A public memorial service will be held for Dr. Marion Phillips, ex-Labour M.P. for Sunderland, at the Whitefield’s Tabernacle, Tottenham Court-road, W., to-morrow, at 11 a.m., and cremation will follow at Golders Green at 12.15 p.m., the Labour organ “Daily Herald” announces to-day.
At the service, it proceeds, the Rev. A. D. Belden will make a statement and will read the 13th. chapter of the first Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians – the famous passage on Faith, Hope and Charity.
Addresses will then be given by Mr. George Lansburg, Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party; Mr. George Lathan, Chairman of the National Executive of the Labour Party; Mrs. Barbara A. Gould, Chairman of the Standing Joint Committee of Industrial Women’s Organisations; and Mr. Peter Lee, acting President of the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain. Mrs. Ada Salter will present a laurel wreath on behalf of the women of the Labour Movement, and an address by Miss Susan Lawrence will follow. “Jerusalem” will be sung, and “England, Arise”. A request has been made that flowers be sent in a form such as will facilitate their distribution for use in hospitals. They should arrive at Whitefield’s Tabernacle not later than 10 a.m. to-morrow.
The last idea Dr. Marion Phillips ever discussed with her fellow women organisers, the “Herald” adds, has been given practical shape. It was for a series of women’s rallies to close the Labour Crusade for a million more members in the London area. Yesterday Miss Somers, Dr. Phillips’ lieutenant in the London constituencies, told the “Daily Herald” she had nearly completed working out the details of her chief’s last wish. Two thousand men and women delegates will attend the mass conference in the Kingsway Hall on February 20th. to open the membership drive in London.
The “Manchester Guardian” publishes an editorial to-day in which it says that the death of Dr. Marion Phillips is a very serious loss to the Labour party, because she was by education, special training, and experience the best-equipped of all the party’s leading women. Before she came to London from Australia – she was a Jewess – she had won high honours in economics and history at Melbourne University, and she was a most efficient organiser and investigator.
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