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fades | In re: Well. #4 - 4/26/24 "y will not buy Liberty Bonds nor any sintler war loans; “Iwill not make manitions; Z will not tare. 2. man 's place in order to let hia go to war)" The meting ry this resolation and vow elicited aach arplanee, (Xbeagh when a vote was taken, the Winsor amendment was defeated by a vote of about 15 to 21. This vote, be it noted, was merely apcn the matter of requiring the taking of this oath as a pre-requisite to membership. A pamphlet entitled "Aperica Menaced by Mili-~ tarism” an appeal to women circulated by the W.I.k. contains in its back the following: ®Go to war if you want to, but know this: we have pledged ourselves not to give you our children; not to encourage or nurge yoor soldiers; not to knit e eock,or roll a bandage, oF drive - a truck, or make a war speech, or bay a bond". The purposes of the organization continue to be a fight against "militeriem" in any form and the abolishment of the army and navy, national guerd, oivil- {ane training camps and, in fact, anything relating to ‘national defense, as well as & very active campaign for -the repeal of the ermy reorganization act of 1920. At the meeting of the W.1I.L. in Washington in April 1922, heretofore mentioned, there was unanimously ~ adopted a resolution urging the President to release ell “political prisoners” held under the espionage act.