Evening star., 1939-12-17
Plans Made 10 Push
Amendments Givinq
Women Equal Rights
Resolution Adopted
At Conference Here
Of Feminine Leaders

Plans to push an immediate cam
paign for constitutional amend
ment protecting women from dis
criminatory laws were made here
yesterday by the National Woman's
Party at its biennial conference at
the Alva Belmont House.
The resolution adopted by the
conference of feminine leaders from
all over the country asserted. that
"in Federal and State legislation
there is a growing tendency to enact
laws to eliminate women from gain
full employment"
1t was declared that "such legis-
lation is violative Of the priclples
of equal opportunity on which this
Government was founded and denies
to women protection Of the personal
liberty and rights which all men
enjoy under the Constitution"
Held Only Permanent Remedy.
The resolution added: whereas
a constitutional amendment offers
the only permanent remedy for these
abuses, and
"Whereas women are daily being
thrown out of employment as re-
suit of discriminatory laws based
on sex or marital status, while the
equal rights amendment slumbers
in the judiciary committee OF both
houses of Congress-
1t was resolved, that the con-
ference demanded "as matter OF
simple Justice to the women citizens
Of the United States that the equal
rights amendment be reported out
Immediately to both houses of Con-
gress and by them submitted to the
people of the country for ratiflca-
ton"
The resolution was a high light
of the closing session of the con-
ference, which opened Friday night
with dinner at the Cosmos Club.
Mrs. Mesta Speaks.
In an address at the closing ses-
sion, Mrs. George Mesta, Republican
national committeewoman for Okla
homa, said:
This organization is dedicated to
the belief that men and women
equally, are entitled to life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness in
their own way under conditions i'm
pairing neither to the advantage OF
the other.
The world is now so closely knit
that it is no longer possible for any
movement which concerns women
all over the world to selfishly work
in their own country without con-
sidering the world as a whole. A
bad condition for women in any
country is apt to spread and affect
women in all other countries. II
has a tendency to affect right
thinking people. Also, on the other
hand, the advance for women in one
country favorably affects all other
countries in that direction"
Mrs. Mesta described the world
headquarters of the Woman's party
on Lake Geneva, Switzerland.
Mrs. Greathouse Presides.
Mrs. Rebekah Scandrett Great.
house, recording secretary of the
National Woman's party, presided
at the morning session yesterday, al
which the theme was Progress ir
the States"
Mrs. Edith Bartlett Conway
chairman of the party's Massachu.
sets branch, spoke on the recent
veto by the Supreme Court of hel
State OF economic discrimination
against married women.
The fight to restrict women goe
on" she added, "but this flagran
attempt to penalize both women ant
marriage pointed out the necessit,
of constitutional guarantee of tn
rights of women citizens, more elo
quently and dramatically than "
could possibly have done"
Mrs. Conway referred to the de
cision prohibiting the barring c