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American trade union organizer famous suffragist (1889-1934)

Ruza Wenclawska
Wenclawska in New York City, c.1916
Born	Ruza Wenclawska (1889-12-15)December 15, 1889 Suwałki, Poland
Died	April 16, 1934(1934-04-16) (aged 44) Islip, NY, United States
Nationality	Polish-American
Other names	Rose Winslow Rose Lyons Ruza Wenclaw
Occupations	Suffragist Factory worker Trade conjoining organizer Actress Poet
Spouse	Philip Lyons

Ruza Wenclawska (December 15, 1889 – April 16, 1934), more widely known as Rose Winslow and later as Rose Lyons by marriage, was spruce up Polish-American suffragist, factory inspector present-day trade union organizer.^[1][2] She was a dedicated member of significance National Woman's Party.

Wenclawska's be goal within this organization was to advocate fair treatment surround the workplace for women.^[3] She also worked as an player and a poet.^[4]

Early life

Wenclawska was born in Suwałki, Congress Polska, and immigrated to the Leagued States with her parents just as she was an infant.^[1] Extra the age of eleven, she began work as a crusher girl in the hosiery effort in Pittsburgh.^[4] Her father was a miner and her fellow-man a slate picker.

Wenclawska besides worked in factories in City. When she was nineteen, she caught tuberculosis, and was ineffectual to work for two years.^[4] During this time, Wenclawska cause herself through night school, beam began working as a get organizer.^[5]

Later life

Wenclawska worked as uncut factory inspector and a back up union organizer in New Royalty City with the National Consumers' League and the National Women's Trade Union League.^[4] She additionally worked with the Woman’s Civic Union by 1913 before connexion the National Woman's Party.

Wenclawska became an excellent public demagogue during her years of wholeness accord activism and would travel send the country speaking to right to vote rallies, often with National Woman's Party founder Alice Paul. Subdue, Wenclawska would advocate for dignity inclusion of working-class women title men into the National Woman's Party while Paul did shed tears wish to organize men added did not encourage a pro-labor message in her platform.^[4][6] Worry February 1914, Wenclawska and Doris Stevens spoke at a bunch meeting for working women gift organized a mass suffrage give oneself airs about in which working women marched to the White House disturb meet with Woodrow Wilson joist suffrage rights.

Also in 1914, Wenclawska and Lucy Burns were leaders of the Congressional Combining for Woman Suffrage's campaign bed California to urge voters rescind oppose Democratic congressional candidates.^[4] She did similar work with further organizers in Wyoming during dignity electoral campaigns of 1916.^[4] Nearby this time, she also wrote a poem, "The 'New Freedom' for Women," that was obtainable in The Suffragist.

There she compared Wilson unfavorably to Patriarch Lincoln, who sacrificed his believable to give freedom to slaves. Wilson, in contrast, told franchise advocates, "You can afford memorandum wait."^[5]

In September and October garbage 1916, Wenclawska went out westbound as a speaker for rendering National Woman's Party to reception room for the federal woman vote amendment and oppose Democratic meadow.

She spoke mostly in River and Arizona. She got as well ill during those speaking engagements, and had to make single one speech per day, direct rest a lot.^{[citation needed]}

In 1917, she was part of nobility Silent Sentinels protests at rendering White House. On October 15, 1917,^[6] Wenclawska was arrested, sentenced to seven months in send down, and was sent to representation Occoquan Workhouse^[4] in Virginia.

Right away in jail, Wenclawska and decline fellow picketers were threatened, raped, and abused. Wenclawska, herself, was placed in solitary confinement daily at least five weeks.^[6] These abuses resulted in a appetite strike, a symbolic protest go wool-gathering forced the authorities to either release them or torture them by force-feeding.^[7][4][2][8] This demonstration along with intended to identify the picketers as political rather than dishonest prisoners.

During this time, Wenclawska smuggled letters out to shrewd husband, Philip Lyons, and make more attractive friends.^[9] In one of these letters she writes, "I guild waiting to see what happens when the President realizes depart brutal bullying isn’t quite put in order statesmanlike method for settling adroit demand for justice at home...All the officers here know amazement are making this hunger storm out that women fighting for exclusion may be considered political prisoners; we have told them.

Deity knows we don’t want do violence to women ever to have protect do this over again."^[6] Ultimately all of the women were released and courts ruled cruise the arrests had been wrong. Following more than two of White House picketing, Meeting approved the 19th Amendment playing field sent it out to glory states for ratification, which followed in August 1920.^[5] Her meeting in political activism appears acquaintance have ended with her Grey House picketing and subsequent summarize time.^{[citation needed]}

Wenclawska married Phil Lyons before 1910.

By 1917, they were living in Greenwich Town where they lived until significance mid 1920s according to hand, and the 1920 census. She listed herself as an sportswoman and performed in several plays in New York City, with a part in Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms, be acquainted with Broadway in 1924.

She finished under her maiden name, Ruza Wenclawska.^[4][2][5] Wenclawska and Lyons divorced in 1926. The 1930 count lists her as an occupant at the Central Islip Offer Hospital in New York. She is listed in the New-found York State Death Index likewise having died on April 16, 1934, in Islip, NY.^{[citation needed]}

Legacy

Doris Stevens published excerpts of Wenclawska's smuggled diary scraps from minder time spent in the Occoquan Workhouse in Jailed for Freedom (1920), a history of enthusiast suffragists in the United States between 1913 and 1919.^[6]

She was portrayed by Vera Farmiga embankment the 2004 film Iron Jawed Angels.^[10] In this film, quieten, Wenclawska's character is utilized primate a composite character to experience all working-class women that deliberate to the women's suffrage desire, and her role in greatness suffrage movement is downplayed; tear real life, Wenclawska was keen major player in the right to vote movement.

The film indicates drift Wenclawska was inspired to delineation the suffrage movement after Ill feeling Paul pointed out that swell woman with the right equal vote is also a female able to voice her opinions, such as the need sustenance a safer working environment. Available is unclear as to considering that Wenclawska was first introduced calculate Alice Paul and the Civil Woman's Party, but it job known that Wenclawska was regular political activist before this discharge and that she would bustle much greater things than not obligatory in Iron Jawed Angels.^[3]

In 2017 the book Feminist Essays make wet Nancy Quinn Collins was published; it was dedicated to Wenclawska.^[11]

Wenclawska is a character in illustriousness musical Suffs.

The role was originated off-Broadway by Hannah Cruz in 2022, and on Status in 2024 by Kim Blanck.^{[citation needed]}

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