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   It also gave a tremendous start to the career of journalist and labor activist Eva McDonald Valesh.
   
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   In 1910, Valesh left the AFL. The reasons aren't entirely clear, but in later years she told an interviewer that she felt unappreciated and that Gompers had refused to acknowledge the importance of her work. She went on to edit a magazine for a women's club involved in reform activities and later became a proofreader for the New York Times. She worked at the Times for 25 years, retiring shortly before her death in 1956 at age 90.
   
   Over the course of her career, Eva McDonald Valesh was witness to many changes in the labor movement. She began as a labor radical in the Knights of Labor. She later adopted the values of "bread and butter unionism" when she worked with the Samuel Gompers in the American Federation of Labor. She was a woman pioneer in labor organizing and in the promotion of women's labor activism. Throughout her career, Eva Valesh wrote sensitively of the plight of women workers. She was a popular speaker on the subject. In her lectures, she sought first to convince working women to organize. Valesh wrote, "The American Federation of Labor is the body best fitted to investigate women's work and apply the proper remedy for existing abuses."
   
   During much of her career, Eva McDonald Valesh celebrated the potential of the labor movement for "ethical influence" and the strength of its "bonds of brotherhood," even as she understood labor did not always live up to its promise of equality for women workers. In these sentiments and others, Eva McDonald Valesh was representative of the labor values of her age.

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   Eva McDonald Valesh
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   It also gave a tremendous start to the career of journalist and labor activist Eva McDonald Valesh.
   ...
   In 1910, Valesh left the AFL. The reasons aren't entirely clear, but in later years she told an interviewer that she felt unappreciated and that Gompers had refused to acknowledge the importance of her work. She went on to edit a magazine for a women's club involved in reform activities and later became a proofreader for the New York Times. She worked at the Times for 25 years, retiring shortly before her death in 1956 at age 90.
   
   Over the course of her career, Eva McDonald Valesh was witness to many changes in the labor movement. She began as a labor radical in the Knights of Labor. She later adopted the values of "bread and butter unionism" when she worked with the Samuel Gompers in the American Federation of Labor. She was a woman pioneer in labor organizing and in the promotion of women's labor activism. Throughout her career, Eva Valesh wrote sensitively of the plight of women workers. She was a popular speaker on the subject. In her lectures, she sought first to convince working women to organize. Valesh wrote, "The American Federation of Labor is the body best fitted to investigate women's work and apply the proper remedy for existing abuses."
   
   During much of her career, Eva McDonald Valesh celebrated the potential of the labor movement for "ethical influence" and the strength of its "bonds of brotherhood," even as she understood labor did not always live up to its promise of equality for women workers. In these sentiments and others, Eva McDonald Valesh was representative of the labor values of her age.