suffragist, labor organizer, reformer, b. Wauwatosa. She was married first to R. I. McCreery of Green Bay, and then to a Californian whom she soon divorced. Throughout her career she was known as "Miss Maud McCreery." From 1912 to 1917 she was active in the woman's suffrage movement, and in 1917 toured the country on behalf of the League to Enforce Peace. In the 1920's she was a field promotion worker for the Federated Press news service in Chicago, and about 1930 returned to Wisconsin at the invitation of Victor L. Berger (q.v.) to write a woman's page for Berger's Milwaukee Leader. In this capacity she became an active worker in the Socialist party, as well as in the Milwaukee Federated Trades Council and the Farm-Labor-Progressive Federation. A forceful and dynamic speaker, she was known throughout the state for her labor-organizing activities. In 1936 she became editor of the Sheboygan New Deal, a labor newspaper which under her editorship became ardently socialist. She resigned the editorship during the same year, however, and in 1937 became area organizer for the A. F. of L. In 1937 she also joined the faculty of the School for Workers at the Univ. of Wisconsin, where she taught parliamentary Iaw and public speaking. She died in Milwaukee. Milwaukee Sentinel, Apr. 11, 1938; Milwaukee Leader, Apr. 11, 1938; Sheboygan Times, Apr. 14, 1938.Learn More
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