[2] Lodges were present in Massachusetts, California, Illinois, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
In 1870, a convention of the Daughters of St. Crispin unanimously adopted a resolution which demanded equal pay for doing the same work as men.
This strike was unsuccessful but another that same year in Lynn, Massachusetts was successful, granting workers higher wages.
[3] Members of the union testified before Congress in 1874 in favor of labor laws that limited women and children to a 10-hour work day in manufacturing jobs.
[3] Though the national organization began to decline as early as 1873 as a result of the Long Depression,[5] local chapters in Massachusetts remained active,[1] and many individual members eventually joined the Knights of Labor which formed in 1869.