Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-04
WOMAN LABOR|TES
CONTINUE BATTLE
Feminine Leaders Of British
Party Follow Up Victory
Won at Polls.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, August 3.-Labor party
women in England, not content with
having used their found suffrage
to such good advantage to their party
in the May election, are diving with
renewed earnestness into the work that
their success at the polls has left fol-
them.
An efficient organization of women
within the party that worked day and
night during the campaign Is left over
to continue the rather more prosaic
task Of helping to carry out the party
promises.
DR.. Phillips Leads Army"
The women are n1arshaled under tbs
chief woman officer of the Labor party
Dr. Marion Phillips, M. p from Sunder-
land, who, besides representing her con-
stituency in Parliament, finds time to
edit monthly magazine for women
Laborites, organize wonnen's local Sec
tions and mother parliamentary legis-
lation Of interest to women.
Labor's proposals for world peace
with the projected visit of Prime Min
lister Macdonald to Washington in the
Fall, has the heartiest support Of all
the feminine Laborites. Leaders of the
party organizat ton admit that the
concentration of English f1appers
at the polls on the possibility of a war;
less future has been one of the greatest
factors in arotlsing public opinion to
the support of international peace.
Crusade Continues.
Thought the standing Joint commit
tee of industrial women's organizations,
which comprises representatives from
the Labor party, the Trades Union
Congress, the Cooperative Union. the
Cooperative Guilds and other labor
organizations, the women of the party
are represented on the women's peace
crusade. A month before the election
the crusade held an all-party demon
stration for the return Of Parliament
of peacemakers.
The crusade Is continuing its work
through the normal channels Of inter-
election times. drawing the line at nc
party, no group, no creed. Beside the
Labor women who are cooperating
With the international movement are
the British Federation of Youth, Ethi-
cal Union. Jewish Peace Society, Ma
tional Union of Teachers, Society OF
Friends and the Young Women's Chris
tan Association. The British organi-
cation co-operates with the American
Conference for the Cause and Cure OF
War, which has had long life In the
United States under the leadership OF
Carrie Chapman Gait.
Annual Farley Is Sponsored.
Leaders of the women's section OF
the Labor party sponsor an annual
conference of Labor women who NEE,
to plan the years program of education
Following this conference. local group;
organize their own meetings and con-
duct classes for working women on the
functions of Parliament, the progress
of legislation and other general politi-
cal questions, in addition to questions
relating especially to women. such al
maternity classes, child welfare discus
sions and courses in family hygiene.
DR.. Phillips already has received APP
plication from 5000 representatives who
plan to attend the conference next
Spring, and one of her greatest worries
is to find a hall in London that will &C.
commodate the 1880 confereeS.
Now that the rush of campaign liter
allure is over and the victorious Labor
candidates are safely ensconced in thu
House of Commons. the editorial d.
vision of the party is publishing Sc
ries of particular interest to working
women. These publications deal pri-
marily with subjects on which there
have been queries from the women
themselves.