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Unbound. Condition: Fair. No place or date. Perhaps New York, 1918. Single sheet, 8 ½ by 11 inches. A flyer soliciting help for the Women's Union, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, as well as highlighting initiatives undertaken by the union. The piece mentions the union's efforts to get more pay for women, its recent affiliation with the Federal Employees Union, and its sick and death benefits. It asks that the reader joins the union, attend upcoming meetings and acquire and wear the union badge. The Women's Union, Bureau of Engraving and Printing was formed in 1909 by Gertrude McNally Steward, in an effort to serve the needs of women employees of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. While women had worked in various capacities in the Bureau since the 1860s, they most often held the job of press feeders, an extremely labor intensive job that paid $1.25 a day in the 1880s and 1890s. Extreme heat, exposure to chemicals and pollutants were part of the conditions in which women worked, with the union formed in part to gain more pay and remedy for the poor work environment. FAIR condition. Heavy chipping, tearing, creasing and loss along the extremities, mostly the right edge. Uneven toning. Small faint spot to the lower center margin. (See Bureau of Printing and Engraving and the Streets of Washington's websites for historical information).