 The Wage Earner’s Suffrage League’s largest public effort was that of the rally held at Cooper Union in 1912.The league staged a protest of the New York State legislature’s failure to issue a formal endorsement of women’s suffrage during the state legislature’s suffrage debate.Mary Ritter Beard of the National Woman’s Party had suggested that O'Reilly gather the leaders of the Wage Warner’s Suffrage League and respond to the statements made against suffrage.