Women's Labour League




The Women's Labour League was a pressure organisation, founded in London in 1906, to promote the political representation of women in parliament and local bodies.[1] The idea was first suggested by Mary Macpherson, a linguist and journalist who had connections with the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants,[2] and was taken up by several notable socialist women, including Margaret MacDonald, Marion Phillips and Margaret Bondfield.[3][4] The League's inaugural conference was held in Leicester, with representatives of branches in London, Leicester, Preston and Hull. It was affiliated to the Labour Party.[3] Margaret MacDonald acted as the League's president,[5] while both Margaret Bondfield and Marion Phillips served at times as its organising secretary.[6]


Much of the League's campaigning effort was devoted to the issue of women's suffrage. When the Representation of the People Act 1918 gave a partial women's franchise, the League decided to disband as an independent organisation. It became the women's section of the Labour Party, which had reorganised under a new constitution that year.[3]


The Labour History Archive and Study Centre at the People's History Museum in Manchester holds the records of the Women's Labour League in their collection.[7]



Members of the Executive


The following were members of the executive of the Women's Labour League:[8]



  • Bertha Ayles

  • Jennie Baker

  • Miss Bell

  • Miss Bellamy

  • Ethel Bentham

  • Margaret Bondfield

  • Katharine Bruce Glasier

  • Marion Curran

  • Charlotte Despard

  • Louise Donaldson

  • Mary Gawthorpe

  • Florence Harrison Bell

  • Mabel Hope

  • F. James

  • Edith Kerrison

  • Mary Longman

  • Eveline Lowe

  • Mary Macarthur

  • Margaret MacDonald

  • Miss McKenzie

  • Clarice McNab

  • Mary Macpherson

  • Edith Macrosty

  • Mary Middleton

  • Mary Muir

  • Minnie Nodin

  • Marion Phillips

  • Edith Rigby

  • Ada Salter

  • Grace Scholefield

  • Lisbeth Simm

  • Margaret Smith

  • Maud Ward



References





  1. ^ "Women, the Vote and Labour 1906-1918". National Co-operative Archive. Retrieved 23 August 2014..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ Collette, Christine (1989). For Labour and for Women: The Women's Labour League 1906–18. Manchester: Manchester University Press. p. 31. ISBN 0-7190-2591-5.


  3. ^ abc "Labour History Archive and Study Centre". Archives hub. Retrieved 7 September 2014.


  4. ^ Williamson, Philip. "Bondfield, Margaret Grace". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online edition. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
    (subscription or UK public library membership required)


  5. ^ June, Hannam. "MacDonald, Margaret Ethel Gladstone". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online edition. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
    (subscription or UK public library membership required)


  6. ^ Collette, Christine (1989). For Labour and for Women: The Women's Labour League 1906–18. Manchester: Manchester University Press. pp. 132–34. ISBN 0-7190-2591-5.


  7. ^ Collection Catalogues and Descriptions, Labour History Archive and Study Centre


  8. ^ Christine Collette, For Labour and for Women: The Women's Labour League, 1906-1918, p.54









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