A REVELATION.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1213, 23 August 1911, Page 9

A REVELATION.

It used to be said of women that they could not combine. The sneer had just this measure of truth ,in it, that so long as women were engaged exclusively or mainly in domestic work, or in home industries, they were units which iIM not naturally realise their own solidarity, or their common interests, pays tho "Nation" in on account of the bi.? women suffrage procession held in London lately. It was a disability which they share with men of the labouring class before the growth of the factory system. The new conditions of work havo made for them at once the possibility and tho imperioi;.need of combination. As a spectacle it was perhaps, the brave legion of prisoners! and the historical pageant with its gay colours and • its tasteful" costumes -which most impressed the crowd. But as a political argument the most impressive s?ction of this procession was, to our thinking, the companies of women workers, from tho robed graduates, the writers, the actresses, and tho musicians, to the cloTks. the Pest Office workers, the nurses, and the Lancashire textile operatives. It is from the millions of women who have gone out into the world to learn there at one? their weakness and their strength that this movement has derived its overwhelming impetus. Tho demonstration conveved to the most thoughtless spectator its obvious lcsJ-on as a proof of a capacity to organise which' no other movement of our day displays.