Northern Men's Federation for Women's Suffrage

[4] In July 1913, organised by Maud Arncliffe Sennett, a large delegation of Scottish men travelled to London for an audience with the prime minister, H. H. Asquith, to discuss extending the franchise to women.

The artist John Wilson McLaren wrote a verse about the trip: The inaugural meeting was held in Glasgow on 11 September 1913.

She had discussed the possibility of a men's campaigning organisation on the train to the funeral of Emily Davison, which she attended on behalf of the Actresses' Franchise League.

They held a meeting in Bridgeton in November 1913, which was addressed by Maud Arncliffe Sennet, Henry Harben, JP, Bailie Alston and Helen Crawfurd, who "welcomed the NMF as a new order of chivalry: it came to fight for the oppressed and sweated women worker".

[1] In the same month they also met in the Synod Hall, Edinburgh, and were addressed by John Cockburn, Mrs Cavendish Bentinck, and Maud Arncliffe Sennett.

[6] On 14 February 1914, the Northern Men's Federation for Women's Suffrage was to hold a mass meeting in Memorial Hall, London, and the following day a Trafalgar Square demonstration.

[7] The 'War Song" titled 'Justice For Ever' by J. Wilson McLaren was to be sung in full at these events, to the air 'The Macgregors' Gathering' , and the words printed (the day before the first event) in the Women's Freedom League newspaper The Vote:We've come from the North, and the heather's on fire, To fight for the women – our only desire; At last we've been roused thro' the treachery shown By knaves at Westminster–the knaves we disown!

Then join the fray - turn the Government out That still dares the Mandate of voters to flout: For Freedom our forefathers fought long ago, And the sons from auld Scotland will strike, too, a blow!

[7]Both Nannie Brown and Maud Arncliffe Sennett visited the City of Edinburgh Council and were welcomed and given a lunch with the Lord Provost and councillors (the week before) and were organising the deputation to London.