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Show WELL-ORGANIZ ED Were Ready to Participate in Anti-Conscription CampaignSign Cam-paignSign Pledge. DUBLIN, Juno 20. (Correspondence (Correspond-ence of the Associated Press.) Irish women, were organized for participation participa-tion In the nnti-conscription campaign in Ireland as never before in the history his-tory of political agitation in Ireland. Much is now heard of tho "Woman's Pledge," which was the leading feature fea-ture of the women's sido of the anti-conscription anti-conscription campaign. Tho pledge reads as follows: "Because the enforcement of conscription con-scription on any people without their consent Is tyranny, wo are resolved to resist tho conscription of Irishmen. Wo will not fill the places of men deprived of their work through refusing re-fusing enforced military service. We will do all in our power to help the families of men who suffer through enforced en-forced military service." Tho occasion chosen for tho universal uni-versal signing of this pledge by the women of Ireland was the festival of St. Columbeillo, a national saint much 1 talked about at the present time on account of some war prophecies attributed at-tributed to him, including one in which ho !s said to have predicted conscription. Tho woman's pledge was part of a schemc with which conscription was resisted. Wherever possible, the signing sign-ing was accompanied by floral demonstration dem-onstration and organizations taking part carried wreaths, crosses and other symbols to decorate the place of signing. sign-ing. The ceremony also was accompanied accom-panied by pilgrimages and processions proces-sions to some place of veneration such as a church, holy well site of altar in penal days, or some local memorial memor-ial of national history. 00 |