Public Meetings and Demonstrations
These have been organised in great numbers. For example:—
In February 1907, 3000 women marched in procession in London, from Hyde Park to Exeter Hall.
In October 1907, 1500 women marched in procession through Edinburgh.
In October 1907, 2000 women marched in procession through Manchester.
In June 1908, 15,000 women marched in procession in London to the Albert Hall.
In June 1911 more than 40,000 women, representing all the suffrage societies, walked in a procession four miles long to the Albert Hall.
Public meetings have been held all over the country by all the suffrage societies. It is obviously impossible to enumerate them. We content ourselves with a rough estimate of meetings held in support of the "Conciliation Bill." These amount to, at least, 5000 meetings, including a demonstration in Hyde Park, attended by half a million people, a demonstration in Trafalgar Square, attended by 10,000 people. Also six Albert Hall meetings (two in one week), and demonstrations held in other cities than London, e.g., Manchester (2), Edinburgh, Bristol, Newcastle, Guildford, &c., &c.
These figures include meetings held by the N.U.W.S.S. and other societies; but leave out of account out-door meetings held in such numbers as to make even a rough estimate impossible. During the summer and autumn of 1910 there were at least two or three hundred every week.