CATT, Carrie Chapman GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE Schneiderman, Rose June 11, 1927 Miss Rose Schneiderman, 247 Lexington Avenue, New York City. My dear Miss Schneiderman: I enclose the part of the proposed article concerning you as it now stands. It will now be submitted to a lawyer to ascertain whether there is anything libelous in the whole article. I have taken as examples three women - Miss Addams, Mrs. Kelley and you. I am sending their parts to them. Will you be so kind as to again read this over and see if it is absolutely true as it now stands. I do not want any comeback. If there is any word or phrase which makes the meaning different from the actual facts, please indicate it [them] on the copy enclosed and return it to me as soon as possible. If not, please toss it in the waste paper basket and write or telephone Miss Wald, 171 Madison Avenue, Ashland 6770, letting her know that it is correct. Very cordially, Dictated but not read. WOMEN'S TRADE UNION LEAGUE 247 LEXINGTON AVENUE NEW YORK ___________ TEL. CALEDONIA 0684 _____________ OFFICERS ROSE SCHNEIDERMAN, PRESIDENT MAUD SWARTZ, VICE-PRESIDENT MARY E. DREIER, VICE-PRESIDENT MABEL LESLIE, SECRETARY-TRESURER WORKINGWOMEN'S COMPENSATION SERVICE MAUD SWARTZ, ADVISER June 8th 1927 Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt 171 Madison Avenue New York My dear Mrs. Catt, Mrs. Swartz has turned over to me your letter addressed to her for me to answer personally that there may be no misunderstanding. I am afraid you did not understand me correctly on the question of the Women's Trade Union League taking a pledge against communism. The League took no action on this matter other than to send delegates to a conference on "The Preservation of Trade Unions against Communism". This conference was called by a group of trade union officials and I was one of the group. What I tried to bring out at the time was that the fight in the labor movement against communism was so intense that in the case of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and the Furriers' Union, the membership has been re-organized, and in joining the re-organized union (Affiliated with the American Federation of labor) the members have to take a pledge against joining or having anything to do with the so-called left wing movement. So far as I am personally concerned, I was one of the signers of the call to a conference for the preservation of trade unions against communism. We have had no communist activity anywhere in the League and so do not have to meet that struggle in the organization. You are right in guessing that I am a Socialist. I am not a member of the party, however, and have not been since 1919. I was active in the La Follette campaign and in the Farmer-Labor Party when that was organized. Both of these movements, I am sorry to say, are no more, and although I am a Socialist by conviction, I am not that strict that I do not scratch my ticket and vote for candidates who I think will do some immediate good and who have a chance to be elected. Very sincerely yours Rose Schneiderman BS&AU Rose Schneiderman June 4, 1927. Mrs. Maud Swartz, 247 Lexington Avenue, New York City. My dear Mrs. Swartz: In an open letter to the D.A.R. I am using Jane Addams, Florence Kelley and Rose Schneiderman as examples of misrepresentation in influence circulated. I am making the point that each of these women is a representative of an organization to which position she has been elected and when she is attacked, the organization too is attacked. Please confirm two points. You remember that Rose herself told me that the Women's Trade Union League took a pledge against Communism. We were, at the moment, discussing Captain Darte. Perhaps I misunderstood and the pledge is not quite so complete as I have made it out to be. There must be no comeback on it. Please let me know just how far that statement is correct. I must also know whether Rose Schneiderman is a Socialist. Very likely she is. I shall put in the list that she is not if Socialist, if that is true, and merely drop it out if she is one. Will you let me have your answer as nearly/at once as possible. Very cordially, Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.