 Although it did not reject their participation, it did restrict their membership capacity, not allowing them to hold any sway in regard to the shaping of the league’s campaigns, literature, or speeches.Resulting from the league’s leaders heavy focus upon factories and immigrant neighborhoods as grounds for its outreach, the organization’s membership was decidedly working-class.While the majority of the league’s membership was from within the working-class, its small amount of non-working-class members provided most of the financial support that constituted the league’s budget.