Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1919-07-05

N"'Co 1oI OlIlcc. anu Tie educating OIL NOleTS
upon the subject of voting and good citizen
ship.
In Stockholm the greatest number of
women town councillors elected belong to the
Liberal party, compared with the number
of representatives of this party. Regarding
the Stockholm elections the results are now
exactly known. Fifty per cent of all
women voters have made use Of their rights
there, which, considering the fact that most
OF these women were entitled to vote for
the first time, and thus were very little pre-
pared to take part in public matters, must
be regarded as a very fair result. Fifteen
women are now town councillors in Stock
holm. Of these, one Liberal two COnserva-
tives, and two Socialists have been re-
turned: thus there are ten new women
members.
In the course of speech before the
Woman's City Club Of Boston recently,
Charles Pergler commissioner of the Czecho-
Slovak Republic in the United States, made
this interesting statements "In Czech
political history of the nineteenth century
women came into their own. Although sur
rounded almost wholly by Germans, whose
respect for womanhood is not the highest,
we never accept the German view. Political
equality for women became very early an
axiom among Czech statesmen AMI in Czech
public life The Czech political parties
some years ago determined to see to it that
if it was within their power representa-
tive of Czech womanhood should occupy a
seat in the Diet of the Bohemian kingdom.
The well-known author, Bozena Vikova
kuneticka was duly elected. The Austrian
government refused to permit Mrs. kune-
ticka to take her seat. But when Austria
Hungary was dissolved, and the new indie
pendent Czech-Slovak Republic erected,
Mrs Kuneticka took her seat, and is now a
member of the National Assembly of the
Czecho-Slovak Republic"
Delegates from twenty States have said
they will attend the tenth anniversary con-
ference of the National Association for the
Advancement of COlored People, represent
ing 100000 members, which will be held in
Cleveland from June 81 to June %. The
Southern representatives include Louisiana,
Texas, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Virginia,
Tennessee, North Carolina and South Caro-
lima
Edmond Turner, representing the Black
smiths, Boiermakers and Machinists' Help
ers of Mobile, Alabama, presented a resolu-
ton to the convention of the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor, as follows: "Resolved,
That the annual convention Of the A. F.
OIL IL. give Uuo executive DOdIU authority "
appoint colored organizer for the southern
district of Alabama. The colored organizer
shall work in the interest Of labor at all
times Turner tells vivid story Of how
the Ku-Klux Khan ran Ralph Clemens, who
was organizing the helpers, out Of Mobile
in the dead of night Clemens is still in
New Orleans because the power of the fed
GRAFTON is not strong enough to protect him
in Mobile.
Serious race riots, occasioned by the
presence of Negroes brought to Europe from
Africa and other parts Of the world during
the war as labor battalions, have occurred
at several ports in England and Wales re-
Gently They eliminated in a night-long
fight on the 18th between Negroes and
white men at Cardiff and Barry Dock. One
white man was killed and numerous whites
were wounded. Boarding houses in the
Negro quarter were stormed one Of them
set on fire and others looted. Negroes
armed with revolvers fired on the police in