WOMEN AND LABOR PARTY

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8257, 21 October 1912, Page 7

WOMEN AND LABOR PARTY

FORMER DECLARE WAR,

LONDON, October 18

Miss Christabel Pankhurst, writing in “The Suffragette,” the new militant suffragist organ she has founded in the interests of the Women’s Social and Political Uhion owing to the secession of Mr and Mrs Pethick Lawrence, joint editors of “ Votes for Women,” declares war on the Parliamentary Label Party, which has refused a request to oppose the Government’s Franchise Bill unless womanhood suffrage is included in it. At the next elections, says Miss Pankhurst, every Labor candidate will be opposed.

Mr F. D. Acland, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, has explained that in making his recent statement, that if the suffragettes ceased militant tactics a Franchise Bill would be introduced,' ho was -speaking, not for the Government, but for the supporters of woman suffrage. PLAN TO VOID LONDON COUNTY ELECTIONS. (Received October 20, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, October 19. The “Westminster Gazette” states that Mrs and Miss Pankhurst are contemplating a plan to render the London County Council elections next month void by dropping corrosive acids in ballot boxes and_ so damaging or destroying the voting papers.