People's Suffrage Federation

The People's Suffrage Federation (The PSF) was a British Adult Suffrage organisation. It was created by a merger of the Co-operative Women's Guild and the Women's Labour League in 1909. Led by Margaret Llewelyn Davies, who was the former Co-operative Women's Guild general secretary. The group believed that the Women's Suffrage movement was being damaged by class divisions, such as those which resulted in the split between the Women's Social and Political Union and the Women's Freedom League. They also thought that universal suffrage would be more popular with the liberal Government as it was likely that if only privileged women were granted voting rights, then this would likely aid the conservative vote in future elections.

References

• Harold L Smith, The British Women's Suffrage Campaign, 1866-1928, Pearson Education Limited(1998), pg 28-29