Ladies Go Marching On
Lib Groups Meet Jeers, Apathy
By United Press International
Bands of determined womens' liberationists carried their campaign for equal rights to the streets and city halls across the nation Wednesday.
They battled the smirks and condescension of many men, diversionary attacks by members of their own sex and an apparent general apathy in the ranks of the nation's more than 100 million women.
The demonstrations on the 50th anniversary of the winning of women's suffrage in the United
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States ranged from the silly to the academic.
Politicians appeared to take more note than businessmen. An
"I don't think a woman could be a guard at the city workhouse or a garbage collector."
early spot check by United Press International turned up few reports of female absenteeism in business and industry.
President Nixon, hailing the anniversary of women's suffrage, boosted the women's strike goals
by calling for recognition "that women surely have a still wider role to play in the political, economic, and social life of our country."
New York Mayor John V. Lindsay urged New Yorkers to "recognize how much senseless discrimination against women costs in talent, creativity, and achievement." But the mayor's office warned that women city employees taking the day off would have the hours docked from their vacation time.
San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto saying, "I really don't understand the women's liberation movement," said city employees who deserted their jobs to march would not be paid.
About 150 "lib" marchers met
angry demonstrator waved at the exotic dancer a sign that read: "Pregnancy does not equal motherhood."
An elderly woman in a print dress stood on the fringe of a rally at Madison, Wis. and lectured young liberationists: "You hippie brats . . . You should go home and change your children's diapers."
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In Pittsburgh four members of the "Radical Women's Union" braless and garbed in blue jeans tossed eggs at the windows of a radio station. They said they did it on a disc jockey's dare.
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A red-haired strip teaser named Amber Mist took much of the audience away from women staging a skit deflating males at Indianapolis' Monument Circle. Men turned their attention to the scantily clad Miss Mist when she demanded of the women's liberationists: "What's wrong with being a sex symbol?" One
with St. Louis Mayor Alfonso Cervantes and told him women could handle any city job. Cervantes demurred. "I don't think a woman could be a guard at the city workhouse or a garbage collector" he said.
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