The First World War and Women's Suffrage
- Created by: Beth Evans
- Created on: 08-03-13 23:32
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- The Women's Suffrage Campaign virtually stopped in August 1914
- 10th August the Government released all WSPU prisoners as they said violence would stop
- Many members of the NUWSS helped out with the war relief work
- The Women;s Service Bureau was opened in August 1914 that drafted women in to do work
- The NUWSS split into pacifists who refused to help the war and people who encouraged early peace but know the fight was necessary
- WSPU campaigned with anti-German propaganda
- Some suffragettes handed out white feathers (sign of cowardice) to men not in military uniform
WSPU Change
- 1917: name change to The Women's Party
- Their newspaper was renamed Britannia
- Leaflets campaigned for the employment of women in munitions factories and condemning pacifism
- Sylvia Pankhurst carried on through the War with Votes for Women, spoke of pacifism and socialism
- Sylvia founded the East London Federation of Suffragettes, 1914 (renamed The Worker's Suffrage Federation 1915) that helped poor in East London
- Mother and Infant Welfare clinics and Cost Price restaurants were opened
- Emmeline Pankhurst used war time jingoism
The Women's Freedom League
- President, Charlotte Despard, was appalled at war outbreak
- From 1914-1918 the WFL still campaigned for women's votes
- Despard also fought for equal pay and founded the…
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