NAWSA Subject File National League of Women Voters Convention - 1930 - program change PROGRAM CHANGES RECOMMENDED BY THE COMMITTEE ON WOMEN IN INDUSTRY Under "Recommended for Study": 2. In first sub-head insert and technological before the last word. 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th subheads are rephrased and transferred to the section "for support". 4. Strike out. Under "Recommended for Support": Federal. Add item 3, to read Collection of adequate employment statistics. State. Add items 7,8,9, to read as follows. (transferred from study section and rephrased.) 7. Adequate administrative machinery and appropriations for public employment services. 8. Effective regulation of private employment agencies. 9. Establishment of public systems of unemployment compensation. [*Put on study ↑*] [*9. Enactment & administration of unemployment compensation insurance acts.*] Changes in the Proposed Program of Work as recommended by Department of International Co-operation to Prevent War Under "Study" [*Adopted*] Strike out "National Ideals of Latin-America" under item 2. Put "the Philippines" on a separate line under item 2. Add "emphasizing freedom of the seas," after "interpretation of neutrality" under item 2. Under "Support" [*Adopted*] Strike out "preparatory" in the second item under 2, and replace it by "related to," and add the word "treaties" so that it will read: "International reduction of expenditures for war, and National measures directly related to such international reduction treaties." [Changes in the Proposed Program of Work as recommended by Department of International Cooperation to Prevent War Under "Study" Strike out "National ideals of Latin - America" under item 2. Strike out "International economic co-operation" under item 5. Under "Support" Add the word "treaties" to the second item under 2 so that it will read: "International reduction of expenditures for war, and National measures directly related [preparatory] to such international reduction treaties".] Recommended Program From Committee on Social Hygiene. Women voters are concerned with provision by government for proper measures relating to social hygiene. Recommended for study 1. Preventive social measures and administration of Adopted justice as they relate to sex offenders. a. The laws. b. The police department. c. The district attorney's office. d. The criminal courts. e. The probation office. f. Corrective institutions. 2. The relation of Social Hygiene to the prevention of delinquency including the work of visiting Adopted teachers, recreational directors, probation officers, and policewomen. Adopted 3. Sterilization of the unfit. Recommended for support 1. Vice repressive laws which provide: That those who profit by the business of Adopted prostitution shall be punished and places used for prostitution closed. That men and women sex offenders shall be held equally responsible. Adopted 2. The Ouster Law, providing for the removal of any official who neglects or refuses to enforce the law. 3. The permanent establishment of women's bureaus Adopted in city police departments and the appointment of properly trained and qualified policewomen in all communities, with all the necessary facilities for their work. Adopted 4. Establishment of open clinics, as well as hospital facilities, for venereally infected men and women. 5. Adequate appropriations for state and local [city] health Adopted departments for carrying on broad venereal disease control programs. Approved Note-The authorities should not be empowered to compel persons suspected of sex offenses to undergo examination for venereal disease before conviction nor have the power to order periodical examination of women prostitutes Changes in the Proposed Program of Work as recommended by the COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION Under the section "for study" [*Approved*] Item 6 amended to read: 6. Text books a. Free distribution b. Agency for selection Under the section "for support" Item 2 e amended to read: 2 e. Systematic education for adults, including illiterates and foreign born, through public school extension classes with English the basic language. Changes in Proposed Program Committee on the Legal Status of Women as reported from Executive Meeting of the Committee Under "Support" Strike out 2a (3) Equal interest of spouses in each other's real estate. Add as a footnote Note: "Blanket" methods of legislation are disapproved. Changes in the Proposed Program of work as recommended by the Special Committee on Immigration Problems Recommended for Study Immigration 1. A brief preliminary view of Immigration in the United States 2. Present immigration laws. a. Selective tests b. Quota restrictions, National Origins Plan c. Deportation. 3. The question of a immigration policy regulated by a Federal board. 4. Immigration measures in Congress. 5. State laws bearing on the alien. a. Disabilities of aliens. b. Pensions for widows of aliens. c. State aid for adult education. 6. Present tide of immigration; the foreign born in the community. a. Education of adult aliens. Naturalization 7. Present naturalization laws. 8. Naturalization proposals in Congress. [9. State Laws on requirements for voters.] The Special Committee on Immigration Problems states its accord with the Committee on the Legal Status of Women, which recommends for support- 1. Federal The removal of discrimination against women in immigration and naturalization laws. It also states its accord with the Committee on Education, which recommends for support State 2. e. Systematic education for adult illiterates and foreign born through public school extension classes with English the basic language. Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.