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About Maud O'Farrell Swartz:
Work in the suffrage movement led to a friendship with Rose Schneiderman, and, though Maud Swartz remained connected to some well-to-do American relatives, she became active in the Women's Trade Union League and in the labor movement, often working with Rose Schneiderman. Maud's knowledge of languages was especially useful in working with immigrant women seeking workmen's compensation for workplace injuries.
Maud Swartz served as president of the WTUL from 1922-1926, during a period when the organizing efforts declined in a business climate less friendly to unions and a move by the organization more into reform through legislative channels. In 1931 she went to work for Frances Perkins in the New York State Department of Labor, and served until struck in 1937 with a heart attack.
Maud Swartz and Rose Schneiderman had a long-term personal and professional relationship that in today's world might be described as a domestic partnership.
