| Main Performers | Miss Mary R Macarthur (Presiding),
Mr Frederick Bramley,
Miss Flora Barker,
Miss A L Lawrence,
Miss A Susan Lawrence (LCC),
Miss J Stephen,
Mr Harry Gosling (LCC),
Mr Ben Spoor MP,
Mrs Taplin,
Mrs Charlotte Despard,
Mr Francis Meynell,
Miss Florence Campbell - speakers |
| Set List | Musical Recital
'Federation Song',
'England Arise',
'The Red Flag',
'God Save the People'
Opening Address (Mary Macarthur),
Resolution for a Working Womens Charter,
Moved (Fred Bramley),
Speech (Florence Barker),
Speech (A A Laurence),
Speech (Jessie Stepehn),
Resolutions for statutory regulation of wages and a 40 hour working week,
Moved (Henry Gosling, Charlotte Despard, Susan Laurence) |
| Performance Notes | "This meeting was called to ask for a charter outlining rates of fair pay and fair conditions of work for Working Women. There is considerable discontent among the demobilized women at what, in women's trade union circles is regarded as an effort to exploit the unemployed women on badly paid domestic service and sweated laundry work, and to mislead public opinion into believing that the out-of-work women who refuse accept £26 or £30 a year for domestic work and 17s or 18s a week in a laundry are having a cheap holiday at the country's expense."
(The Times, 20 January 1919)
"WOMEN WORKERS' DEMANDS.
The Albert Hall was fairly well filled on Saturday evening to hear the 'proclamation of the Women's Charter,' as propounded by the National Federation of Women Workers. The majority of the freeholders of the boxes and stalls had given the use of these seats, and there were occupants of the Royal box, while the banner of a branch union was displayed from that of the Prince of Wales. Miss Mary Macarthur presided, and in her opening address said that this was the greatest meeting that organised women had ever attempted. Practically every branch of women's occupation was represented. There were clerks from the War Office, the Admiralty, and all the Minsitries and Government Departments, while the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps, the Women's Royal Naval Service, and the Women's Royal Air Force, had sent members: banks an dinsurance offices: the industrail centres, and even employers' associations were included. Everyone had been promised after the war a new world, but instead there was something worse than the old one, while distinctions between classes seemed more accesntuated than ever. They had been told that those women who were heroines during the war were slackers now..."
(The Daily Telegraph, 17 February 1919) |
| Related Archival Material | Programme (RAHE/1/1919/15) |