Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-12-30
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
UNION TO MEET
Youngest Organization Seeking
Vote for Women to Gather
at Capital.
IRIS CALDERHEAD TO LEAD
Work of Organizing Women of
State viii Be Started
January l8.

Special to The World
OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec. 29-The
congressional Union for Woman Suf-
iI'F'' the younger suffrage organiza-
''"h OF thls country, is To form an
organization IN Oklahoma planning a
great organizing conference I'm Okla
h"ina city, January IS. The Congress
sional Union stands outside state suf.
H9Ee organization in that it works
oo'cIS i"f federal work, and often
! members Of the state associations no
lohg also to this fortnight organi2a-
Ell"n which is working solely for tho
I'hlranchlsemcnt Of the women of the
H'uoh wa the Susan B. Anthony
amendment. ''''''"S
\ new era has just opened for the
congressional Union. owing to tho
lhdisputable fact thai suffrage in its
i'"u"hal aspect has become "a national
issue II was the business of the
'"uEresslohal Union during the cam
n"lth mat has just closed TO acquant
'hr voters Of the west with thcir an.
portunity in regard to standing
suffrage Tor the nation instead of for
parry In the voting states Of this
country thls small but intrepid body
or women, working simplv for a
,duSe' nade great impression in the
Iitt campaign. They forced two proat
p"Itlcal parties, one Of which was ON
record as opposed 10 the federal
amendment enfranchising women. to
make suffrage one Of the issues of the
cal meeting
Miss Iris Caldcrhead of Kansas will |
utIp 10 organize the Oklahoma con-
terence. II was >,---- "-L.a-hcad who
during the campaign which has inst
CLOSED talked for national suffrage in
every part of Arizona Miss Calder
head rs herself a voting woman being
a native of Kansas. and the daughter
or Representative Calderhead of
that state. Miss Caldcrhcad is a
graduate of the University of Kansas
ana or Byrn Mawr. she gave nm
teaching literature in a Wichita bipb
,.n. srnooi 10 tax for the federal amend
'"eht' winch she regards as the vital
which should interest every
Ihtnklng women in the country.
MISS Calderhead since her gradua-
ION mas given all of her spare time
)" suffrage work. She helped to or
'aniHc the first convention of women
voters ever held. at the Panama
ACHE exposition in California. where
me was one of the daily speakers at
~ 1T suffrage exhibit ever shown
~ a national exposition.
Miss Calderhead is a very younp
woman, but she is fun Of enthusiasm
or the cause which she regards as
he first for every woman who is alive
" the conditions which confront
women in this country today. ''\Ve
women OF the west" she says. "must
~ to put ourselves in the places of (
ne women of the great Industrial \
enters of the east These are the
women for whom we are making this
lGht FOR freedom, II is literally that
"A fight for liberation. Penned bv
he thousand in gray mills and fac.
orles, forced to work for starvation O
wages these women are powerloss to :
ht"rce humane legislation for them
ewes and powerless to give the time
nr the battle for political equality
We nave got To- make this fight for
hem thru the national amendment
Is impossible to enfranchise the
'omen OF the interest-ridden east in
NY other way ri
Miss Caldcrhead will travel thru ,e
ne state. assisted by women in every
art of Oklahoma. ~