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The National Women’s Trade Union League (est. 1903) supported strikes that led to the establishment of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. The NWTUL’s official seal was designed by the sculptor Julia Bracken Wendt. It depicts a young mother shaking hands with an allegorical female figure of victory. Wendt herself worked as a domestic servant until the woman who employed her enrolled her at the Art Institute of Chicago. This 1914 pamphlet promotes the NWTUL’s training school for women labor organizers. #NotHiddenLabor