Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Emmeline Pankhurst, president of the Women's Social and Political Union of England, spoke on "Woman Suffrage" in Brattle Hall yesterday afternoon. The lecture was given under the auspices of the Harvard Men's League for Woman Suffrage...
...fight for their political rights. Hence, at the opening of this century, the first woman's political organization in England was formed to organize the suffrage movement and to take some definite action in behalf of its cause. At the same time a popular demand for some social reform had sprung up in England chiefly owing to the women's increasing influence in politics. The Liberal party at that time realizing that this influence might be used for their own ends, brought women into actual politics by organizing a political league for women, and, as a result, won the next...
...that of the great mass of womankind. Women have to pay every kind of tax that is laid, yet they have no hand in electing the officials who make them pay. Even in making laws in regard to infantile paralysis, child labor, free competition of women in business, and social questions of this kind, their opinion is not asked...
...great leaders of the woman suffrage movement in England and it has been largely through her efforts and influence that this party has gained its recent concessions from the Prime Minister of England. Before becoming interested in this movement, she was prominent in political and social service work in Manchester, England...
...Gifford of Brookline will speak on "Christian Socialism" at an open meeting of the Junior Bible Groups in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House this evening at 6.45 o'clock. This meeting will conclude the course on "Jesus Christ and Modern Social Problems...