SCENE IN COMMONS
AN IRISHWOMAN’S OUTBURST. SMELLING SALTS THROWN. PROTEST AGAINST WAR. (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, March 13. Springing up in the public gallery of the House of Commons Miss Ellen Wilkinson (Labour) here appealed for better conditions for women employed in offices, a young Irishwoman threw down on the floor of the house bundles of papers. She screamed: “We appeal to womanhood to stop war, war, war!” The woman also flung a bottle of smelling-salts, narrowly missing Mr Pethick Lawrence (Labour) and Mr Cove (Labour). The latter picked up and pocketed the bottle while Mr Geoffrey Lloyd calmly continued the debate. Attendants seized the woman as she cried: “Yes, I will go out. I will appeal to the King. You are worse than ostriches. You’ve got no sense!” The woman was taken to the police detention room until the House rose.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 130, 14 March 1936, Page 5
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