The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-02-09
CONGRESSIONAL UNION
PLANS BIG MEETING
Younger Will he Principal
Speakers.
SUNDAY AFTERNOON At $3.50
Militant Branch of Suffrage Move
ment Expects to Make academy
Meeting a Red-Letter Event-Mrs
sophie G. Meredith 10 Preside.

In the Academy. Of Music sunday
afternoon. February II, at 800
o'clock, two prominent suffrage lead
ers will address the public. Miss Anne
Martin, chairman of the National Wo-
mans party. and Miss Maud Younger.
head OF the suffrage lobby maintain
ed at the Capitol by the Congressional
Union for Woman Suffrage will eX-
plain the work which the Congress
sional union liz doing to expedite the
passage of the federal suffrage amend
ment The meeting will be held under
of the Congressional union. Mrs
Sophie q. Meredith. stste hartman
for Virginia. presiding.
number Of prominen' Richmond
people will sit on the stage They
include: Rev. Frank Pratt. Rev DR.
Il. N. Calisch. Rev. J. ! Wicker. Louis
Kracke. A. L. Amos, ]. G. Goblin, Dr.
Roy X. Flanagan. Mrs. John Mere
dith. Mrs Roy X. Flanagan, Mrs
a. 3. McCrone. Mrs. R G Hudson.
Mrs G. f. Hooker Mrs T. S Jen-
nings DR.. Helen Boisseaux of Hope
we'll: Mrs. Walter Adams, Of Norfolk:
Miss Thomas. of Petersburg. and
Mrs. Percy Reid. of HIGHLAND Springs.
The ushers will include: Miss Pattie
Pratt, Miss Hattie Gresham Miss Mar
garet O'Br1an. Miss Helen Fill. Miss
Elise Flanagan, Miss Elsie Nc
George, and Mrs. James T. Pollard.
The speakers OF the afternoon are
very prominent in suffrage work.
Born in Empire City, New. where
she is a voter. Miss Martin led the
fight which the National woman's
party waged In the twelve suffrage
states last fall. Since her graduation
from Leland Stanford university In
1898. she has been prominent In suf-
frage work, having organized the wo-
men OF Nevada In their successful
campaign in 1914
Immediately thereafter Miss Mar
tin took UP national suffrage work
and has concentrated all her ener-
gies for the past two years in work
ing for the federal suffrage amend
ment.
Miss Younger will bring 10 Rich
mond wealth OF experience acquired
by her suffrage work throughout the
country. In the California campaign
she made nearly two hundred speeches
and did active lobby work for the
amendment. She took an active part
also in the Nevada. Ohio. Michigan,
New York and Pennsylvania cam
paigns. She undertook this work
largely because OF her interest In the
working classes and her keen percep-
ton OF the value Of the ballot to the
woman wage-earner.
Five years work in the College
settlement, az well as the New York
tenement district, made her especial
~ interested In and sympathetic to
the working woman, II was during
this part OF her career that she did
actual work As a waitress In some OF
the cheap restaurants OF New York
In order that she might gather hrst-
hand information upon the every day
condition OF the women wage eArnera.
Her fndings made her more deter
mined than ever to help her sisters
secure a voice in the making OF the
laws governing their industrial condi-
ton. During the past year Miss
Younger has devoted her entire at
tenuon TO working for the FEDERAL
amendment. believing 1t 30 be the
shortest cut to the nation vide en-
fran chisement OF women.