 During WW1 she agitated for Municipal Lodging Houses for women munitions workers, was a member of the Leigh War 
Emergency Workers Committee.She was a member of Leigh’s Naval and Military War Pensions Committee and helped devise systems to aid Leigh’s Disabled Soldiers and Sailors.Like Ellen Wilkinson, who became a Labour MP, cabinet minister, and leader of the Jarrow Marchers, working in Tyldesley, Mrs Mottram was both a WLL and NUWSS organiser..