Three Signs of the Times: A Suffrage Parade, A Labor Procession, and a Militant Meeting

Leaflet printed with an article by the American Suffragette Alice Park. Originally published in the Labor Day Issue of the American journal, Labor Clarion in 1914 the article describes three Suffrage events that Park witnessed during her visit to the UK in 1913. Entitled 'Three signs of the Times: A Suffrage Parade, A Labor Procession, and a Militant Meeting' Park first describes her experience of the non-militant Saturday Piligrimage in Hyde Park with representatives of 500 branch suffrage societies that had marched to London from all over the UK, those from Scotland having taken 6 weeks to arrive. The second event described is a Sunday march from Whitechapel to Trafalgar Square by the working women of East End who marched with the clerks of the WSPU, the highlight of which was an appearance by Sylvia Pankhurst in Trafalgar Square even though she was in hiding. The third event describes the dramatic appearance of Emmeline Pankhurst at a meeting where, newly released from prison she arrived to rapturous welcome in a wheelchair and sold her Cat and Mouse Act Licence to the highest bidder. In her conclusion Alice Park justifies the case for Suffragette militancy.