Beneath the Surface: Southern Sweatshops Exposed

In a scathing address, Rose Schneiderman, president of the National Women’s Trade Union League, ripped into the deplorable labor conditions in the South. Speaking at the eleventh national convention of the league in Washington D.C.’s Grace Dodge Hotel on May 6, 1929, Schneiderman lambasted the lack of labor laws in most Southern states. ‘There are hardly any labor laws of any kind on the statute books in most of the Southern States either for men or women,’ she declared.