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694 HISTORY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE termined by official investigations; (d) Provisions for an equitable retirement system for superannuated public employees; (e) En- larging of Federal and State Civil Service Commissions so as to include three groups in which men and women shall be equally rep- resented; 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 mainte- nance 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 sec- retary 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 estab- lishment on a permanent basis of the Women's Bureau of the U. S. Department of Labor be telegraphed tonight to Repre- sentative James W. Good and Senator Francis E. Warren, chair- men of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees in Congress, and to Senator William S. Kenyon and Representa- tive J. M. C. Smith, chairmen of the Senate and House Com- mittees 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 Fed- eral Service ; to Senator Kenyon of the State Labor Committee ; Senator Thomas Sterling and Representative Frederick R. Leh- bach, chairmen of the Senate and House Committees on the Civil Service. Food Supply and Demand, Mrs. Edward P. Costigan, chair- man. Whereas, in addition to the results of inflated currency due to the war, the high cost of living in the United States is in- creased and the production of necessary food supplies diminished