Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-10-20 | Page 33 | Women Gird for Fight to Get Seat in House of Lords as Ruling Result

0 Women Gird for Fight Figh To Ger Get GeStin GeSt Seat t in House of Lords as Ruling Result L Oct OcL 19 9 AP Tho house df r f lords next That haf Ja is the tho thought runs comment on orv th Judgment ot the privy c council uri n yesterday yesterday- a which recognized tho eligibility of women for tor appointment to tho sen sen- Cana Canada n. n l Practically every every newspaper In Britain In gives prominence to UI ruling l The Tho le yi victory tor of ot Cana Canadian women it Jl 1 generally cn ray felt teU can scarcely taU Tail to affect the ho claim bf or women to sit In the house oC lords s J ns tS peeresses In their own o right whether b by Inheritance or creation Mis l H helen e n Archdale president of thc tho Peers society which Is agitating for tor peer peeresses In their own right Ight t to lie be admitted to the upper chamber r. r declares the thc jud Judgment certainly strengthens their position considerably Miss Collinson or nr organiser organizer or- or of ot the tho British Commonwealth Common Common- wealth league leaCU described the judgment judg j ment as ast a real triumph It Is ls far I moro more significant and f far fth r reaching than nan It Is possible even cven f r law lawyers ers to o comprehend she ho says The Thc pally Herald The says sas pub- pub spIrited lie pertinacity o of Canadian women who ho bo appeal to the privy council against n tho the Canadian su su- su premo co courts court's rt's d I l ly Iy ju justified Uti d In tl the e event vent kt hUe supporters supporter tera of ot the dOc ot cl eloc- eloc toral equality will wm corne come this latest eV fn I eJ- eJ j VIctory victor In n j lard d' fought Caught and lInd many ed d' d nowhere will It bo boo SI battle welcomed ft rno mote wholeheartedly than and socialist J movement In Ui hes cond remain aln Chamber may rel thelast lq nOt t. t preserve but n wo Suspect f tr ma years ConclUdes graph the thc 1 bally r lo T Tc c Dr tIsh of tI controversy from 1919 hOUse hause when L.- L. In the ot of lord w was s' s claimed on behalf behalf be- be on half of ot Lady her heI own a 4 P a In rIght A A Sea 18 bill was vas In thc commons en- en abling fl- fl Women to exercise lic ho aU all public pub pub- functions b but t did dd not get through the thc h of Jord Later the gov eminent go rc n a similar bill with a t clause kin to a enabling the e q cl T Tj ic lords clause e ejected c t d the thee theT And nd th e commons reinstated It T Th The rd threw I t out After i a long ong legai battle batte the matt matter was droPP dropped d' d Until r Lady Astor Asto Introduced in- in has lins a a t new bur biu- which so 5 Sr tar far not met Inet with an any success