You..ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones

Thursday April 30, 1903
Anaconda, Montana - Socialist Party Wins Victory in Copper Town
While the Socialist ticket in Butte was handed a defeat by the voters, in nearby Anaconda, the Socialist Party won its first municipal election victory west of the Mississippi. This month Anaconda voters chose the Socialist candidates to fill the offices of mayor, city treasurer, and city police judge. Socialist alderman will also fill three of the six seats. Socialist Party National Secretary, William Mailly, wired his congratulations, calling the results a "splendid victory."

It seems like only a couple of weeks since California became the third state, after Colorado and Oregon, to require health insurers to cover the medical needs of transgender residents of the state. Oh, hey, it wasjust two weeks ago.

On April 22 Vermont's Department of Financial Regulation's Division of Insurance issued a new health bulletin which requires insurance companies wishing to do business in the state to cover "medically necessary services" for all transgender residents. That includes sex reassignment surgery.

DFR is committed to ensuring that Vermonters do not face discrimination in accessing medically necessary health care benefits, including those based on gender identity and gender dysphoria.

This is both a simple question of fairness and a matter addressed by existing insurance law and DFR regulation.

--DFR Insurance Bulletin 174 (pdf)

You..ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones

Wednesday April 29, 1903
More on Women and the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
Founded in 1900, the ILGWU had 8,865 members in fifty-one locals by 1902. The union fought a successful jurisdictional battle with the United Shirt and Waist Workers' Union, and thereby won the right to organize the ladies' shirtwaist makers, most of whom are young women. These young women make considerably lower wages than the men. The international pays $5 to any organizer who is able to establish a new local. None of these organizers are women.

You..ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones

Tuesday April 28, 1903
New York City - Men Hold All Leadership Positions within the ILGWU
Having been founded, for the most part, by Socialist, the men who lead the International Ladies Garment Workers Union seem to share the same view of women held by the more conservative AFL leaders: that women workers are preoccupied with getting married, are apathetic union members, and are unable to sustain a strong, united organization. They believe, therefore, that only men should hold leadership roles within the union. It remains to be seen how long the women of the ILGWU will accept this state affairs.