Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-10-28

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.-With
great legislative victory-the
passing of the Gable Law making
a woman's citizenship b thing indie
pendent of her marriage-the Ma
tional League of Women Voters
will take up as its next objec-
tive an adoption of an amendment
to the constitution forbidding chtId
labor. The announcement of the
campaign, to begin in earnest this
winter while forty-two state legis-
latures 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
constitution itself a provision for
the protection of children from the
exploitation of factory owners. Bat
though the moral support of the
public has been present, the move
ment for a constitutional amend
ment has lacked an organization to
crusade for it. Constitutional
amendments nowadays are put
across by organized effort, as n
members of the National League of
Women Voters are well aware. they
themselves having constituted the
bulk of the non-militant equal SUI
frage organization which shared IN
the successful crusade to give wom-
en- the ballot. With its five million
members, the league is looking for
ward to a busy winter as it opers
the campaign for a chlld-labol
amendment.
There are five resolutions now
pending before Congress, each n
providing for a child-labor amend
ment to be submitted to the states
League of Women Voters has not
vet endorsed any one of these. All
are being studied, and eventually
the league will either get behind
one of them. or have a new n
drawn and introduced In congress
as a resolution. Meanwhile a cam
paign will be started throughout the
United States in favor Of such an
amendment. With all but W of
the state legislatures in session, the
attempt will be made to deluge con-
gress with resolutions adopted by
these legislatures in favor of a
child-labor amendment. In addition
the women will work directly upon
congress with petitions and in COM
mittee hearings in Washington.
The women expect 10 secure the
adoption of such an amendment
and hat at no remote date in the
future. Their attitude toward the
successful outcome of their newest
campaign is something more than
one of confidence. it is complete
| assurance of victory. AS n of
- a.o~J 4pGoarc avnraSCad it.
ANY reasonable thing that the
women of America want of coz
gress they a get"
No Other Issue More Important
The announcement that the
league would take up, the campaign
for a chiId-labor amendment cam.
after Mrs. Park and other officers
Of the organization had made 1;
thorough tour of the country sound
ing out the sentiment of the wonl-
en- voters. 1t is evident h a the
women of the country place no ma
tional issue ahead of the protection
of factory children.
While awaiting the adoption u
a federal amendment. the members
of the league intend to see to II
that all existing state child-labcr
Ia WS dAC CA1OANSo' "oAy VI hAN
states already have avs forbidding
the commercial employment of chill
dren of tender years. In states
which have no legislation of the
sort that the league considers ade-
quate, the women will work for
the adoption of additional laws.
The League for Women Voters is
the natural outgrowth of the suf-
frage organization which for so
many years battled for the ballot
Now, having secured the vote. the
organized women of the country are
going ahead to ecure the legisla-
tive reforms which the vote enables
them to demand and obtain. The
league, however, is by no means
made up entirely of the original suf-
~fragists. Many of the present lead
ers were among the "antfs' dur
ing the old suffrage fight. These
former "anti's" as well as the suf'
fragists themselves. agree that
women now having votes, the mex
important thing is to educate then
to vote intelligently and thus con
found the former male "anti's whC
held, openly or not. hat womev
do not know enough to vote.
In being educated In politics
|, 1t NAV he said that hundreds o
thousands of American women ar,
having a splendid time. 1t has al