Politics

• Suffragettes help?

  • Deeds not words helped speed up the campaign
  • Publicity was gained
  • Demonstrations were effective
  • Chaining to parliament gates gained attention
  • Princess street demonstrations gained Edinburgh more support
  • Hunger strikes in prison
• Suffragettes hinder?

  • Violence made women seem irrational
  • The government would not give into violence
  • Violence put men off supporting them

  turn tactics into weakness
• Suffragist helps?

  • Widespread supports
  • Obeying the law shows they were responsible
• Suffragist hinder?

  • Tactics easily ignored
  • Less media attention
  • Petitions rejected
  • Newspapers only read by supporters
  • Rallies ignored
• Rent strikes?

  • Local women formed the Glasgow Women's Housing Association to resist rent rises
  • In May 1915 the first rent strike began
  • Women used propaganda and meetings to get their message across
  • Women blocked access to tenement closes to stop evictions
  • Women threw items at officers to stop evictions
  • Rent strikes happened in Aberdeen, Glasgow and Dundee
  • Male factory workers were inspired by women and went on strike for higher wages
• Red clydeside?

  • Some workers began protests over DORA, pay and housing
  • The government feared a revolution
• Homes fit for heroes?

  • PM David Lloyd George promised everyone returning from war would have a good quality house
  • Addisons Act promised funding for lots of houses
  • Wheatley Housing Act promised more houses to be built iwth toilets and gardens and electricity