the forenoons were devoted to business meetings relating to the future work of the alliance and they were in session simultaneously in different rooms in the great building—women and party politics, legal status of women, civil equality, economic value of domestic work of wives and mothers, equal pay for equal work, single moral standard, protection of childhood— questions affecting the welfare of all society in all lands, pressing for solution and in all practically the same. the afternoons were given largely to the reports from many countries. "the woman's leader", organ of the national union of societies for equal citizenship of great britain, in its account of the congress said: