ABSTRACT

Save during one week in November 1910, militancy remained suspended until 21 November 1911. It is probably best to begin an account of the period during which militancy was suspended with the Union’s annual report for 1 March 1909 to 28 February 1910, since the report largely dealt with fiscal trends prevailing before the truce was declared. In 1909–10, the WSPU’s income had continued to grow rapidly, the total income being £33,027 compared with £21,214 the previous year. * Expenditure had included £4,939 for the salaries of staff and organizers and £3,473 for the hiring of halls. Twenty-three more salaried employees had been taken on at Clement’s Inn, the total paid staff there now numbering 98. The Union’s national organization had expanded too – by the end of the fiscal year 26 salaried organizers were in charge of 23 separate districts. Three of these districts were in Scotland, but none was in Ireland or Wales. Finally, by the end of February 1910, the circulation of Votes for Women, 16,000 copies a year earlier, was ‘between 30,000 and 40,000’. 1