tains" of the districts and their
helpers.

The largest registration of men voters in the State was 1,942,000;
there were nearly 100,000 more men than women of voting age and many
more men than women were naturalized, therefore it was evident that
1,014,000 signatures represented a good majority of women eligible to
vote. This enormous piece of work was done almost entirely by
volunteers. For many months women in every county went from door to
door, preaching suffrage, asking wives to talk to their husbands about
it and leaving literature. The effect of this personal education was
undoubtedly great and the petition influenced public opinion.

The propaganda carried on by the Educational section under Mrs. Howard
Mansfield was enormous, including training schools, travelling
libraries and 8,000 sets of correspondence courses sent out. Women
were trained in watchers' schools for work at the polls and 15,000
leaflets of instructions were furnished. Over 11,000,000 pieces of
literature, 7 million posters and nearly 200,000 suffrage novelties
were used, in addition to the 5,000,000 pieces used in New York City.
The Industrial Section, under Miss Mary E. Dreier, president of the
Women's Trade Union League, made effective appeals to organized labor.
A series of letters setting forth the conditions under which women
work and their relation to the vote were distributed at factory doors
as men left for home during the last fifteen weeks of the campaign.
Organizers and speakers from their own ranks, men and women, spoke at
trade union meetings, in factories and on the street. The State
Federation of Labor endorsed the work and the Women's Trade Union
League gave constant help. The Church Section, under Miss Adella
Potter, was very successful in its appeal with specially prepared
literature and the churches were an active force.

Every registered voter was circularized at least once and many twice.
Special letters and literature were prepared for picked groups of men,
198,538 letters in all, and speakers were sent to the military camps
where this was permitted. The Speakers' Bureau, conducted by Mrs.
Victor Morawetz, had 150 speakers on its lists and a record of 2,015
speakers placed in the State. Besides these more than 7,000 meetings
were arranged independently. In New York City 58 speakers held 2,085
meetings, a total of 11,100. Senators and Representatives from the
equal suffrage States were to speak in the closing days of t