[3] She became a prominent activist for working women in the East End, and was the main organiser of a large demonstration against unemployment in 1905, following which she met the then Prime Minister, Arthur Balfour.

[3] Scurr's plea to the Prime Minister was for the demand for suffrage coming from East London working women (and men) living in poverty, who died young, and for the widows without support.

[3] Scurr said in reference to Mrs Pankhurst's hunger strike "We are here today to demand a vote for every woman over the age of twenty-one".

[3] The Prime Minister's response included some positive remarks about 'no disposition in any quarter to be vindictive' but in return asking for women's militancy to be condemned by the delegation.

[4] Her name and picture (and those of 58 other women's suffrage supporters) are on the plinth of the statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square, London, unveiled in 2018.