Background
ANDERSON, Mary was born in Lidkoping, Sweden. Daughter of Magnus and Matilda (Johnson) Anderson.
ANDERSON, Mary was born in Lidkoping, Sweden. Daughter of Magnus and Matilda (Johnson) Anderson.
In Sweden. Representative of women in National Boot and Shoe Workers Union. Traveled among industrial workers in various cities in the United States. Traveled in various parts of the United States to organize girls and women of widely divergent trades into locals.
Drafted into service by Council of National Defense Advisory Committee. Appointed to Women in Industry Section.
Appointed by Secy, of Labor Wilson as Assistant, to Miss Mary Van Kleeck, Chief of Women in Industry Bureau. Sent by National Women's Trade Union League to represent women workers at Versailles Peace Conference. Appointed by Secretary Wilson, Head of a Division in an Executive Department of Government, reappointed by President Harding, confirmed by Senate, 1920.
Chairman of Conference by Women's Bureau, composed of all national organs, of women, 1923. Asked by President Hoover to continue as Director of Women's Bureau, since 1930.
Club: Business and Professional Womens (Washington, District of Columbia).