"FREEDOM" FOR WOMAN
DISPUTE IN COVENTRY MEN OBJECT LONDON, March 22. For the first time in Coventry's ancient history, a woman—23-year-old Miss Lily Stevenson—has been made a freeman of the city. Men are attacking her election, women defending it. Involved in the dispute is property worth half a million pounds by ancient law owned by the freemen of Coventry, under trustees. Leading tho attack are the other freemen —there are 307f> besides Miss Stevenson —who, at a mass meeting last Thursday, decided to bring a case to test the legality of further women being admitted freemen. Every apprentice who has satisfactorily served five years at a trade and applies to become a freeman iriust be enrolled and becomes joint heir to tho "'freemen's land! Income from the property is distributed according to the seniority of the freemen. The 40 oldest freemen receive 6s a week each; 40 receive 4s a week; and 40 widows of freemen also have 4s weekly. • ; The crisis began when Miss Lily Stevenson, who assists her chemist father, took her M.P.S.' (Member of tho Pharmaceutical Society) degree| and was admitted as a freeman of the citv last month. i
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19335, 27 May 1937, Page 11
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193"FREEDOM" FOR WOMAN Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19335, 27 May 1937, Page 11
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