 This organization sought to utilize the support of the mainstream suffrage movement in a pragmatic effort to attain the vote for women.Among the organization’s cofounders were shirtwaist makers Clara Lemlich and Mollie Schepps, and laundry worker Margaret Hinchey.The oldest of the founders, Leonora O'Reilly, was elected the president of the Wage Earner’s League while the famed organizer of the New York shirtwaist strike of 1909, Clara Lemlich, was elected its vice president and would serve as the organization’s chief organizer.