Evening star., 1926-04-19
CLUBWOMEN HEAD
LABORERS' PARADE
British AristoCrats Join in
Anti-Strike Movement,
Smiling When Booed.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, April 19.-Feurteen bob.
bed-haired young women of the aris-
tocracy and the wives of many Of
Great Britain's wage earners launched
a movement Saturday designed to ease
the industrial situation, and gave
London a new thrill in fourmile
street demonstration eliminating in
an anti-strke meeting in Albert Hall,
where the leaders vented their feel
ings
There were hatless women, women
with shawls over their heads, women
in furs, good, bad and Indifferent;
women wearing the colorful costumes
of Scotland and Wales. and other
parts of the country, bat that part of
the picture which attracted most at.
tentlon was composed of mounted
members of the fashionable Waadon
Hunt Club, who headed the process
slon Most of them appeared 10 look
upon the event as great adventure,
ana even looked smilingly upon the
handfuls of unemployed ut various
points along the line of march who
booed them
About the only fun the unemployed
had was hurting questions and ex-
crowd. such as What do you know
about work?'' There go the won't
works. the never-works' and II say,
look at the blighters in the tailor
made riding habits" .
Only Slight Flurries.
The threats of the unemployed to
break up the parade which the
women's guild of the empire had been
planning for months, did not ma
terialtze. Excepting for fiurries along
Hyde Park, where little crowds carry
Ing red flags attempted to interrupt
the marchers, there was not enough
trouble to make the policemen cease
smiling.
The action of the women was against
strikes and lockouts on the ground
that national economic difficulties
should be avoided. Banners were car
r1ed bearing such inscriptions as
Inc only cure for Unemployment is
work, No more politics in industry"
SO far as police reports show. there
was not hat smashed anywhere and
only a few pieces of millinery and
some ribbons and shawls ruf1ed by
the curious onlookers and April
showers and gusts of wind Scotland
Yard, however, took no chances. in
view OF the rumors that trouble would
surely develop.
Bobbie for Every Ten.
About $4,000 women, marching four
and f1ve abreast, participated, and on
this basis 1t is estimated there was
one bobbie for every 10 women.
AS regards sympathizers, a better
route could hardly have been selected.
as 1t led through Trafalgar Square.
thence through Pail Mall and ST.
James street. where the windows of
the best known mems and women's
clubs were filled, and the spectators
shouted success to the marchers in
tfeir endeavors to reform the indus
trial world.
1t thence proceeded to the West
End. the fashionable residential dis
trict.
Some of the most characteristic
banners read: Strikes mean starya.
ton: peace brings plenty Hard
work and no nonsense!' Trust the
people and defy the cranksr THE
strike is two-edged sword"
General Flora Drummond pre-
sided over the huge meeting in Albert
Hall, which unanimously adopted a
resolution demanding that the re-
sources of the nation shall no longer
be wasted in strikes and lockouts, but
that all industrial disputes shall be
settled by negotiation and arbitration.