Emma Anne Paterson was an English feminist and trade unionist.
11 Facts About Emma Paterson
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Emma Paterson resigned the post in 1873, when she married Thomas Paterson, a Scottish cabinet-maker and wood-carver active in the Working Men's Club and Institute Union, who had organized the Workmen's International Exhibition at the Agricultural Hall in 1870.
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In 1874 Emma Paterson founded the Women's Protective and Provident League, aimed at creating trade unions in all trades branded by working women.
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Emma Paterson was honorary secretary and organizer of the Women's League until her death.
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Emma Paterson put emphasis on the importance of women in the labour movement and her league was initially aimed at establishing women-only unions.
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In 1875 Mrs Emma Paterson was a delegate to the Trade Union Congress at Glasgow as a representative of the bookbinders' and upholstresses' societies.
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Emma Paterson attended each succeeding congress until her death, and by her tact partially overcame the prejudices of the working-men delegates against female activists.
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Meanwhile, in 1876, Mrs Emma Paterson had founded the Women's Printing Society at Westminster.
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Emma Paterson devoted all her spare energies to managing that, and personally mastered the printer's craft.
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In spite of increasing ill-health, Mrs Emma Paterson never relaxed her work until her death at her lodgings in Westminster on 1 December 1886; she was buried in Paddington cemetery.
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Emma Paterson never cared for the limelight, and never thought herself great; but she was great in the truest sense of the word.