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Show IWOMAN'S PARTY FIGHTFDRECAST Majority Report Recommends Disbandment, Formation of New Group WASHINGTON. Fob. 18. A flchl developed at the National Wonun' .irt. reinvention here today over I proposal to plcdjre the organization tc work tot immediate world disarmament. disarma-ment. Tlve MiiffKostlon was embodied in the minority report from the resolutions' reso-lutions' committee as to the future policy of the party. .Mis. G. G. Scott presented the minority min-ority report and Mrs Harriet Browne, of Iowa, opt-ned the debate under the five minuto rule, urk'ln "M adoption. PREft i. vi ON OF IRS "All of the world prepares for war with poison gag, serins, batl lishlps .ind armies." Mrs. Browne declared. "And that next war they talk about Is coming soon unless you women pre-vent pre-vent it You go a UmK way towards preventing It If yOU simply pass resolutions reso-lutions giving notice cd" your int ntlon to defeat In the next elections all congressmen who will not pledge themselves to disarmament. "V'u women who have never l-orne, a child, who have never lost a child, what do you mean " telling us who have that the question of disarmament dis-armament is not a feminist question?" Mrs. John Rogers, of New York, attacked the statement that womi b could prevent war. She declared the world could not ho saved from wars until women had saved civilization iPi tin s i -11 Washington, Feb. is. Majority and minority reports aa to the m-lure m-lure policy of tho National Woman's party were presented from the resolutions reso-lutions committee at the opening today to-day of the second day's session of the national convention. A spirited fight was forecast. The majority report, brought in by .Mrs. R. A. Calvin, of St. Paul, the committee choflrman, recommended hat "tho National Woman's party having accomplished tho object for which it was created, now disband; that a new organization be created; that tho Immediate work of the new organization bs the removal of the political disabilities of women." Tho report also urged delegates to concentrate effort to sec that the political freedom nhould not be lost "in any association of nations that may he established and to work for the absolute equality of men and women." wo-men." CONGRESS ATTACKED. Members of congress who. she aid. had opposed appropriations for local community centers on the? ground that they were "breeding barest" were taken to task by MKs Margaret Wilson, Wil-son, daughter of the president. In an address today before tho National Woman's party convention. Declaring Declar-ing there was no evidence to support the charge, she Besetted that, even granting there was, it was not the business of congress to supervise the ictlvltiea or speech of those they represent." but "the business of the courts to try the individuals who have broken the law." rsi: or scHOOisS. Adding there had also been SXpres-1 SXpres-1 dons of opposition in congress to the use of schools bv commun'.tv center organizations for dancirir. Ml-- W'l-son W'l-son asked: "Granting that w have a moral H right to ubo the school buildings. Is It any of their business what we do in them, whefher we listen to So-H So-H cialist speeches or whether -,v. 'lance?" Speaking as a representative of the national community center org i nl u -tion. Miss Wilson declared more could bo accomplbhed toward tr is lf-government lf-government and nsoessary social r -forms by the organization of local H groups Into cooperative, thinking bod- le tha" through party org-inixaUons. she advised immediate disbandment of tho National Woman's party which, -jrfhe said, was not in a broad sense "nonpartisan" but "exclusive" and or-ganizod or-ganizod to "build up a woman's ma-chine." ma-chine." which would not be "more honest or effective than a man's rna-'"hlne." rna-'"hlne." FAVOR REORGANIZATION, Prior to the addrf:, however, tho executive committee had placed bo-fore bo-fore the convention a recommendation that the organization be continued, though reorganized under another name and wtuh n new program and a new executive board. Recommenda-Uons Recommenda-Uons submitted also by the national I advisory council and the state chairmen chair-men agreed for the most part with those, of the executive committee. All three provided for a campaign to re-movo re-movo all remaining leal and other discriminations agalnat women and for the prot-etinn ot the. politic . 1 '.r -dom already won In Individual countries coun-tries under any international govern-mnt govern-mnt that may be established. |
