Arizona republican., 1916-06-08
Republican A. p. Leased wirel

Republican A. p. Leased Wire1
 CHICAGO, June 7.-The committee On resolutions of the republican nation Hl convention held it's first hearing at the Coliseum late today on matters which various interests desire to have dealt with in the party's platform | Senator Lodge, chairman of the committee, presided Three delega- i tions of women were heard on the 1 equal suffrage question and a com mittee representing union labor urged blanks it desired placed in the plat form. The women's delegation. represe nt- ed the National American Woman Suffrage Association, the Congression- al Union for Woman Suffrage, and the Women's Anti Suffrage Assoca ton.
 Mrs. Ellis Meredith Clement, for four years d commissioner of elections in Colorado, and Mrs. Grace Wilbur Trout, former president of the Hi nois Woman Suffrage Association, spoke in favor of the amendment.
 Representatives of the woman's par ty, organized by members of the Con- gressional Union for Woman Suffrage, next were heard.
 Mrs Harriet Stanton Blatch of Kan sas said the biggest thing the repub- lican party had done was to write the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments into the constitution.
 You stood by the black man: now we want you to stand by the women" she said.
 The resolutions committee listened to Samuel Gompe1s, president of the American Federation of Labor, and Frank Morrison secretary of the Fed cration. The Federation asked the committee to adopt blanks pledging the party to maiIhtain the federal law securing to the working class the legal right of voluntarily association for mu. tual protection alnd welfare; protecting their rights against unwarrantable issues of writ5 of injunctions and guaranteeing thA right of trial by jury in alleged cont tempt cases committed outside the oounds of courts.
 yhTy also asked the enactment of a federal child labor law; the faithful observance and enforcement of all the federal eight hour laws and their ex- tension to comprehend all departments of government; the enactment of a law by congress for a comprehensive and generous workmen's compensation act; the enactment of legislation ex- cluding from interstate commerce the products of convict labor; government ownership of the telephone and tele- graph and the creation and mainten- ance of bureau of safety under the department of labor.
 Petitions were also presented by speakers for civil service for all gov ernment employees.
 committee from conference oi negro delegates and others wanted z plank inserted in the platform pledg- ing the party to enact legislation tC equalize their rights in all the state. and in the electoral college.
 Former governor Foss of Massachu- setts. headed a committee that asked for a national prohibition plank
 Representatives of foreign languag, newspapers of Chicago, various reor, ganiZations of Polish. Bohemian, Jew ish, Swedish and other foreign speak CTS organizations and the immigran protective league asked that the com mittee declare against any further restriction of immigration laws an, against the physical tests
 The American Jewish congress asso ciaticn and allied Jewish organization asked that the committee adopt
 rlank declaring that whatever the | :. can legitimately do to attain peac