NOTES FOR WOMEN

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 56, 15 September 1928, Page 20

NOTES FOR WOMEN

NORTHERN IRELAND AND THE . FRANCHISE. ; The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, Lord, Craigavon, addressing a gathering .of Orangemen at -Dromore re-! cOntly, 'sajd.Vtlje .Government'^proposed''.; tij" introduce ; -in the autuihn session aBill conf erriiig ;the vote oh women ofj: 21, and, early/next year, a redistribution Bill abolishing proportional representation. '; The first measure would place women on the same footing as tijicir sisters in Great Britain, and the s|cond would Ulster intoi B|ngl<vmember constilj^neies, meting ' o'jtt even-handed jtmtfaQ to the Nation-": dpsts.. ':-■>'■■•'. '; ; • ; ' J Meanwhjto all necessary steps were" Ijieing tatflfi" to ensure that. Ulster would; lifeneflt to a like extent as Great■-Bri-i' x ljiiiß, and contemporaneously, with her, Ml the maturing of Sir. Churchill-'s plans "Sor the amelioration of industrial and Agricultural rates. - -'•■ If, Referring ■to the.- party prospects,. Jiord Craigayon said a strong working majority was assured if Republicans and Nationalists only had to be taken' ipto account," but certain 'misguided, in-j dividuals-, who-by every, decent instinct Should be supporting them and t(ie gteat cause.they-.represented, flouted; t]tie assoeiatipns.,and. stood as Bp-cafled; ilf dependents,Tthiis causing a split with-: in the ratlks. -' : "-'•;■ ; There was ihthe Ulster..House.; of, (Jbmmons a; united political factiony totalling nine.teeii, made up xif so-called Independent - Unionists, Republicans^ and Socialists, combined llgainst the Government. Through the. inachinations of the Northern Liberal Association the loyalists were so split rfs to allow even eight more to. be. added 46 tho nineteen... . No. Loyalist Govern-'' jnent could carry' on, and the so-calle^1 Independent Unionist Liberals, Republicans, Nationalists,... and , Socialists •would be in power with a party of twenty-seven. H, ever that faction gained'control the Republicans, Nationalists, and .Socialists would predominate, and consequently' claim the choice. <ii£ offices, probably the Premiership, the Education, "and the B.U.C. •nd Special. Constabulary. .. .. ■