The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-08-30
women MAKE
WARON HUNGER
English Suffrage Societies
Suspend Campaign to Help
in Relief Work.
AID DESTITUTE SISTERS
MiIitants in Jail Released by The
Kings Pleasure History
of the Movement.
BY CLARA BEWIC COLBY.
NO. XII

England have suspended their ordinary
suffrage activity and are using their ma
( chinery OF organization for war relief
work in conjunction with citizens COM
mittees. The London Society for Woman
Suffrage is placing its skilled workers in
connection with the central authorities,
; training for service every woman that
applies and organizing goodwill" Fac
tories are ceasing work. women and girls
are thrown out Of their usual employ
ments. and starvation faces thousands
, unless they are sought out and helped by
sympathetic women. Their appeal says.
Here is a war as real as any now be
| ing fought-a war against hunger and
misery: and in lghtinE II we are prepar-
ing for the new social order which will
be built upon the ruins OF what we now
call civilization"
The Kings Pleasure"
BY the Kings pleasure an order has
been given that suftragist prisoners. as
well as all prisoners serving sentences in
connection with strike offcnses and in
dustrial disputes. are released II Is an
i'll wind that blows no one any good, and
il is relief that We no longer have to
hear about the terrible doings of the
sufTragettPs and tho thousand times more
terrible fortunes that the government has
been inficting on them.
great mass meeting OF women was
held in Kings Hall August under the
auspices ~ the International Women's
Suffrage Alliance. Ave great national So
cieties OF women taking part. 4 German
woman was the first speaker and was
warmly greeted Women are united in
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mainly. and they will not have any part
in the hatr~ds and antaConisms that men
set up. The alliance is authorized to
speak for twenty-siN countries and ZOO
90 women. and il has spoken. II has
issued a manifesto to the governments Of
all nations and sent a special message to
Queen WiIhelmina. asking her to receive
a deputation of women. with a view TO
taking steps that might enable the pow
ers TO settle their disputes by peaceful
measures.
Turn Back Ways.
To return to our history. As the gov
eminent had refused 10 investigate the
brutal maltreatment Of women Novem-
Der IS. o. o. 1910. a memorandum Of
which had been placed before il by the
Cancellation committee early in February.
1871. II was stated by a woman. who was
way women had been used. that she
would refuse to Eive the government
the information which it would require
At the forthcoming census. The idea
spread like wild-fire and on all hands II
was determined to evade the census.
Since women do not count with the
government the government shall not
count the women, was the war cry. II
may seem a small thing To refuse to Be
q,
penalty for refusing information shows
the value the government sets upon the
census as a basis for tables Of all sorts.
1t is comparatively easy to evade the
census in England. for everywhere
throughout the island the count is taken
on the same night and you are count
ed where you sleep. II you are not in
the house your landlady may not give
your census, nor may the husband
speak for his wife il she is absent Ac-
cordingly. there were rendezvous at
places where no official was allowed TO
enter; at homes where the hostess enter |
tanned an aIl-night party and they all
agreed to stand in with her on the fine; an
all-night song and play-time under the
shelter of the Actress Franchise
League in the Aldwich Skating Rink. |
where at least two thousand gathered
there were jaunting parties into the
country in covered wagons; there were |
walking parties: there was hiding in
barns and haylofts, and there was open
defiance by those who did not fear the |
fine
How the Plan Worked.
The lady I stayed with refused on be-
half of her whole household, which in
cluded a dozen of each sex. One lady |
gave the returns with name of one man
servant. adding mo other persons, but
many women" And this took place not |
only in London but all over the kingdom
How many actually evaded the census J
will never be known, but there must |
have been many thousands. It was very
to find Mr.. John Burns. who /
was at the head OF the census, saying
that the quantity Of evaders was quite
negligible, and 1t was the government