| Biography | The London Social Credit Club was a political movement during the inter-war years, based on the ideas of Major C.H. Douglas. It was designed to abolish poverty and proposed the payment of a national dividend. The London branch was based at Caxton Street, SW1 but brances of the movement grew in Birmingham, Cardiff, Belfast, Manchester, London, Aberdeen, Oxford, Dublin and Glasgow.
The movement was particulary popular with women as The Social Credit Movement articulated a clear and unequivocal commitment to economic security for women to be achieved through the establishment of equal treatment of women and men in waged employment.
It was influenced by the success of the movement in Alberta, Canada. |