WHAT THE WOMEN WANT.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 252, 24 October 1893, Page 5

WHAT THE WOMEN WANT.

Dr/NEDiN.j Monday.

The Women's Franchise League Committee will submit the following for a platform for adoption :—(1) To secure justice to women by the enactment of equitable laws affecting marriage, divorce, custody of children, injury to person, and social vice ; (2) the general improvement of the social condition of women, and the more equitable adjustmonb of women's wages, together with compulsory arbitration as a means of settling industrial disputes and preventing strikes ; (3) the appointment of women on the Hospital and Charitable Aid Boards, as visitors and inspectors of Lunatic Asylums, industrial schools, and other public institutions, and employment of women as factory inspector*!, truant.officers, and on Committees affecting sanitation ; (4) the abolition of the totali sator, the enactment of more Btringent laws .for the suppression of gambling and against cruelty to animals under the nume of sport; (5) the maintenance of the present system of a free and compulsory education ; (6) to pecure the right of a majority of electors who record their votes to control or abolish the sale of alcoholic liquors as beverages; (7) to recognise no political party, but to give support to men with the best reputation for integrity of character, and who will pledge themselves to support the foregoing platfcrm.