International Conference of Women Workers to Promote Permanent Peace

The questions to be considered at the conference were: "What can women do toward a re-organization of Society on a basis of safety which shall prevent its members from being offered on the altar of War, either as victims or as instruments?

Those enlisted included Phoebe Hearst, Mrs. David Starr Jordan, Mary Wood Swift, Mrs. James Rolph Jr., Mrs. Frank K. Mott, Mrs. Alexander F. Morrison, Mrs. J. W. Orr, Mrs. A. P. Black, Mrs.

All the women who were associated in peace work abroad in the 25 years preceding the conference were invited to a place on the Foreign Advisory Board.

[1] Those then gathered together from different countries were fired by the need for humanity to awaken to a keener realization of the dangers threatening to end modern civilization.

[3] Organized on a democratic basis, no attempt was made to fetter the free speech of her view by a woman invited to attend its sessions, or by anyone asked to contribute to its success with suggestions and advice.