Editing Susan B. Anthony (section)

===Attempted alliance with labor===
The [[National Labor Union]] (NLU), which was formed in 1866, began reaching out to farmers, African Americans and women, with the intention of forming a broad-based political party.<ref>DuBois (1978), [https://archive.org/details/feminismsuffrage00dubo_0/page/112 pp. 112, 114].</ref> ''The Revolution'' responded enthusiastically, declaring, "The principles of the National Labor Union are our principles."<ref>"The National Labor Union and U.S. Bonds," ''The Revolution'', April 9, 1868, p. 213. Quoted in DuBois (1978), [https://archive.org/details/feminismsuffrage00dubo_0/page/110 p. 110].</ref> It predicted that "The producers—the working-men, the women, the negroes—are destined to form a triple power that shall speedily wrest the sceptre of government from the non-producers—the land monopolists, the bond-holders, the politicians."<ref>"National Labor Congress," ''The Revolution'', October 1, 1868, p. 200.</ref>
Anthony and Stanton were seated as delegates to the NLU Congress in 1868, with Anthony representing the [[Working Women's Association]] (WWA), which had recently been formed in the offices of ''The Revolution''.<ref>DuBois (1978), [https://archive.org/details/feminismsuffrage00dubo_0/page/123 pp. 123, 133].</ref>

The attempted alliance did not last long. During a printers' [[strike action|strike]] in 1869, Anthony voiced approval of an employer-sponsored training program that would teach women skills that would enable them in effect to replace the strikers. Anthony viewed the program as an opportunity to increase employment of women in a trade from which women were often excluded by both employers and unions. At the next NLU Congress, Anthony was first seated as a delegate but then unseated because of strong opposition from those who accused her of supporting [[strikebreakers]].<ref>DuBois (1978), [https://archive.org/details/feminismsuffrage00dubo_0/page/155 pp. 155–159].</ref>

Anthony worked with the WWA to form all-female labor unions, but with little success. She accomplished more in her work with the joint campaign by the WWA and ''The Revolution'' to win a pardon for [[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 mass meeting at which Anthony was one of the speakers, and sent delegations to visit Vaughn in prison and to speak with the governor. Vaughn was eventually pardoned.<ref>DuBois (1978), [https://archive.org/details/feminismsuffrage00dubo_0/page/145 pp. 145–146].</ref>

Originally with a membership that included over a hundred wage-earning women, the WWA evolved into an organization consisting almost entirely of journalists, doctors and other middle-class working women. Its members formed the core of the New York City portion of the new national suffrage organization that Anthony and Stanton were in the process of forming.<ref>DuBois (1978), [https://archive.org/details/feminismsuffrage00dubo_0/page/n198 <!-- pg=193 --> pp. 133, 148–151, 161, 193].</ref>