the ground of sex; (b) A reclassification of the present
Federal civil service upon this basis with a wage or salary scale
determined by the skill and training required for the work to be
performed and not on the basis of sex; (c) A minimum wage in
Federal, State and local service which shall not be less than the
cost of living as determined by official investigations; (d)
Provisions for an equitable retirement system for superannuated
public employees; (e) Enlarging of Federal and State Civil
Service Commissions so as to include three groups in which men
and women shall be equally represented; namely, representatives
of the administrative officials, of the employees and of the
general public, and (f) The delegating to such commissions of
full power and responsibility for the maintenance of an
impartial, non-political and efficient administration.

VII. Finally this department recommends that the League of Women
Voters shall keep in touch with the Women's Bureau of the U. S.
Department of Labor securing information as to the success or
failure of protective legislation in this and other countries, as
to standards that are being discussed and adopted and as to the
results of investigations that are made.

Upon motion of Miss Abbott, duly seconded, it was voted that the
following resolutions be adopted: "That the report of the Women in
Industry Department of the National League of Women Voters in its
entirety be officially transmitted by the secretary to the
congressional legislative bodies or committees thereof before which
legislation on the subject is now pending and to the administrative
officials who may have authority to act upon any of its
recommendations; that the article concerning the establishment on a
permanent basis of the Women's Bureau of the U. S. Department of Labor
be telegraphed tonight to Representative James W. Good and Senator
Francis E. Warren, chairmen of the House and Senate Appropriations
Committees in Congress, and to Senator William S. Kenyon and
Representative J. M. C. Smith, chairmen of the Senate and House
Committees on Labor before which this legislation is now pending; that
the whole of the article concerning the Federal civil service be
telegraphed tonight to Senator A. A. Jones, chairman of the Joint
Congressional Commission on Reclassification of the Federal Service;
to Senator Kenyon of th