§ Dr. KingI beg to present on behalf of some 32,000 widows and other citizens a humble Petition calling attention to the economic hardships, as yet inadequately recognised by the State, of widows, especially of very aged widows, of widows between the age of 40 and 60 and of widowed mothers.
The Petition asks Parliament
to consider giving help to the widows of England along various lines, which I will not enumerate but which include the demand that all widows should receive a pension at the age of 50 and that widows who do not work should not have to pay National Insurance contributions.And your Petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray.
§ To lie upon the Table.