1952 STAND AND DELIVER… EQUAL PAY
While the black masks suggest a highway robbery may be taking place, members of the Equal Pay Committee aren’t demanding your money or your life: just for their own wages to be fair. The meeting they are advertising includes long-time campaigners for women’s rights, such as Edith Summerskill, a qualified doctor since 1924 and an MP for 23 years. If only the fight for equal pay was as swift as an actual highway robbery.
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