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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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BACKGROUND: Photo by Library of Congress on Unsplash

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