"Now there's conscription coming, if women take their jobs they'll have to go."
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The Accrington Pals (play)
The Accrington Pals is a 1982 play by Peter Whelan set in Accrington during the first few years of the World War I. The play explores a number of issues relevant both at the time and today, questioning peoples morality and attitudes to war. Some of the issues discussed is the inequality towards women 'MAY: At Paxtons they don't pay you what they pay a man do they?', and how much you are for other people with Toms idealistic viewpoint or May's conservative stance. Unlike most other War related pi
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