To the Honorable, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the commonwealth of Massachusetts (which may God protect and prosper!) in General Court assembled
Subtitle: We, the undersigned, working-women of the city of Boston, dependent for our daily bread upon the daily labor of our own hands, humbly make known to your honorable body, that we are insufficiently paid for our labor, scantily clothed, poorly fed, and badly lodged ...
Contributors: Massachusetts. General Court
Publisher: Printed at the American Workman Office?
Published: 1869
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Women; Social conditions; Economic conditions; Legal status, laws; Women in the labor movement; Working class women
Notes: Asking the General Court "to cause to be purchased, in the neighborhood of Boston, a tract of good cultivable land ... with a good (but the cheapest possible) house on each lot. It is our desire that these lots should be let on lease to poor working-women of Boston, to whom the state would be willing to furnish rations, tools, seeds, and instruction in gardening, until such time as the women would be able to raise their own food, or otherwise become self-supporting ... the rent to be then so graduated, and so applied as purchase-money, that each woman might, in a reasonable time, pay off, in the form of rent, the entire cost to the state of the lot on which she lives ... and become the sole proprietress of the lot in fee-simple ..."

At head, in square brackets: Note.--This petition is sent to you, because we know you are interested in every measure of labor-reform. Will you be kind enough to secure the services of some woman of your place, equally interested with yourself in these questions, to circulate this document for signatures in your vicinity? When as many names as convenient are secured, please return the petition to Miss Aurora H.C. Phelps, American Workman Office, 37 Cornhill, Boston. Let us have prompt action, and as many names of laboring women and men, as possible.

Followed by two blank columns for signatures.

Printed area measures 25.1 x 15.3 cm.