The ten-hour law was sustained.
That the "Girls' Bill" passed, or that it was even introduced, was due in large measure to an organization of women, more militant and more democratic than any other in the United States.

This is the Women's Trade Union League.

Formed in New York about seven years ago, the League consists of women members of labor unions, a few men in organized trades, and many women outside the ranks of wage earners.

Some of these latter are women of wealth, who are believers in the trade-union principle, but more are women who work in the professional ranks,--teachers, lawyers, physicians, writers, artists, settlement workers.

These are the first professional workers, men or women, who ever asked for and were given affiliation with the American Federation of Labor.