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Socialist Woman Vol. 1, No. 3, July–August 1969 · p. 9 of the scan · 288 words

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=_ es We congratulate our sisters of the WIW on really making the 'top ten' scene, That well-known scribe, Peter Simple of the ‘liberal, progressive! newspaper, The Daily Telegraph has given the WIW four para's in his vital, absorbing widely-ignored (pardon us, Widely-adored) column. He gives the WIW some very useful literary and historical precedents to help them in their sticker campaign against sex-exploitation in advertising, Mention is made of the Junior Anti-Sex League in "198" and the Italian and German fascist women who used the slogans, 'We Prefer Soap and Water' and 'The German Woman does not use cosmetics', Comrade Simple's intimate knowledge of the fascist programme for women is most illuminating. He goes on to say, "To . come upon one of these cadres (How many liberated women to a cadre?) at their work on the escalatora, charging up and down and rudely intercepting the glassy stares of ascending men as they dab their stickers, would be most unnerving," Now girls! Whatever you do, don't go onto Fleet Street affects a man and whatever we want it isn't hundreds paper columists.

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For information about their campaign, and their newsletter, contact: Women's Liberation Workshop, c/o 10, Strathmore Gardens, London W.8,

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by Jo O'Brien and Antonia Gorton Over 300 people stood in a real cold, biowing downpour in Nottingham's Market Square to hear Sister Patricia Veal speak on behalf of the nurses. The rally was organised by NJACWER as a building action for the following day's national demonstration for Equal Pay, in London, Among the listeners were student nurses in their grey cloaks with scarlet linings, young radicals, the press and middle-aged people of various

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