Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-06
WOMEN ASK EQUAL
 REPRESENTATION ON
 6, Q. ?. COMMITTEE:
Fair Representation in Com ing National Convention
 Also Sought
HAYS INDICATES PARTY
 WILL GRANT REQUE EST
Republican Conference Gives New Voters Recognition Even to Hay- ing ToastmiStrcsS as We'll as
 Toastmastcr at Banquet

Chicago, Jan. B. Republican wo- men from l4 states of the midwest, conferrlng today on party plans and issues for the 1920 presidential cam paign. demanded equal representa- tion with the men on the national committee of the party and urged "a fair representation of women delegates from each state" in the national convention in June.
 Many of the women professcd to see an immediate ndorsement of their attitude in the speech which Will II. Hays, chairman of the re publican national committee, deliv- cred at a banquet which followed the conference.
 "The republican party offers the women everything we offer the men, he said. Republican women come into the party not as women, but as voters, entitled to participate and participating as other voters, they are not to be separated O, segregated but assimllatod and amalgamated'
 The women proposed in formal resolution that the coming national convention "take action to double the membership" of the national committee. so that leach state be represented by one man and ont woman member. "They urged fur ther that this become "the policy o' 1he party in all party committees both state and local.'
 Besides voicing their wish for act i've parts in the party government the women adopted ten suggested blanks for the republican platform These included recommendation 10, direct citizenship for women, not citizenship through marriage" ant ! laws making possible the naturali 2ation of married women. The wo men also favored national ant state legislation for the regulation and abolition of child labor. "An other section asked the states ant nation to establish the eight houl day and A hour week for women 1T indutsrv with statutory provision for a day or rest each week Per manent establishment of the wo mems bureau of labor as nationa omploymert service "with adequate provision for departments for wo men in national offices and all lo cal offices" and equal opportunities for women through the civil service also were sponsored.
 Other blanks were:
 Woman PIanks. A new policy by the fedora board of vocational education "to in. sure for women equal opportunitief with men in trade and technica education"
 Appointment of women mediators on all federal labor boards to dea with industries employing women.
 Compulsory education in all state' fer children between six and lf years of age with provision fol "thorough education in citizenship of all our youth
 The women's stand on all tNest questions was reflected in shor' talks which several leaders of tht conference made at tonight's ban quet. The affair was given by tho state central committee in honor ol Chairman Hays and the chairman of the women's division of the ma tiopal committee. Mrs. John Glover Smith. The speakers included two avowed aspirants for the republican presidential nomination Governor Lowden, of Illinois and Major Gen eral Wood.
 The banquet had both toastma5 ter and a toastmistress.