PROLOGUE

2. THE WAR

3. THE WAR - WOMEN’S PART

4. LET US REASON TOGETHER

5. VIDA GOLDSTEIN

6. THE WOMEN’S POLITICAL ASSOCIATION

7. THEY WORKED OUT THEIR POSITION

8. THEY DEVELOPED THEIR RESPONSE

9. THEY FOUGHT FOR CIVIL LIBERTY

10. A FIGHT LED BY A WOMAN

11. 'I DIDN'T RAISE MY SON TO BE A SOLDIER'

12. THEY OPPOSED WHITE AUSTRALIA

13. WARRING AGAINST WAR - SUPPORTING SOLDIERS

14. THE WPA DEMANDED
TERMS OF PEACE BE DECLARED
AND SUBMITTED TO THE PEOPLE

15. THE WPA WAS FEMINIST

16. THE WPA PROTESTED AGAINST UNEMPLOYMENT

17. THE WPA PROTESTED AGAINST THE COST OF LIVING

18. WINNERS AND LOSERS

19. THE WOMEN’S PEACE ARMY

20. WOMEN'S PEACE ARMY RESOLUTIONS

21. THE WPA ESTABLISHED AND RAN A WOMEN’S UNEMPLOYMENT BUREAU

22. THE WPA ESTABLISHED AND RAN A WOMEN’S FARMING CO-OPERATIVE

23. 'AS GOOD AS A MAN'

24. THE WPA ESTABLISHED AND RAN A WORKERS' COMMUNE

25. THE WPA GREW BEYOND VICTORIA

26. THE WPA OPPOSED CONSCRIPTION

27. WOMEN'S PEACE ARMY LEAFLETS

28. 80,000 PEOPLE ON YARRA BANK

29. PRESS, PULPIT AND PURSE

30. A CONSTRUCTIVE PEACE

31. WOMEN’S TERMS OF PEACE

32. PEACE IN HONOUR’S CAUSE

33. WHOSE PEACE?

34. THE ARMISTICE IS NOT PEACE

35. 1919 THE WPA EXPOSED THE BLOCKADE

36. HYPOCRISY

37. THE WORLD IS SICK UNTO DEATH

38. THE WPA SENT TWO REPRESENTATIVES TO THE 1919 WOMEN’S INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR PERMANENT PEACE AT ZURICH

39. THE WPA DENOUNCED THE VERSAILLES PEACE TREATY

40. THE WPA REPORTED THE WOMEN’S INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS

41. THE OLD ORDER HAS NOT CHANGED

42. HERE, IN AUSTRALIA

43. THE END?

44. STRANDED IN LONDON

45. ANZAC - THE SISTERHOOD FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE (1915-1919)

46. ANZAC - THE WOMEN’S POLITICAL ASSOCIATION

47. AN ANZAC SERMON

48. THE ‘WRONGS UNDER WHICH THEIR COMRADES HAD LIVED’

49. THE WOMEN?

50. ANOTHER WAR

 

FIRST WORLD WAR WOMEN

working for peace in Melbourne 1914-1919

PROLOGUE === 30. === 32. PEACE IN HONOUR’S CAUSE

 

31. WOMEN’S TERMS OF PEACE

1.  Women to be given Equal Political Rights

with Men in all countries

where Representative Government Exists.

2.  Education of Children

in Principles of Anti-Militarism

and Internationalism.

3.  Self-Government

Not to be Refused to Any People.

4.  Abolition of Conscription

and Every Form of Militarism.

5.  Prohibition of Press and Platform Censorship.

6.  Foreign Policy to be subject

to Democratic Control.

7.  General Disarmament to be aimed at

by Governments taking over the manufacture

of the munitions of war

and controlling International Traffic in them.

8.  Respect for Nationality -

No territory to be transferred

without the consent of the men and women in it.

9.  Freedom of the Seas -

Trade Routes to be open on equal terms

to the shipping of all nations.

10. Investments to be made

at the risk of the investor,

without claim to the official protection

of his Government.

11. Secret Treaties to be void,

and the theory of the Balance of Power

to be abandoned.

12. Our Social System to be remodelled

on a basis of co-operation,

so that production and distribution

shall be controlled by the people for the people.

13. International Disputes to be referred

to an International Court of Justice,

in which men and women of all classes

shall be represented.

14. No Declaration of War

unless the people declare in favour of it

by Referendum.

Woman Voter 22 February 1917 State Library of Victoria

=== 32. PEACE IN HONOUR’S CAUSE ===