The labor standard., 1919-05-15
MARY MACARTHUR WILL ADDRESS
 HARTFORD AUDIENCE
The Well-Knowr English Uplift Worker Will Speak at Parsons Theatre Under Auspices of the American Labor Party

HARTFORD-Mary Macarthur of England, widow of the late William C.. Anderson, who will speak at Par sons Theatre on Sunday afternoon, June 8, under the auspices of the American Labor Party, is in this country for the purpose of studying economic and social conditions. An outline of her activities in uplift work is as follows: Founder and honorary secretary of the National Federation of Women Workers of England; sec League; chairman of Standing Joint Committee of Industrial Women's Organizations; the only woman in England appointed to the Munitions Supply Committee.
 She was the first woman in England to be officially adopted as candidate for Parliament, being endorsed by the National Executive Committee of the Labor Party,-being defeated by only a small majority and beat the third candidate by nearly thousand votes. She has announced her intention of standing again at the next general election and the present swing of pub lie opinion promises assurity of elect ing her.
 She has also edited The Woman Worker and has written many articles for English periodicals and news papers.
 In England she is in great demand as speaker and is only able to accept a small number of the invitations ex- tended to her.
 She has been still further bound to the Labor movement through the sympathies and activities of her hus- band, the late William c. Anderson, M. F., who was the Labor representa- tive from Atterc1iffe Division, Shef- field, since 1914, and for three years was chairman of the Independent Labor Party. MT. Anderson presided over the conference of the Labor party at Bristol in 1916, held during the war. MT. Anderson was generally liamentarians and debaters in all England.
 Mary MacArthur was also chair man of the Women's Trades Union Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Munitions; honorary secretary of the Central Committee of Women's Employment to the Local Government Board. At the outbreak of the war she organized the administrative side of the Queens Work for Women Fund, and was. appointed by the Prince of Wales on the advice of the then prime minister, MT. Asquith. She was also a member of the Prince of Wales National Relief Fund Com mittee.
 The coming to Hartford of Mary MacArthur is looked forward to with pleasurable anticipation by hundreds of people who know of her ability and great work along economic lines. of court committed elsewhere than in the presence of the court.
 20. No law to be declared by the Supreme Court unconstitutional un- less three-fourths of the judges so decide.
 21. All state work to be done not by contract, but directly by the state.
 22. The development of co-opera- tive trade and industry and enactment of needed legislation favorable to that purpose.
 23. Complete restoration at the earliest possible moment of all funda- mentally political rights-free speech, free press and free assemblage; the removal of all wartime restraints upon the interchange of ideas and the movement of people among communi- ties and nations; and the liberation of all persons held in prison or indicted under charges due to their champion ship of the rights of labor or their patriotic insistence upon the rights guaranteed to them by the Constitu- tion.