y voting, working and
manoeuvering against the proposed 19th Amendment to the Federal
Constitution, be it Resolved, That we, representing the enfranchised
women of the country, extend to the women of New York our appreciation
and our help in their patriotic work of determining to send to the U.
S. Senate to succeed the said James W. Wadsworth, Jr., a modern-minded
Senator who will be capable of comprehending the great American
principles of freedom and democracy.

Before the convention opened there were eight conferences followed by
dinners presided over by the chairmen of the departments. The voting
members of each conference were the chairman and forty-eight State
members and representatives of other agencies doing the same work. The
purpose of each conference was to formulate a legislative program
combining the best judgment and experience of all workers for the same
cause. This program was presented to the convention of the League of
Women Voters for its consideration and after adoption it became the
platform to which the league was pledged. These conferences were open
to visitors without speaking or voting privileges.

The program as submitted by the chairmen, approved by the conferences
and amended and adopted by the convention was as follows: Women in
Industry, Mrs. Raymond Robins; recommendations presented by Miss Grace
Abbott (Ills.):

I. We affirm our belief in the right of the workers to bargain
collectively through trade unions and we regard the organization
of working women as especially important because of the peculiar
handicaps from which they suffer in the labor market.

II. We call attention to the fact that it is still necessary for
us to urge that wages should be paid on the basis of occupation
and not on sex.

III. We recommend to Congress and the Federal Government: 1. The
establishment in the U. S. Department of Labor of a permanent
Women's Bureau with a woman as chief and an appropriation
adequate for the investigation of all matters pertaining to wage
earning women and the determination of standards and policies
which will promote their welfare, improve their working
conditions and increase their efficiency. 2. The appointment of
women in the Mediation and Conciliation Service of the U. S.
Department of Labor and on any industrial commission or tribunal
which may hereafter be created. 3. The establishment