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Workers' Dreadnought

Provisionaly titled 'Workers' Mate', this newspaper first appeared on International Womens Day[?], 8th March in 1914 as Womens' Dreadnought[?]', with a circulation of 30,000.

The paper was started by Mary Patterson[?] , Zelie Emerson[?] and Sylvia Pankhurst (after she was been expelled from the Suffragette movement by her mother and sister) who were also involved with the Workers' Socialist Federation[?] and the East London Federation of Suffragettes (ELFS)[?] in the East End of London at the time.

In 1917 the name was changed to Workers' Dreadnought with a circulation of 10,000.



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