Votes for Women is a 1912 American silent melodrama film directed by Hal Reid.
[1] It was produced by Reliance Film Company in partnership with the National American Woman Suffrage Association and was written by suffragists Mary Ware Dennett, Harriet Laidlaw, and Frances Maule Bjorkman.
The film featured cameos by prominent suffragists, including; Anna Howard Shaw, Jane Addams, and Inez Milholland, and incorporated documentary footage of a women's suffrage parade in New York City.
[2][3][4] May Fillmore, one of the most ardent of the workers, discovers that the father of a little motherless tenement brood has died of tuberculosis, after having vainly importuned the owner.
The other tot is a half-time scholar, and in the afternoons assists her sister working on corset covers for another shop.