Wage Earners Suffrage League FLoat - Working women organized themselves
to gain the vote in California by 1911 in labor-based organizations such
as the Wage Earners Suffrage League. Its representatives are shown here
in a Los Angeles labor parade. The WESL pioneered public agitational techniques
at a time when women were not "supposed to" be public activists.
(Photo courtesy of the Huntington Library.)