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Jane Addams — Part 3
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a. COMPOSITION. Al peoples will be represented without exception
mot merely a. few nations. Then peoples wil) be directly represented, not mere~
ly thoir governments; governments will aleys be sore or leas temporary and
can be changed ty resction, using fores or surprise. Women as well as men will
be represented without distinotion of. tall .
: in order to really represent the people in eseenbly ao mo matter
ethat may be it's nome «= G1) will have to include, net only the representatives
of governments and parlissente, mjoritics end minorities, tut the repreaente-
. tives ‘of. aifterent: groups of workers, maveal end intellectual, thie fer two
Feasone: .
, First: A central orgen teation eannot persist ‘without the. confidence
ef the workers, since 4t hes to defend their rights as men a2 yell as producers: ,
Becond: “this central org ization esnnot in the complex eonditions
of wodern Life Linit iteelf toe political ection because the eauses of war are ;
now more economic than political.
34 48, therefore, ° essential that both producers and consumer 8, wen
andi women, should be directly representéd and have a direct sontrol go that
ne apecial ecliess of producere ney obtein en authority which they can abuse. They
‘ere already organized into trade unions, em) anployers! organizations and different
organizations of manual end intellectual workers, eooncnic roups, cooperative
manufaturing ond distributive organieations, representing the interests of
houselwepers; in the International Comuinsions for the distribution of raw
materials and the regulation of transportetion and world finance, ote. These
groups especially the last, still in « very elementary stage, abould develop
largely and their delegates would form the economic section of the League of °
Peoples where production, distribution of comeditics, end world finance will
“$e regulated md controlled. So, production, national end international dietric
bution of commodities, will not be dependent oa the “profit of individuals but
upon the nesds of the human community»
In order thet the international politica ¢ order may function most
effectively it is necessary thet the interns} orgenization ef the states should
te as free and just as possible. Citisens, when Liberated from the tyranny and
bureaucracy must control the acte of their delegetes, who oan be recalled at any
monent. This reault can be obtained by & wode of representstion just outlined
for the League of Peoples.
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