Typed speech on “Housing as Affected by War Industries” with accompanying six index cards outlining speech. Explains reasons for Cleveland's housing shortage. “We did exactly what England had done – Built the plants and forgot absolutely that we had to house the workmen.” Discusses bunk houses that went up and living conditions of the worker. Explains that philanthropy will not touch problem, but that business is concerned with the housing of workers. She suggests raising wages so “it goes into clean living, comfortable bed, wholesome food and dry clothing . . . The well run home becomes an efficient extension of the efficient shop.” Cites the passed bill appropriating $50 million for the shipping board to house workers who build ships and the bill before Congress for $50 million for the housing of munitions and aviation workers as “a beginning.” “Each man's work and consequently each man's health is a national asset . . .” (15 pages). Also includes six note cards on the same topic., No date

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 16

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Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Charlotte Rumbold Papers Series comprises mostly correspondence to and from family members and colleagues from 1918 to 1937. The papers are arranged chronologically and include four letters from Roger Nash Baldwin, a prominent social activist who helped form the American Civil Liberties Union. The Caroline Rumbold Papers Series includes mostly correspondence to and from family members from 1918 to 1929. In the correspondence, their brother Frank Meeker Rumbold referred to his sister Charlotte as "Budge," and Caroline as "Toots" and "Tom." The Engelmann Family Papers Series includes typed translatations (from German) of letters of Lieutenant Adolph Engelmann to his parents during the Mexican War, 1846-1847. Charlotte Rumbold, a seventh-generation members of the Engelmann family, owned these family papers. The papers are arranged chronologically. The General Correspondence Series comprises letters from Charlotte's brother, Frank Rumbold, to his wife, along with several letters from her friend, writer Mary E. Buckley to her friend, Horace Swope. The Charlotte Rumbold Speeches Series includes her speeches on street life and housing conditions. The Caroline Rumbold Travel Diaries Series includes three diaries from her trip around the world in 1928 and 1929. Caroline Rumbold's travel diaries and her letters to siblings from her world tour are similar in content. The Miscellaneous Series includes Caroline Rumbold's scrapbook and Charlotte Rumbold's "Report of the Housing Committee of The Civic League of St. Louis."