And, now, 67 years later...the same lunatic fringe against equal treatment for 52% of America's population!
WOMEN ARGUE EQUAL RIGHTS AT CHICAGO,
THEN HEAR MAN CALL IT 'LUNATIC PROPOSAL'
CHICAGO, July 17 - More numerous, more
official and more vocal then ever before in the
history of the party, Democratic women got off
to a lively start in the pre-convention program,
in the renewal of an old feud before the reso-
lutions sub-committee this afternoon.
Mrs. Emma Guffey Miller, of Pennsylvania,
captained the advocates and Mrs. Dorothy Mc
Allister, of Michigan, the opponents of the
proposal to insert an equal rights amendment
plank in the platform. Each introduced depu-
ties of important feminine organizations who
submitted statistics and arguments to the
twenty-two men and women sitting non-
committally to hear all comers.
Then Marvin Harrison of Cleveland, under
the aegis of the National Consumers League,
waded right into this feminine fracas, swinging
his arms and some pungent phraseology to
emphazize his protest at inclusion of what
he termed, "this lunatic proposal." He
pleaded that the Democratic Party "may be
saved from endorsing, on a 'me, too' basis,
this plank which the Republican party put into
its platform, I believe, without much discus-
sion." Mr. Harrison said, "We work on a family
unit and women do need special protection."
Favorable action on the proposal was
urged by Mrs. William Dick Sperberg of New
York for the General Federation of Women's
Clubs ; Mrs. Marion Mulligan and Miss Matilda
Fenberg, who appeared respectively for the
National Federation of Business and Pro-
fessional Women and the National Association
of Women Lawyers, and Dr. Bertha Van
Heusen, for the Central Board of the
American Women's Medical Association.
Speaking against the proposal were
Miss Linna Bresete of the National Cath-
olic Welfare Council and Mrs. Raymond
S. Simons, representing the National
League of Women Voters. Besides, Mrs.
McAllister read into the record opposition
statements of Philip Murray, president of
the C.I.O. ; of the National Board of the
YWCA, of the National Council of Jewish
Women, and of the American Association
of University Women.
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NEW YORK TIMES JULY 18, 1944
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