 She worked alongside Guy Aldred and single-handedly ran "The Spur" during his imprisonment for resisting conscription during the First World War.From 1921 she concentrated her efforts on the issue of birth control and in 1923 she and Aldred were arrested and charged for publishing and distributing Margaret Sanger's "Family Limitation".The case drew much press coverage and was supported both morally and financially at appeal by Dora and Bertrand Russell and John Maynard Keynes among others.