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Houston Labor and Trades Council

Houston Labor and Trades Council
On February 5, 1918, during a general meeting, Houston branches of organized labor consolidated. The Houston Labor Council became the Houston Labor and Trades Council. In the same meeting, the Council, by resolution, endorsed suffrage in Texas, as follows: "That the Council ask the Governor of Texas to submit to the special session of the legislature an amendment to the Terrill election law extending to women the right of suffrage in the democratic primaries."

Hortense Ward ( Hortense Sparks; 1872–1944), Lavinia Engle (1892–1979), and Martha Alice Wood, MD (1877–1947), appeared before the Council on behalf of the amendment.

Name changes

 * 1942: Houston Central Labor and Trade Council
 * 1952: Houston Industrial Labor Council
 * 19??: Houston Area Industrial Labor Council

Secretaries

 * 1912: George Wilson
 * 1910–1914: William Edward Carroll (1881–1931); Carroll was also secretary of the Labor Messenger
 * 1954–1965: Norman Earnest Coward (1909–1965)

Executive secretaries

 * 1914–1931: William Edward Carroll (1881–1931)
 * 1931–1954: George Alexander LaTour Wilson (1875–1954)

Presidents

 * 1919: H.S. Spencer
 * 1925–1931: George Alexander LeTour Wilson (1875–1954)
 * 1935: Eddie L. Woods
 * 1942–1946: B.F. McClellan
 * 1950: Troy D. Slaughter
 * 1952: Charley Sparks

Vice Presidents

 * 1919: D.W. Tracy
 * 1924: Roy Williams

Attorneys

 * 1919: Sewell Myer

Membership

 * 1949: 30,000
 * 1953: 60,000

Publications

 * Labor Messenger..