In the late 1920s, Brown organised women's sections of the National Union of Unemployed Workers' Movement, and she stood unsuccessfully in Motherwell at the 1929 UK general election, and then in the Kilmarnock by-election, later in the year.
In the late 1920s, Brown organised women's sections of the National Unemployed Workers' Movement. Neil C. Rafeek, "Communist Women in Scotland", p.35 She stood unsuccessfully in Motherwell at the 1929 UK general election, and then in the Kilmarnock by-election, later in the year.