RESOLUTIONS SENT FORWARD FOR DISCUSSION AT THE DOMINION CONVENTION

White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 379, 18 February 1927, Page 2

RESOLUTIONS SENT FORWARD FOR DISCUSSION AT THE DOMINION CONVENTION

These resolutions are printed hr-tv so that all Unions may have an opportunity of discussing them and instructing their delegates how to vote. 1. That Convention consider the advisability of urging the establishment of Domestic Courts where separation, Affiliation, Maintenance, and kindred cases may be heard. (From Wellington Central; Masterton and Grey town forward similar remits). 2. That a Dominion Compulsory Superannuation scheme should be inaugurated. Maximum allowance, £3OO for married people, 1150 (single.) (From Southland District Convention. > 3. That motor drivers convicted of being under the influence of liquor when driving, haw a Prohibition Order issued against them, and that for further offences their licenses be cancelled for a period of 12 months. (Southland District Convention.) 4. That a stricter Censorship of pictures shown io young people be exercised. (Southland District Convention.) 5. That Women Police should be employed. (From several Unions.) 6. That steps be taken by Conference, or other means, to ensure closer co-operation between teachers and the members of, and sympathisers with tlie League of Nations Union. 7. That the time has come when there should he a free gallery for women at the Parliamentary Buildings. At present, a woman has to ask as a favour that an M.P. will let her have a ticket, w’hile men have a free gallery. 8. It is advisable the members of the W.C.T.U. stand for appointment on all Public bodies whose work affects women and children. 9. That we re-affirm our demand fo. Women Police and Women on Juries. 10. That we re-aflirm our demand for a two-issue ballot paper. 11. That the members of the W.C.T.U. view with alarm any proposal to require boys of 18 to spend months in a Military Camp, and they would strongly protest against the boys at their most critical aß e being compulsorily taken from the.r homes, and for three months exposed

to the spirit of war and the moral dangers of a military Camp. (Southland District Convention.) 12. That the Government be urged to introduce legislation providing for the establishment of separate institutions for the two classes of children now in our Industrial Schools, so that those young people who are committed only on account of the inability of their parents to support them, should not lie under the suspicion of being incorrigible or of possessing criminal tendencies. (Duned’n Union.* 13. That this Convention is of the opinion that Mental Hospitals should be placed under Public Hoards of Management. (Canterbury Provincial Convention.) 14. That in any future issue of pledge books the word “a* a beverage” be omitted from the pledge. (Canterbury Provincial Convention.)

15. That remits for discussion at the Annual Dominion Convention be circulated to the District Unions early in February, or be printed in February issue of the ‘‘White Ribbon.”