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Telephone Notes, March 4, 1930

Schwimmer notes telephone conversations with organizations she asked for speakers on immigration.

Government Immigration Requests

Proposed Speech of Mary Sheepshanks, ca. January 1930

Sheepshanks calls for disarmament and an end to prosecution of conscientious objectors.

Conscientious Objectors Disarmament

Jane Addams Account with Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, November 1923 to July 20, 1929

An account of Addams's donations to the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and their uses.

Notes and Corrections by Yella Hertzka to Emily Greene Balch's Report of Vienna, September 1929

Hertzka clarifies Balch's report on Vienna.

Austria Peace

Australian Participants in Second Pan-Pacific Women's Conference, ca. April 1929

The Conference lists names of Australians who have agreed to participate in its study groups.

Australia Conferences

National Committee on Rauschenbusch Lectureship Foundation proposed list, ca. January 1929

A list of proposed members of the fundraising committee to form a lectureship at Rochester University in memory of Walter Rauschenbusch.

Education Memberships Tributes

Catherine Breshkovsky Birthday Party Announcement, ca. December, 1928

Blackwell sends information about sending gifts to Catherine Breshkovsky for her 85th birthday.

Celebrations Czechoslovakia Tributes

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, United States Section, Report, May 5, 1928

The United States Section reports on how the Lauterbach legacy will be dispersed and spent.

Finances Peace

Memorandum on Gertrud Ferber Visit, January 1930

Kellogg describes Gertrud Ferber's visit and efforts to find work.

Employment Germany

Report on the Lauterbach Legacy, ca. May 1928

Addams reports that the Lauterbach bequest of around $15,000 will soon be provided and invested in the United States.

Finances Peace

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom to Herbert Clark Hoover, February 13, 1930

Detzer asks Hoover to reduce the United States naval fleet in adherence with the Kellogg Treaty.

Disarmament Government Requests

Objects of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, December 5, 1929

Sheepshanks reports on the financial relationship between the League and the United States Section.

Finances Peace

Nicolae Titulescu to Mary Ryott Sheepshanks, September 27, 1930

League of Nations Peace Public Opinion

Woman's Prerogative, May 9, 1929

Skeehan outlines a plan to harness women's power for peace.

Peace Women Women's Rights

Circulation of Pax International, March 1930

A count of subscribers by country to Pax International, divided between paid and unpaid.

Finances Peace Publications

Speakers for Fortieth Anniversary of Hull-House, April 25, 1930

A list of proposed speakers for the Hull-House Fortieth Anniversary celebration.

Hull-House Hull-House Residents

Why Dry Agents Only?, October 1, 1929

The Louisville Times criticizes Addams' argument to disarm prohibition enforcement officers.

Criticism Disarmament Prohibition

Jane Addams To Be Connecticut Orator, April 12, 1930

Announcement of Addams's speech Women in Modern Social Movements at the Connecticut College of Women.

Lectures

Opinions on Palestine Mission, ca. January 1930

Summaries of opinions on Addams's role in the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom planned mission in Palestine.

Palestine Peace Praise

Comparison of Recommendations on Haitian Policy, ca. March 28, 1930

The League comment on the Hoover Commission's policy towards Haiti.

Foreign Policy Haiti Politics United States

Proposed Speech of Barthelemy de Ligt, ca. January 24, 1930

De Ligt condemns conscription and urges nations to release conscientious objectors.

Civil Rights Conscientious Objectors Peace Prisons

From Ideals to Reality, ca. January, 1930

The League compares its resolutions with Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points, the League of Nations Covenant, and the Peace Pact.

Foreign Policy International Affairs Pacifism Peace Politics

Questionnaire on Human Trafficking, ca. December 1927

The Committee gathers information on activities to end woman and child trafficking for a report.

Child Welfare Labor Prostitution Requests Travels

Jane Addams to Robert and Ada Young Hicks, October19, 1929 Also known as Invitation to Hull-House Block Party at the Bowen Country Club, October19, 1929

Addams sends Hicks an invitation to a luncheon for Hull-House workers and residents.

