Mary Macarthuri
Born 13 Aug 1880

Macarthur founded the National Federation of Women Workers in 1906 for women in "sweated" trades that men's unions ignored, and campaigned for the Trade Boards Act 1909, which set legal minimum wages in chain-making, box-making and tailoring. The next year she led the women chainmakers of Cradley…

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