Background
ANDERSON, Mary was born in Lidkoping, Sweden. Daughter of Magnus and Matilda (Johnson) Anderson.
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Mary ANDERSON
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In Sweden. Representative of women in National. Boot and Shoe Workers Union. Traveled among industrial workers in various cities in United States.
Traveled in various parts of United States to organize girls and women of widely divergent trades into locals. Drafted into service by Council of National. Defense Adv. Committee.
Appointed to Women in Industry Section.
Career
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 natl. organs, of women, 1923. Asked by President Hoover to continue as Director of Women's Bureau, since 1930.
Membership
Club: Business. and Professional Womens (Washington, District of Columbia).
