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NATIONAL AMERICAN CONVENTION OF IQI7 519 Organization in New York State Mrs. Raymond Brown, chair- man. Campaign district chairman, Mrs. F. J. Tone. Rural assem- bly district leader, Mrs. Willis G. Mitchell. Election district cap- tain, Mrs. Frederick Edey. From the Organization to the Voter Mrs. Laidlaw. Organization and Campaign Work in New York City Miss Mary Garrctt Hay. chairman. Assembly district leader, Mrs. Charles L. Tiffany. Election district captain, Mrs. Seymour Barrett. State Departmental Work: Teachers Miss Katharine D. Blake, chairman. Industrial : Miss Rose Schneiderman, proxy for chairman. Speakers in War Time Mrs. Victor Morawetz, chairman of speakers' bureau. Financing a State Campaign Mrs. Ogden Mills Reid, treasurer. Winning New York Mrs. Norman deR. Whitehouse, State president. The many phases of this remarkable campaign, which won the State of largest population and opened the way to certain victory in Congress, were presented in a most interesting manner. In speaking of the big city where the fight was actually won, Miss Hay, chairman of the committee, said : "We won, first, because of a continuous campaign in New York City begun eight years ago. On election day in 1915, about midnight, when we knew the amendment had not carried, we decided to have another campaign and began it the next day. Second, we won because of organization along district political lines. No State should ever go into a campaign unless the women are willing to organize in this way and stick to it. It was not the five borough leaders but the 2,080 precinct captains who carried the city. The cam- n represented an immense amount of work in many fields. There were 11,085 meetings reported to the State officers and many that were never reported. Women of all classes labored together. 'If you want to reach the working men/ said Rose ciderman, 'remember that it is the working women who can reach them.' The campaign cost $682,500. This sum, which d for two years and covered the whole State, was less than the amount spent in three months in New York City that to elect a Mayor. The largest individual gift to the New York City campaign was $10,000 from Mrs. Dorqthy Whitney Straight. Most of the money was given in small suin^ and repre- sented innumerable sacrifices."