Votes for some!

The cruel treatment and suffering of the suffragettes is well worth remembering.

However, it is well to remember that the suffragette movement did not campaign for votes for all women.

Their own publications state quite honestly and frankly: “The Women’s Social and

Political Union are NOT (as printed ) asking for a vote for every woman, but simply that sex shall cease to be a disqualification for the franchise.” Thus the suffragettes were not interested in extending the franchise to working-class women. Those who did fight for universal women’s right to the franchise were called “suffragists”. Why do we not hear of them and their struggle? Another example of what is historically called “Politically correct”?

ROBERT M. DUNN

Oxcars Court, Edinburgh