Editing Bread and Roses (section)

=== Women's Trade Union League ===

[[File:Women&#039;s Trade Union League Emblem.png|thumb|The Women's Trade Union League was central in promoting the [[eight-hour day]], a [[living wage]] and improved working conditions.|upright]]
Helen Todd became involved in the fall of 1910 with the [[1910 Chicago garment workers' strike|Chicago garment workers' strike]], which was led by the [[Women's Trade Union League|Women's Trade Union League of Chicago]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Official report of the Strike committee,Chicago garment workers' strike October 29, 1910-February 18, 1911.|publisher=Women's Trade Union League of Chicago|year=1911|hdl = 2027/inu.32000014247136}}</ref> The Women's Trade Union League worked closely with the Chicago Women's Club in organizing the strike, [[picket lines]], speeches, and [[Strike fund|worker relief activities]]. Helen Todd and the president of the Women's Trade Union League [[Margaret Dreier Robins|Margaret Robins]] made a number of speeches during the strike and manned with the thousands of striking [[garment workers]] the picket lines.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH19101102.2.22&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1|title=Chicago Society Women Arrested in Strikers' Riot|last=Associated Press|date=November 2, 1910|work=Los Angeles Herald|access-date=January 20, 2019}}</ref> During the strike, it was later reported that a sign was seen with the slogan "We want bread – and roses, too".<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006961380;view=1up;seq=183|title=Life and labor: a monthly magazine. v.8|publisher=National Women's Trade Union League|date=September 1918|pages=189}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015013719334;view=1up;seq=341|title=Life and labor bulletin. v.1-10 1922-1932|publisher=National Women's Trade Union League|date=October 1930|pages=10 v }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DiCkMN7ZnW4C|title=The Playground|publisher=Executive Committee of the Playground Association of America.|year=1923|pages=435}}</ref>

In 1911 Helen Todd went out to California to help lead the suffrage movement in the state and campaign in the state's fall election for [[1911 California Proposition 4|proposition 4]], which sought women's suffrage.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/middletown-daily-times-press-feb-17-1915-p-8/|title=Miss Helen Todd Coming to Tell about Votes for Women|date=February 17, 1915|work=Middletown Daily Times Press|access-date=February 10, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qgo9AQAAIAAJ&dq=Helen+MacGregor+Todd&pg=RA5-PA19|title=The Political Rights and Duties of Women|last=Mac Gregor Todd|first=Helen|date=September 30, 1911|publisher=The California Outlook a Progressive Weekly|pages=19–20|language=en}}</ref> The women's suffrage campaign proved successful, and the right for women to vote passed in the state in November 1911.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH19120629.2.140&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1|title=Ballot Uplifts Women of the West Says Worker|date=June 29, 1912|work=Los Angeles Herald|access-date=January 20, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nwhp.org/wp-content/uploads/gazette_How-Women-Won-Vote-.pdf|title=How WomenWon the Vote|website=National Women's History Project|page=8|access-date=January 20, 2019}}</ref> During the [[California]] campaign, the suffragettes carried  banners with several slogans; one was "Bread for all, and Roses, too!"—the same phrase that Helen Todd used in her speech the previous summer.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a_IuHgp0OMYC&q=%22Bread+for+all,+and+Roses,+too%22|title=Farmer's Advocate and Home Journal|date=1912|publisher=Farmer's Advocate of Winnipeg.|pages=229|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j8tZAAAAYAAJ|title=Browning or the Budget|date=November 30, 1911|work=The Independent|access-date=January 21, 2019|page=1220|last1=Bacon|first1=Leonard|last2=Thompson|first2=Joseph Parrish|last3=Storrs|first3=Richard Salter|last4=Beecher|first4=Henry Ward|last5=Leavitt|first5=Joshua|last6=Bowen|first6=Henry Chandler|last7=Fuller|first7=Harold de Wolf|last8=Tilton|first8=Theodore|last9=Ward|first9=William Hayes|last10=Holt|first10=Hamilton|last11=Herter|first11=Christian Archibald|last12=Franklin|first12=Fabian}}</ref>