A WOMAN GRADUATE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23149, 22 September 1938, Page 4

A WOMAN GRADUATE

QUAKER AND PACIFIST Half a century of championing the cause of the worker, of fighting for the rights of women and children, have not robbed Mrs. Bruce Glasier, noted Socialist and veteran of the British Labour Party, Quaker and ardent pacifist, of any of that energy and idealism that, e .as a young Cambridge graduate, drove her to abandon a promising career as a teacher and to become one of the pioneers of the .Socialist and Labour movement. Mrs. Glasier, who is 71 years old, arrived recently in Melbourne from England. The daughter of a clergyman, she won an honours degree at Newnham College in 188!) and soon after was appointed senior classical mistress at tho JRcdland High School, in Bristol. Later slie left this teaching post to Work in one of the» poorest schools under tho Bristol Board to gain first-hand experience of working class conditions. One of tho founders of the Independent Labour Party she travelled right through England for manv years expounding the ideals of the Labour and Socialist movement and on her marriage to an architect in 1893, she and her husband made their mission the building of the Labour movement on international Socialist and pacifist lines.