Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-03
BRITISH FEMINIST
ASKS AID IN FIGHT
Miss Dorothy Evans Confers
With Woman's Party Lead
( ers, Urging Big Farley.

Enthusiastic over the progress mad5
by the National Woman's Party on be
half of American women, Miss Dorothy
Evans of London spent yeste- .ay con
ferring with prominent local fcminists
and soliciting their support in helpln:
her oh. Ain more complete equal rights
for English women and also lay the
groundwork for an international fem
mist movement.
Miss Evans will leave Washington
tonight on the Equal Rights Special.
which is bound for Colorado Springs,
wher- the national convention of the
Woman's Party will convene Thursday
TO continue until Sunday. The prln'
opal business of the convention will be
tao launching of an intensive nation
vide campaign for the immediate
Passages of the equal rights amend
ment sponsored by the party. with
Miss Evans as an outstanding speaker.
Deemed Practical Venture.
international action granting sui
frage and equal rights to women is a
decidedly practical venture in the opin-
of Miss Evans. She declares that
womer of more than a score of nations
Pre- appealing to both America and
England for assistance in their battles
for recognition. She says that no time
should be lost in arranging for an IN
ternational conference which will dis
pose of this vital question satistac-
torily.
while England is credited with
having given her women the vote, the
situation is far from satisfactory,
Miss Evans declared last night. "A
woman cannot vote in England until
al then
there are restrictions.
"At the present time action threat
ems which would place working women
in the same class with minors. Nat
urally we resent this discrimination
and will not be content until the SIT
uation has been remedied.'
Will Be Entertained.
Miss Evans is a member of the
English delegation to the convention
headed by Lady Rhondda and Mrs.
f. Pethick- Lawrence and has brought
requests from feminists in % Euro
pean countries for the Woman'S Party
Of the United States to cooperate with
foreign groups in their program for
the advancement of women through
out the world. She is prominent in
the equal rights movement in Great
in England and other European coun-
tries. She is a member of the Inter.
national Advisory Council of the Ma
tienal Woman's Party consisting Of
81 women from % countries.
Miss Evans and delegates Of the
party from Eastern States will be en-
tertained by the local branch this
afternoon at a meeting and garden
party starting at $3.50 o'clock, at the
headquarters Of the Women's Party
on Capitol Hill. The meeting today
will be presided over by Mrs. Harvey
Wiley. while Miss Evans will be the
principal speaker. Her subject will
be international Aspects of the Fem
mist Movement"
Schedule of Special.
other speakers at the tea include
Mrs. Harry Williams Of Baltimore.
talking on Disabilities of Farm
Women; Mrs. Isaac Dixon of Mary
land, chairman of the Farm Women's
Council Of the Woman's Party: Mrs.
Mary Murray Of Brooklyn. n. Y,
dealing with the effects of "protec-
tive legislation" on women workers;
Mrs. Florence Bayard Hilles Of Will;
mington. DEL, member of the national
council: Mrs. Frances G. Roberts of
New York City, who will speak on
equal rights from the standpoint of
a worker as well as an executive, and
Miss Vivian Simpson, who will deliver
a message of goodwill to the dele.
gates as they leave the headquarters
to board the convention-bound train.
The equal rights special" will
make short stops in Chicago, Kansas
City, Topeka and Denver. The dele
cation which is leaving tonight will
be entertained in Chicago at din
ner given by the Illinois branch in
the new Illinois Women's Athletic
Club tomorrow, and at Kansas City
they will be luncheon guests Of the
Missouri branch. In Topeka and
Denver they will be entertained by
. local groups.