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ANTIQUE 1920s 1930s WOMEN’S CO-OPERATIVE GUILD (WCG) COLLECTABLE ENAMEL BADGE
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VINTAGE WCG COLLECTABLE ENAMEL PIN BADGE
WOMEN’S CO-OPERATIVE GUILD (WCG)
CO-OPERATIVE WHOLESALE SOCIETY (CWS)
GUILDS / SOCIETIES | WOMEN |
HISTORY | HERITAGE |
VINTAGE & ANTIQUES | COLLECTABLES |
BRITISH | UNITED KINGDOM
DETAILS:
MEASUREMENTS:
Approx. 1 inch in diameter
WEIGHT: Approx. 4 g
MAKER’S MARKS:
C.W.S
DESIGN/ STYLE NOTES:
ANTIQUE GILT & BLUE ENAMEL PIN BADGE
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
History
The guild was founded in 1883 by Alice Acland,
who edited the “Women’s Corner” of the Co-operative News,
and Mary Lawrenson,
a teacher who suggested the creation of an organization
to promote instructional and recreational classes for mothers and girls.
Acland began organizing a Women’s League for the Spread of Co-operation
which held its first formal meeting of 50 women
at the 1883 Co-operative Congress in Edinburgh
and established local branches.
It began as an organization dedicated to spreading the co-operative movement,
but soon expanded beyond the retail-based focus of the movement
to organizing political campaigns on women’s issues
including health and suffrage.
Annie Williams,
a suffragette organiser for the Women’s Social and Political Union in Newcastle
found in 1910 that ‘Co-operative women are very keen to know about ‘Votes for Women’.
In 1884 the league changed its name to the Women’s Co-operative Guild
and later to the Co-operative Women’s Guild.
In 1899, Margaret Llewelyn Davies
was elected general secretary of the Guild
and was widely credited with greatly increasing the success of the Guild.
By 1910 it had 32,000 members.
Maternity benefits were included in the National Insurance Act 1911
because of the guild’s pressure.
The guild became more politically active,
and expanded its work beyond the British Isles;
their objectives included the establishment of minimum wages
and maternity benefits,
and in April 1914 they were involved in an International Women’s Congress
at The Hague which passed a resolution totally opposing war:
this Conference is of opinion that the terrible method of war
should never again be used to settle disputes between nations,
and urge that a partnership of nations,
with peace as its object,
should be established and enforced by the people’s will.
After World War I the guild became more involved in peace activism,
concentrating especially on the social and political conditions
that encouraged or gave rise to war,
as well as opposition to the arms trade.
In 1933 they introduced the White Poppy
as a pacifist alternative to the British Legion’s annual red poppy appeal.
At this time membership of the guild was at its peak,
with 1,500 branches and 72,000 members.
The guild continued with several local branches,
although it did not have the visibility within the co-operative movement it once did.
It closed after 133 years on 25 June 2016.
SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA
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