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Ada Salter

Ada Salter (née Brown; 20 July 1866 – 4 December 1942) was an English social reformer, environmentalist, pacifist and Quaker, President of the Women's Labour League and President of the National Gardens Guild. She was one of the first women councillors in London, the first woman mayor in London and the first Labour woman mayor in the British Isles.

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1926 General Strike

The  1926 general strike in the United Kingdom  was a  general strike  that lasted nine days, from 4 to 12 May 1926. [1]  It was called by the  General Council of the Trades Union Congress  (TUC) in an unsuccessful attempt to force the  British government  to act to prevent wage reductions and worsening conditions for 1.2 million locked-out  coal miners . Some 1.7 million workers went out, especially in transport and  heavy industry . The government was well prepared, and enlisted middle class volunteers to maintain essential services. There was little violence and the TUC gave up in defeat.

Plato

  "Love is a serious mental disease." "The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." "There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain." "When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them."