The Archive · 1938

Miss M. Bondfield

RETIRES

Only Woman to Have Held Cabinet Rank London, Mar. 20.

Miss Margaret Bondfield, former Minister of Labour and the only woman who, to date, has held Cebinet rank in Great Britain retired to-day from her post Chief Woman Officer of the National Union of General and Municipal Workers. After 42 years as a Union organizer, Miss Bondfield is retiring in order to devote greater time to political work. She has been out of Parliament since 1931.

Miss Bondfield is leaving next month for a lecturing tour the

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