wishes, 
          Yours very cordially,
          ^[[signature]] Margaret Dreier Robins