FIRST WORLD WAR WOMEN
working for peace in Melbourne 1914-1919
PROLOGUE === 27. === 29. PRESS, PULPIT AND PURSE
28. 80,000 PEOPLE ON YARRA BANK
The procession and demonstration by
the United Women's No Conscription Committee
was a supreme success.
An ideal day,
between 4,000 and 6,000 women processionists
where only 2,000 had been hoped for,
artistic tableaux and singing,
a seething, sympathetic
mass of onlookers along the route,
a concourse of 80,000 people
at Yarra Bank,
earnest, thoughtful speeches,
produced a demonstration of feeling
such as has never before
been witnessed in Australia.
Woman Voter 26 October 1916 State Library of Victoria
Courtesy of John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library. Records of Tom Fitzgerald. Crowds at pageant, 21 October 1916. JCPML00687/15/6
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