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on all subjects affecting the feminine community. 

 At its last meeting a committee on white slave traffic 

 gave a report with startling details. It petitioned the 

 Government for the appointment of women on the 

 Royal Commission on Technical Education. Care of 

 feeble-minded women and children was discussed, 

 and minor details included the harmfulness of many 

 theatres and cinematographic displays. 



The council declared in favour of Women's 

 Suffrage, a movement which received support 

 from many of the branch meetings, including the 

 Women's Christian Temperance Union of Manitoba. 

 This movement has been widely discussed and 

 obtained many supporters. The Toronto " Globe," the 

 leading Liberal paper in Canada, threw its columns 

 open for the discussion of the subject in the early 

 part of the year. A decided majority favoured the 

 suffrage, the main contention being that women knew 

 the women's problem best and were qualified to in- 

 fluence legislation on the subject. European methods 

 of advocating the movement were adopted in the 

 Ontario Legislature in the spring, and an echo of St. 

 Stephens, Westminster, was heard, when a woman 

 rose in the gallery and said — 



" There is one thing you have forgotten in your 

 deliberations, and that is justice to women. I hope 

 that at your future meetings you will give more 

 attention to the cause of women. That is all I have 

 to say." 