Celebrations Hull-House

Biography of Erlund Field, ca. September 15, 1928

A short biography of Erlund Field

Biography Recommendations

Summary of the Resolutions Passed in 1927 by the Advisory Commission against the Traffic in Women & Children at the League of Nations, 1927

The Committee summarizes its resolutions passed against the human trafficking of women and children at the League of Nations.

Child Welfare Immigrants Labor Propaganda Prostitution

Jane Addams to Jennie Josephine Webster, October 8, 1929

Addams sends Webster a letter of introduction for the Charles Hull Ewing family.

China Introduction

Petition from Arbeitsgemeinschaft österreichischer Friedensvereine, ca. September 1929

The authors seek signatures to ban paramilitary marches and dissolution of defense organizations in the name of peace.

Austria Disarmament Peace Requests

Report on the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom's Delegation to Vienna, ca. September 1929

Hertzka details the work of a delegation to Vienna that met with Australian politicians in the hopes of averting civil war.

Austria Meetings Peace Politics

Proposal to the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom's Executive Committee, ca. September 23, 1929

Hertzka proposes that the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom sends a disarmament committee to the League of Nations.

Disarmament League of Nations Peace

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Deputation to Austria Report, ca. September 23, 1929

The report outlines the threat of civil war and growing fascism in Austria, as well as the resistance to disarmament.

Austria Disarmament Fascism Politics

Hull-House Association Trustees Minutes, April 9, 1929

A summary of a quarterly meeting of the Hull-House Association Trustees.

Hull-House

State Women's Clubs Leader Visits Ithaca, April 9, 1929

A report of Addie Hunton's work for the Empire State Federation of Women's Clubs and the Young Woman's Christian Association.

Race Relief Efforts Women's Rights

Oliver Wendall Holmes Supreme Court Dissenting Opinion, June, 1929

Holmes argues that Rosika Schwimmer ought not be barred from citizenship because her pacifism makes her unwilling to bear arms in defense of the country.

Civil liberties Government Immigrants Law

The Higher Patriotism, October 7, 1904

Addams defines a new patriotism as one that tries new things and takes risks to do what it right. The speech was given at the International Peace Conference in Boston.

Democracy Lectures Nationalism Onsite Patriotism Peace

Resolution Petitioning Congress to Amend the Naturalization Law, June 12, 1929

A petition asking Congress to amend the naturalization law to make it clear that conscientious objectors are not barred from citizenship.

Immigration Law

Intelligence Versus Pacifism and Subversivism, February 3, 1927

A report of a meeting held between Jane Addams, Mary McDowell and members of the Military Intelligence Association regarding attacks on Addams by Frere Hopkins.

Anti-radicalism Criticism Patriotism Peace

Proposed Amendments to the Constitution, ca. May 1929

Doty suggests that the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom increase the size of its Executive Committee and allow Consultative Members voting powers.

Peace

Proposed Amendment to the Constitution, ca. May 1929

Balch proposes the the Executive Committee of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom be allowed to choose its own chairman.

Peace

Second Twenty Years at Hull-House chapter list, March 1929

A list of proposed chapters and word counts for The Second Twenty Years at Hull House.

Writings

Shipment of Arms to China, May 22, 1928

The Times reports on a discussion in the House of Commons regarding an agreement by British insurance carriers not to underwrite shipment of munitions to China.

China England Insurance Military

Meetings with the Members of the League of Nations, June 19, 1928

Balch details her attempt to meet with members of the Council on issues related to China.

China Meetings Peace

A Message from the Wilderness, ca. 1928

Hemmer tells a story about the wastefulness of war.

War

Scientific War Conference Speaker Replies, February 12, 1928

List of speakers invited to the Scientific War Conference and their replies.

Conferences War

Peace Mission Work, August 21, 1926

Widegren discusses her ideas for training peace workers to collaborate internationally given to the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom's Balkan Conference.

Education Lectures Peace