Among the demands that the Club wanted implemented were a Chair Law for sales clerks to be allowed to rest between customers, an eight-hour work day, minimum wages as well as maternity leave and child care services.
As working conditions worsened, and the government failed to address labor problems and U.S. imperialism many social groups radicalized.
[12] Jorge de Tella spoke in favor of birth control causing a fissure with the feminist movement and the Catholic Community.
With growing government unrest, he decided to add enfranchisement to a list of reforms he wanted,[13] but the legislature rejected universal suffrage.
Feminists formed the Committee for the Defense of Women's Suffrage (Spanish: Comité de Defensa del Sufragio Femenino) (CDSF) and began lobbying delegates directly.
Domínguez Navarro wanted an organization that worked for political, as well as economic change and supported the interests of working-class women.
[21] In January 1931 Jorge de Tella and Hortensia Lamar organized a march demanding Machado's resignation and gathered feminists from the Alianza, Club Femenino, Lyceum, and Unión.
On 3 February 1934, the vote was extended to Cuban women[26] and in August of that year, Pilar Jorge de Tella was renounced by Raúl Roa García for an anti-communist editorial she published in the magazine Carteles.