BRITISH DOMINIONS’ WOMEN CITIZENS’ UNION.

White Ribbon, Volume 25, Issue 295, 19 January 1920, Page 6

BRITISH DOMINIONS’ WOMEN CITIZENS’ UNION.

iq, Bu kingliam Street, Strand, London. \\ .C. j, October Jist, ipip. hi llu ( hauman. Joint Seleit ( uni mittee, Government ol India Bill, House of lands. Sir, - I am authorised b\ the lonstitutent -ax iciics of this I nion to xxntc to you upon the following question: With ilie single exception ol South \fiu i \xe arc all enfram liised women citizens <•! the Empire. We know by expel ten* e as xxell ax by theory that cqualitx between men and women is I imdainrntal to the well being of every stale. lhc women of South Atm a are within measitr. ble distance ol s» ruling the recognition of this prim i pie in the case of their oxxn political enfranchisement. We therefore venture to infoim you that in the four great self governing Dominions of the Fmpiic, women have but >ne opinion «is icgards the < laim of the women of India to the same r!r ‘' f.d rights .is the nun. We are xxell axxare that as sell gox < rning Dominions, New Zealand, Aus tralia. South Africa and Canada have no voire in the internal affairs of am ot h( >’ part of the Empire. But the principle for which we contend has been recognised In the 1 rag tie of Xa tions. It in impossible th it the British Empire, itself a League of Nations within the greater League, ran take a lower moral stand. We therefore beg that in the truest and most far-reaching interests of thr Empire, the Joint Sele-t Committee will secure that the Government ol India Bill shall include thr granting of the franchise to the xvnmen of Indi» on the s »me terms »s it is to he grant ed to men. Signed on behalf of the constituent societies of »hr British Dominions’ Women Citizens’ Cnion, IT \RRIET C NEWCOMB, Hon Secretary.