MRS. TOM WALSH
ADELA PANKHURST'S POWER
WOMAN M.L.C. TELLS TALES.
(Received 27th August, 1 p.m.)
SYDNEY, This Day. Miss Preston Stanley, in making her maiden speech in the Legislative Assembly, and the first speech by a woman in any Australian Parliament, reviewed the seamen's strike. She declared that Mrs. Walsh, wife of the president of the Seamen's Union, was formerly Adela Pankhurst, ana* was the power behind ' her strife-stirring husband. She said it-was this same demagogic philosopheress who had laid it down that the worker who is thrifty betrays his wife and children. Pausing a moment, she ejaculated, "What bedlamic theories !"
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 50, 27 August 1925, Page 6
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