Barnum, Gertrude (1866–1948)
Barnum, Gertrude (1866–1948)
American labor reformer. Born Sept 29, 1866, in Chester, Illinois; died June 17, 1948, in Los Angeles, California.
Served in Chicago at Jane Addams' Hull House (1890s) and as head worker of Henry Booth House (1902–03); was national organizer for National Women's Trade Union League (early 1900s), special agent of International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (1911–16), special agent for President Wilson's US Commission on Industrial Relations (1914), assistant director of investigation service at Department of Labor (1918–19), and officer of Harriot Stanton Blatch's Equality League of Self-Supporting Women.
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