The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-07
SHOCK TROOPS OF : SUFFRAGE FORCES
 ID PICKET G. O. P
Picketing Begins Tuesday Morning and Continues Indefinitely-POlite But
 Impressive Is Slogan
By Associated Press

Chicago June 6.-Polite but inn pressive picket of republican national convention was decided upon today by shock troops of the national womens s party here under the leadership or Alice Paul The picketing will start Tuesday morning and continue fndet- initely. More than hundred wom- en. representing twenty-two states and every phase of 1omens activities ali carrying banners, bearing the names of their states and sIogans, will occupy positions outside the Coliseum. Other women will work among delegates from their states in the ~rious state headquarters. Verbal heekling has no place on the programme.
 Every effort of the suffragists, Miss Paul said today will be carried to- ward inducing national leaders to urge the governors of Connectieut and Yer mont to call special sessions of tac legislatures in their states and pass on suffrage. The legislatures, Miss Paul insists, are ready to 'atify the sui frage amendment if ;he governors will call the special sessions. None of the suffragists is paying any attention at present to the wording oi proposed suffrage blanks in the republican plat form. They hope for strong indorse- mcnt of their cause as d collateral move, but they insist taat the time IS past for platform declarations to be of much assistance to them
 Direct action of anti-suffrage gov ernors is the short cut to a solution of the entire suffrage problem, it is declared.
 SUFF HEADQUARTERS HUM
 Suffrage headquarters---a little shop directly across Wabash avenue from the Coliseum, nestled away among half a dozen billboards advertising everything from shaving soap to auto mobile accessories-presente a busy scene today. The room is smaller than a sleeping car and, with scores of banners bundles of literature and press statements scattered about. bad ly crowded. Even the small advance guard of workers that is here today has to hold some of It's overflow meetings on the sidewalk, or in an adjoining building, and when the complete dele gations arrive tomorrow standing room on the sidewalk in front promises to be at a premium.
 Attempts to cover the smoke -coa led headquarters with suffrage banners is futile. They show the way to the workers, but the scenic effect that the front of the building presents Is not we-inspfring.
 TWO suffrage pioneers, the Rev Olympia Brown of Wisconsin, and Mrs Anna Kendall of Alabama. both over seventy years old, will head the picket line. Their banners will be inscribed with the words. How long must wom- men wait for liberty?'
 THE MAIN BANNER
 The principal banner to be carried bears the following:
 We protest against the continued disfranchlsement of women.
 For which the republican party has become responsible.
 The republican party defeated rat ification in Delaware.
 "The republican party is blocking ratification in Vermont.
 "The republican party is blocking ratification in Connecticut.
 When will the republican party stop blocking suffrage?"
 A second banner reads:
 Republicans: 20.0o0.00 unenfran-
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