Margaret
Haley was
born in Joliet, Illinois,
on 15th November, 1861. Haley became a teacher in Chicago in 1876.
An early member of the Chicago
Teachers' Federation
she became a full-time official in 1901.
In 1903 Haley joined with Mary
Kenney O'Sullivan,
Jane
Addams, Mary McDowell,
Helen Marot, Agnes
Nestor, Florence Kelley and Sophonisba
Breckinridge to form the Women's Trade Union
League.
Haley was also president of the National
Federation of Teachers and used this organization to help develop
the more important National Education Association. Haley led a long
campaign for state pensions for teachers and this was successfully
introduced in Illinois in 1907.
Haley became an organizer with the American
Federation of Teachers when
it was established in 1916. She also wrote and published the Margaret
Haley Bulletin
(1915-31). Margaret
Haley died in Chicago on 5th January,
1939.
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