The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-28
nv rREDERIcK J. HAsKrN

WASf1lNlT EONs IL 0sb EOSt. Co
With one great legislative victory
the passing of the Cable law making
a woman's citizenship a thing indie.
pendent of her marriage National
League of Women Voters will take
up as its next objective an adoption
of an amendment to the constitution
forbidding child labor. The announce
ment of the campaign, to begin in ear
est this winter while AZ state legisla'
lures are in session, has been made
by Mrs. Maud Wood Park, president
of the league.
Ever since the existing child-labor
laws were declared unconstitutional
by the supreme court, there has been
a widespread sentiment in the country
in favor Of writing into the constitu'
ton itself provision for the protection
of children from the exploitation OF
factory owners But though the moral
support of the public has been present,
the movement for a constitutional
amendment has lacked an organization
to crusade for it. Constitutional amend
ments nowadays are put across by or
ganized effort, as the members of the
National League of Women Voters arc
aware, they themselves having con-
stituted the bulk of the non-militant
equal suffrage organization which
shared in the successful crusade to
give women the ballot With its five
million members, the league is looking
forward to a busy winter as it opens
the campaign for a child-labor amend
ment.
There are five resolutions now pend.
,1e aIo n.
ing for a child-labor amendment to be
submitted to the states for ratifica.
ton. The National League of Women
Voters has not yet endorsed any one
of these. All are being studied, and
eventually the league will either gel
behind one of them, or have a new one
drawn and introduced in congress as
a resolution. Meanwhile campaign
will be started throughout the United
States in favor of such an amend
ment. With all but two of the state
legislatures in session, the attemp'
will be made to deluge congress with
resolutions adopted by these legisla
lures in favor of child-labor amend
ment. In addition, the women viii
work directly upon congress with petit
lions and in COMMITTEE hearings il
Washington.
The women expect to secure this
adoption of such an amendment anc
that at no remote date in the future
Their attitude toward the successful
outcome of their newest campaign Is
something more than one of conf
dence. 1t is a complete assurance o
victory. As one of the general officer.
expressed 1t: ANY reasonable thing
that the women of America want o
congress they can get.
No Other Issue
More Important.
The announcement that the League
would take up the campaign for
child-labeT amendment came after Mrs
Park and other officers of the organi
cation had made a thorough tour o
the country sounding out the sent
ment OF the women voters. It is evl
dent that the women of the countr,
place no national issue ahead of TIL
protection of factory children.
While awaiting the adoption OF
federal amendment, the members O
the league intend TO see to it that al
existing state child-labor laws are en-
forced. Many of the states alread
have laws forbidding the commercial
employment of children of tende
years. In states which have no iegis
lation of the sort that the league cor
siders adequate, the women viii wor
for the adoption of additional laws.
The League for Women Voters is tn
natural outgrowth of the suffrage Of
ganization which for so many year
battled for the ballot Now. having Sc
cured the vote, the organized wome
of the country are going ahead to 81
cure the legislative reforms which tn
vote enables them TO demand and oil
tain. The league. however. is by n
means made up entirely of the origius
suffragists. Many Of the preser
leaders were among the "antfs" du
ing the old suffrage fight These 70
mer "anti's", as Wen as the suffrag
themselves. agree that, women havin
cut THIS QUIT Is WORTH NONE
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