"JUSTICE FOR WOMEN!"

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 263, 30 October 1908, Page 2

"JUSTICE FOR WOMEN!"

lIOL'SH OK COMMON'S STARTUP). SCFFRACiI.STS CHAIN' TIIKM'SELVKS TO A CiHAXINU. LEGISLATORS UrJtJIAIUKU, IiXCITIM; PIiOCEEDLNtiS. Received ill, p.m. London, October 2!). i The House of Commons was startled this evening by a siilliage placanl being thru-t through the iron trellis of t.'ic Indies' gallery, whence came shrill cries of "Votes for women!" Two women were found padlocked to the grating, u chain engirdling their bodies. They declined to unlock themselves, and continued to shout and Uiibraid the male legislators. TW police removed a portion of the grating and conwyed the oll'endels, still attached to sections oi the grating, to the committee-room. Locksmiths filed away the links, and both were liberated in the old palace yard. Simultaneously with their demonstration, a man in the Strangers' Gallery opp/jsite demanded justice for women, and threw leaflets on the floor of tie.! House. He was expelled. Later another man shouted, "Justice for the unemployed and votes far •womenl" and showered pamphlets on the commoners' heads. He also was expelled, shouting and struggling fiercely. Meanwhile members of the Women's Freedom League, in twos and threes, penetrated far into Ht. Stephen's Had, and pretended to be wailing to «oc individual pommoners. Suddenly tlicy made an ineffectual concerted rush on the lobby. Fourteen, including several outside, notably Miss Maloncy, of befringing fame, were arrested. She was on top of the pedestal of Richard Coeur de Lion .statue, near the entrance to the House of Lords, trying to harangue the crowd in the palace yard. The Speaker ordeved the ladies' and strangers' galleries to be closed in future. Miss Muriel Matters, one of the padlocked women, informed an interviewer niter her release that she had voted twice in Australian elections. Later she wa.s arrested for participating in a disturbance in the yard. Her com- | panion, .Miss Fox, disappeared and was I not arrested.