Evening star., 1933-06-26
WOMEN'S RIGHTS
MENACE IS SEEN.
Miss Paul Sees Sex Dropping
Back to Former Eco
n0mic Status.
~ the Associated Press.

Women are being forced by the pres
ent economic situation back to the po-
sition they occupied before adoption of
the equal rights amendment, in the
opinion of Miss Alice Paul, who on
July will lead a large delegation of
women to the White House to plead
for economic equality" Miss Paul, in
the Wilson administration. led the
marching militants on the White House
for suffrage
I'VE are facing a situation where we
are in danger Of having our gains taken
from u.s." said Miss Paul today. In
Europe, as competition became keener
and keener. I've seen it happen before
my eyes-women dropping first from
political positions, then from profess
sional fields
The same thing is happening here.
We are being forced back to the posi-
ton where we were before emancipa-
ton People won't send their daugh-
ters to school If no positions are open
to thcm. They will disappear from the
colleges and the professional world"
Wants Equal Rights Amendment.
What Miss Paul wants is enactment
OF the equal rights amendment supported
by her teministic group, the National
Woman'S Party 1t would make legal
determinations based on sex unconsti-
tutional
"One State. Delaware, has that
amendment written into its Constitu-
ton" she said ITO show what a safe
guard it proved to womankind. three
measures against employment of mar
ried women were brought up in that
State this year and all had to retire
Immediately because they were uncon-
stitutioral."
Miss Paul pronounced endless" the
task of taking up cudgelS in defense OF
married women workers. But putting
equal rights into the Constitution would
remove all the little handicaps," she
said
A little more militancy. she said, was
one way of getting results on the femi-
nine economic front.
THE more we hold banners, the more
we make ourselves impressive" she said.
"But banners are only important be-
cause they are backed up by votes"
Urges Women to Elect.
She also urged election of more
feministic- minded women to public Of
flee.
I'VE have never had in our Congress
a woman put in by women" she said.
"In England, women have worked to-
Rether. They have backed both Lady
Astor, a Conservative, and Mrs. Corbett
Ashby. a Liberal because they knew
that if a feministic matter came up,
they would be for it. American Women's
clubs seem satisfied to seek culture"
However Miss Paul says she expects
to live to see an equal rights amend
ment in the Constitution and an equal
rights treaty accepted by the nations
of the world.
Miss Paul, following publication Of
letter from President Roosevelt to Gov.
Horner of Illinois. in support of the
minimum wage law for women pending
in the Illinois Legislature, today issued
q statement of protest on behalf OF the
National Woman's Party.
The right of women to support
themselves is threatened by the en-
actment of legislation regulating the
labor Of women such as is now pending
before the Illinois Legislature. Six
States have already passed minimum
wage laws for women during the past
year, New York, New Jersey, New
Hampshire, Ohio, Connecticut and
Utah.
Again Be "SIave Class"
Forced to depend upon men for
came a slave class. These minimum
wage laws for women only, through
which States are taking the control OF
their own lives out of women's hands
and legislating for them as for chill
dren, are part of widespread move
ment to eliminate women as competi-
tors of men in the present desperate
economic struggle.
Senator Bratton of New Mexico
stated to a delegation of women only
q few weeks ago that within 10 years
there would be no women employed
under national, State, or local Gov
ernmentS.
Women who have held wel-paid
political or semi-political positions are
now being dismissed in order that the
Jobs may 60 to men. Why is 1t that
the men can get them? Because men
are organized politically and constantly
ready to act politically in each others
interest Women have been Supine."