[1] The idea was first suggested by Mary Macpherson, a linguist and journalist who had connections with the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants,[2] and was taken up by several notable socialist women, including Margaret MacDonald, Ada Salter, Marion Phillips and Margaret Bondfield.
[6] Much of the League's campaigning effort was devoted to the issue of women's suffrage.
When the Representation of the People Act 1918 gave a partial women's franchise, the League decided to disband as an independent organisation.
It became the women's section of the Labour Party, which had reorganised under a new constitution that year.
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