"[1] Shortly afterwards Anthony was seated as a delegate of the WWA at the annual congress of the National Labor Union (NLU), the first national labor federation in the U.S.[2] The WWA's membership grew to include over a hundred wage-earning women in addition to journalists and other women whose work was more intellectual than manual.
From Anthony's point of view, she was simply promoting increased job opportunities for women, one of her declared intentions.
[7] As the female union printers began to work more closely with their male counterparts, their ties with the WWA weakened.
[10] The WWA played a leading role, along with The Revolution, in the campaign to win the release of Hester Vaughn, a domestic worker who had been found guilty of infanticide and sentenced to death.
Charging that the social and legal systems treated women unfairly, the WWA petitioned, organized a rally in New York, and sent delegations to visit Vaughn in prison and to speak with the governor.