The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-20
WOMEN WANT
 INDUSTRY RIGHTS
G. o. P. Auxiliary Committee Announces Its Platform
 In Washington.

Washington. Dec. 20-A platform of reconstruction for women in in- dustry was announced yesterday af- ternoon at the first open session of the Republican Women's National Execu- tive Committee.
 Mrs Medill Mccormick, chairman of the committee, presided at the meeting, which was attended by the best known Republican women in Washington, among them Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Mrs. John Hays Hamond and Miss Hannah J. Patterson.
 The platform contains thorough going policy on women and children in industry for the reconstruction per- iod and for years to come:
 "A wage which will insure health, education, leisure and recreation to the citizenship of the United States.
 "The abolition of child labor up to 16 years.
 Compulsory education up to 16 years.
 Absolute prohibition of night work for women.
 "Eight-hour day for women.
 Equal pay for equal work. Social insurance covering these three points: Health insurance, old 1 age pension and unemployment in- surance.
 Equal opportunity for men and women in trade and technical train- | ing.
 Immediate action by Congress to | appoint a commission to create Fed 1 eral work in case the ordinary in- | dustries do not consume the produc- tion capacity of the people. Such work might include putting the land into condition for such of the soldiers and sailors as desire to go to the land and work on the Mississippi levees, in order that the soldiers may go to the land under Federal protection not subject to exploitation of individuals" :" Speakers for the afternoon, besides Mrs. Mccormick, were Mrs. Raymond Robins, international president of the Womans Trade Union League and a member of the Republican woman's S committee, and Mrs. Arthur Ryerson, of Chicago, who recently returned from France, where she was engaged in work for the American fund for French wounded.
 I've cannot give out our program" said Mrs. Robins, "until the women of the country have spoken. This Re- publican Womens National Executive Committee is definitely asking the CO., operation of every thoughtful far-see- ing Republican woman in the country
 to help us work out a program for social and industrial reconstruction. Tt is needless here to say that we find ourselves in one of the great crises of our national life. How inn portant it is for women of the coun- : try to act is proved by the decision
 taken by the National War Labor Board in summarily dismissing 15C = women conductors of the Cleveland Street Railway at the request of mer | who even went out on strike to secure their demands.
 "As a result of the protest of thC
 organized working women of tht country the National War Labo Board reopened the case last Friday ''These women conductors in Cleve . land were not displacing any returned soldiers. The men who asked fo .. their dismissal were the men wh ! had secured better paying work il
 the war industries. One hundred ant
 twenty-five of the women are tn
 wives or sisters of soldiers and hay
 dependents"
 Last week the members of the Ma
 tional Women's Trade Union Leagu
 sent requests to the chairmen of tn
 women's committees of the Republi
 can and Democratic parties, askin a them to help in the appeal of tn Il women in Cleveland. The Democrat women have not yet given out an = reply in the matter l. Mrs. Ryerson described her wor n in France and interpreted the feeIin a that the French have for the Unite S States.
 q Three seats on the New York Stoc
 Exchange were sold. One brough 0 $63, 900 and another $65, ,OO0 compare d with the last sale of $60.000.