 Throughout 1913 and 1914 she wrote many letters to the press and was regularly removed from public meetings for being disruptive.Disguised in widow’s tweeds and glasses, she managed to get into a Labour meeting held by Ramsay MacDonald in the Gilfillan Memorial Hall, but was roughly dragged out by eight burly men – an onlooker describes this as "one of the strongest arguments for women’s suffrage that I have ever seen.