The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-31
MRS. PANKHURST TO
LEAD STOVE DRIVE
Family Kitchen Must Go, Says
Militant, to Conserve
Woman Power.
HOLDS PARTY AS UNIT
Candidates in British Election
Must Give Views on
Housekeeping.

Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst. English
attacking things hitherto held sacred.
such as anti-suffrage Prime Ministers,
has now turned her weapons upon that
institution so long and tenderly respected
by all men and some women-the
kitchen stove.
Mrs Pankhurst will hasten home be-
fore the elections, expected TO take place
in England in November. in order to
head the drive of the woman's party
upon said stove and all 1t symbolizes.
II was always. she maintains. hard
enough for women 20 be condemned to
endless household drudgery. compelled by
individualistic housekeeping 1t is a thou
sand times harder now that the war Ii
calling millions OF them into service on
the farms. in aircraft and munition fac
tories and in hospitals. Is 1t fair. Mrs.
Pankhurst wants to know, to expect n
woman to sew all day on uniforms and
then go home and cook dinner for six
children and her man:
Let not anti-suffra gists hastily sup
pose that Mrs. Pankhurst and her
womans party are going to sweep the
stove out OF existence. No, indeed She
explained all about It yesterday at the
Waldorf Astoria, where she is staying
few days before going to Canada TO
speak.
Has been Addressing Workers.
She has been talking at various mu-
milton factories in Pennsylvania and
other States. trying, she says to make
the workers feel to the full their inn
portance in the war scheme. They
have no lack OF enthusiasm for the war.
she says. but many do not wholly see
the connection between their individual
efforts and the battles at the front.
Tomorrow Mrs. Pankhurst will talk
to the boys at Pelham Bay Training
Camp. Her subject will be the navies Of
the Allies. which she says are all one
navy now. But in October she will
hasten home TO marshal the Woman's
party, which, after women received the
vote in England. was formd out OF the
women's Social and Political Union in
its drive on the kitchen stove.
Now don't you see," she demanded.
how wise it was for women in England
to keep together as a political party In
stead OF going in with the Liberal and
Labor and Conservative parties? Men
do not, cannot understand the disadvant-
age to women OF our Anticipated methods
OF housekeeping. No mems party would
put through the housing reforms the
womans party is dema nding. We have
put cooperative housekeeping in Il lead
ing place among the planks of our plat
form and shall question all candidates
on that plank
I'VE shall demand OF each a pledge to
support legislation looking to coopera-
ton in the housekeeping industry such
as has revolutionized nearly all other
branches of industry. And we shall ap-
peal to the six millions OF women voters
in England to demand this of candidates.
women for Finish Fight.
"Of course the first qualification ~
every candidate must be the win the
war one. The Woman's party will sup
port no man who is not for fighting the
war to finish. But after that come the
measures which will make for the health
and happiness OF our people. and promi-
nent among these are the housing prob
lens. We hold that in all State and
State subsidized housing schemes the
most improved ideas OF architecture SAN
itation and domestic economy should be
carried out
THE British Government has appro-
priated a sum for improving housing con-
ditons. | spoke before the committee ap-
pointed to consider this. They seemed to
take very well to my suggestions that
the present wasteful system should he
abandoned in favor OF groups of homes
built around a central Kitchen, laundry.
nirmary &c, or apartment houses on
the same plan. so managed as to insure
the privacy OF the family and yet avoid
the deplorable waste OF woman's eco
nomic energy that takes place now
But men" Mrs. Pankhurst shook
her head. "Of course this doesn't seem
so important 10 them. tell you IT Is
necessary to have a womans party in
politics. because only women can ap-
preciate the Importance OF certain things
such as this"
Mrs Pankhurst Ia keenly interested in
the Russian situation. having been in
that country as an envoy at the time OF
the Bolshevik uprising.