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campaign in the State of Washington. At a board meeting it was decided
that some plan must be adopted for enrolling non-dues-paying members
similar to that of the Woman Suffrage Party of New York. This name was
taken for New Jersey and an Enrollment Committee was formed with Mrs.
Lillian F. Feickert of Dunellen chairman, to organize by political
districts. Over a hundred New Jersey women marched in the second New
York parade on May 4. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony was placed
in libraries. The three associations agreed to unite in work for a
suffrage measure in the Legislature and Dr. Luella Morrow, Miss
Laddey, Miss Grace Selden and Mrs. Howe Hall were appointed to have
charge of it. Mrs. Bartlett secured the favorable opinions of twelve
New Jersey clergymen and had them printed for circulation. The Equal
Justice League of young women was started in Bayonne with eighty
members, Miss Dorothy Frooks, president. At this time the State
association had fourteen branches and about 500 members.
The convention of 1911 was held in Willard Hall, Passaic, in November.
All rose to greet the Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell when she
entered. Mayor George N. Seger in his welcome said that all women who
paid taxes should vote and with the ballot women could help many
needed reforms. A hundred copies of the New York _American_ with an
editorial on woman suffrage in New Jersey sent by Arthur Brisbane were
distributed.
It was voted to ask Governor Woodrow Wilson, as a Presidential
candidate, if he favored woman suffrage. Mrs. Rheta Childe Dorr of the
editorial staff of _Hampton's Magazine_ appealed for legislation in
behalf of working girls. Miss Emma McCoy, president of the New
Brunswick Teachers' Association, made a plea for equal pay for women
teachers. Addresses were given by Robert Elder, assistant district
attorney of Kings county, N. Y.; Mrs. Raymond Brown of New York, Miss
Melinda Scott of Newark, treasurer of the National Women's Trade Union
League, and Judge William H. Wood of New York. Dr. Hussey told of
10,000 leaflets distributed.
Mrs. Feickert described the successful house-to-house canvass in
Jersey City by Miss Pope and herself, by which the membership had
increased to 1,400. Mrs. Decker announced the opening of the first
State headquarters the next week in Newark with a volunteer committee
in charge, Mrs. George G. Scott, chairman. Mrs. Vernona H. Henry of
Newark was elected recording secretary and no oth
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