Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-02-26
Woman Suffrage
Being Boosted
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N9ShlQ2lOu, D-S.y AsSOs 6ts|-NACpAaJ
THAT the national woman suffrage
movement is am active ally of the 30
c;aist- cause and that the Congress
ional Union encamped today in Wash
;rgton. to fight for the federal amend
rent is ,sympathetically associated
With the Socialist cause have become
Increasingly evident during the last
few weeks.
The Congressional Union, whose
leaders, Alice Paul and Lucy Burns,
have been in the militant British sof
frage movement, employs workers who
are ardent Socialists and who, when
tho business of winning the vote is
won will turn their energies into the
Socialist political movement. This
fact has been shown again and again.
II was first apparent last March when
the Union invited a delegation of So
cialsts to parade up Pennsylvania
Avenue in their great pageant. A
loaflet which is being widely circula-
ted BY Mrs Dodge, the president of
the Anti-Suffragists, contains photo
graph of the Socialist section of the
narade, of which Charles Edward Rus
sell was marshall, and comment signt-
6cantly as follows:
suddenly the scene changed. The
yellow was gone, and in its place was
red-red sashes, red banners, red hat
hands. red dresses. The Light, gay
music had died away, and there burst
a nthe. night air the solemn, stirring
: strains of the .Marseillaise, the IA
nous revolutionary anthem. Men and
women were marching past now. hun
dreds of them in close rank, with firm,
steady tread, determination written on
their grim, set faces. All was red, red,
red and as the writer gaze". stun
ned by the sudden, weird TRANSITIONAL
ton, he saw displayed on their red
banner the inscription-iEVERY So
ClALIST is A SUFTlRAGIST- Social
lists are behind Woman Suffrage and
if they should succeed in getting 1t,
as the red suddenly flashed out in
place Of the yellow before the writer's
eyes in the parade that November
night so will the Socialist Republic
and the Cooperative Commonwealth
burst forth in the wake of Woman
Suffrage .---..--.
1t was under the auspices of the Con
gessional Union that George Lans-
bury, the Socialist member of Parliar
ment, spoke when in Washington. 1t
was also under the auspices of the
Congressional Union that the big dele
CATION of working girls was brought
to Washinton to interview President
Wilson orderi to smoke Inn out on
woman suffrage. One of the leading
girls to address Wilson was Rose Win
slow who is a Socialist. Charles Ed
ward Russell spoke to the delegation
at reception.
One of the organizers for the Con-
gressional Union stated to the writer
that she and many of her co-workers
were Socialists but that they were not
members of the party because they
felt that they must officially Join no
other organization than the suffrage
organization till they win the vote.
The Ants know this, and so do mem
Oers of Congress. Whence their en-
phatc rundown by the reactionary
caucus of the Democratic House.
The Congressional Union will I'M
dertake a strenuous campaign this
summer against the Democratic party
as a party. 1t has abandoned the
timeserving policy of the more con-
sentative suffragists who, Like the A.
:. of l., give their support to indivi-
duals who are friendly and endeaVor
to defeat individuals who are I'M
friendly
We will hold the Democrats re-
Ns9onsible." declared one of the I'm
IONS leaders recently, "and we will
try to utilize the strength of the vot-
ing women of the country to put tine
Democratic party out of business at
the next election because of its at1-
tude on woman Suffrage
The Confessional Union for Wom-
an Suffrage is .one 0 fthe most Live
and effective allies of the Socialist
party now actively working in the ma
uOn. Support it,