Background
ANDERSON, Mary was born in Lidkoping, Sweden. Daughter of Magnus and Matilda (Johnson) Anderson
director Women’s Bureau of United States Department of Labor
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 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; apptd. to Women in Industry Section
Appointed by Secy, of Labor Wilson as Asst, 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; apptd. by Secretary Wilson, Head of a Division. in an Executive Dept, of Government., reapptd. by President Harding, confirmed by Senate, 1920; Chmn. 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