; Whereas, in 1868, Kate Mullany traveled to New York City to attend the National Labor Union meeting alongside only 3 other women delegates: Mary Kellogg Putnam, Susan B. Anthony, and Mary A. MacDonald; Whereas Kate Mullany was appointed Assistant Secretary by the National Labor Union President William Sylvis on the last day of the conference, the first time in United States history that a woman served as a national labor union officer; Whereas, despite dissolving the Collar Laundry Union of Troy in 1870, a union that had lasted more than twice as long as any other women’s union at the time, Kate Mullany continued to be a leading part of a network of labor activists and helped author the resolution of the Working Women’s State Labor Union of New York in support of cooperatives; Whereas a local newspaper claimed there were not enough women in New York to be labor organizers, and Kate Mullany responded confidently: You show me the women and I’ll turn them into organizers. ; Whereas Kate Mullany was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York, in 2000 where it is noted: As a labor leader and organizer, Mullany is one of early American labor history’s most important women , and into the Labor’s International Hall of Fame in Detroit, Michigan, in 2018; Whereas the enduring legacy of Kate Mullany is as a legendary champion in the struggle for economic and social justice for America’s working class, and a role model for subsequent generations of working women; and Whereas the Kate Mullany House at 350 Eighth Street in Troy, New York, was designated a National Historic Landmark by the Secretary of the Interior in 1998 and a National Historic Site by an Act of Congress in 2004, and is owned and being restored by the American Labor Studies Center: Now, therefore, be it