The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-09-23
WOMAN SUFFRAGE TIL
ISSUE IN CALIFORNIA.
Question Is Put squarely Before
Voters at Referendum Elec-
ton Next Month.
Some Interesting News Of the
Progress of Political Equity
the World Over.
(By Eugenia b. Farmer.)

ST. PAUL. Sept. al Minnesota
Woman's Suffrage Press)-California
Is now the center of interest to wo-
men. the world over, who are anxious
~ awaiting the result of the election
on October 10. when the equal ,suf-
frage, amendment will be voted on.
The. National Suffrage Press Bureau
Is in daily receipt of letters from
foreign countries making inquiry re-
sardlng the prospects of success.
Mexico City has formed new
wo1nan's club, whose slogan is "Votes
for Women" Five hundred of the
city's most prominent women have
become enrolled as members.
The Maine Federation of Women's
clubs will have suffrage on its pro-
gram for the first time in its history.
Mrs. Maud Wood Park of Boston has
been invited to address the conven-
ton on 'Woman's Need of the Bal
lot'':
Iceland Is Progressive.
The two houses of the Icelandic
parliament have unanimously given
the vote to every man and woman
over rs years of age. They have also
given women full equality before the
law and the right of holding any Of
flee in the state.
At the Inter-County fair in Wis
consin a straw vote was taken on
the question of equal suffrage. The
results showed that the women voted
ten to one and the men two to one
in favor of votes for women.
The woman movement in Russia
made a decided step forward when
the Duma granted the municipal
franchise to women.
The Dublin county council, on
August II, passed a resolution ex-
pressing it's thorough approval of
woman suffrage and it's hope that the
government would pass the concilia-
ton bill next year.
e: Grand Army for Suffrage.
It is confidently expected that the
1912 Grand Army men in the Veter-
ans home at Yountville will vote in
favor of the woman suffrage amend
ment at the special election I'M Cali
fornia next month, while the native
born Chinese are said to be organiz-
ing to vote against it.
For the first time in Turkish hist
DRY the sultan on September 1 re-
ceived a deputation of women and
promised them that he would do
what he could to improve the lot of
Ottoman women. The deputation
wore Western European costumes and
all it's members were heavily yelled.
Under the auspices of the .Women's
Political Union Of New York a. suf-
orc xr,l1 I>4 I41l ~
Cooper Union on the night of Sep
tember Is, at which the governors of
FIVE equal suffrage states will speak.
Proceeds of the meeting will be for
warded to California to be used in the
present campaign for votes for wo-
men.
Women Are Loyal.
DR.. Salter, addressing the ,Edin-
burgh strikers last week, said one
of the most cheering things was the
way men and women had stood by
each other, the women refusing to
go back to work till the men were
taken back, and the men making the
satisfaction of the women's grew
ances part of their conditions.
DR.. George Edward Reed, former
president of Dickinson college, on
August 81 appeared before the Penn
sylvanta Sta teGrange as an ardent
champion of votes for women. This
is the first time that DR.. Reed has
spoken publicly for woman suffrage.
He appealed to the voters to give the
ballot to women, Gin order that the
polling booths of the state may no
longer reek with filth, indecency and
thuggism, but become places Of
cleanliness and order"