6. THE WOMEN’S POLITICAL ASSOCIATION
7. THEY WORKED OUT THEIR POSITION
8. THEY DEVELOPED THEIR RESPONSE
9. THEY FOUGHT FOR CIVIL LIBERTY
11. 'I DIDN'T RAISE MY SON TO BE A SOLDIER'
12. THEY OPPOSED WHITE AUSTRALIA
13. WARRING AGAINST WAR - SUPPORTING SOLDIERS
14. THE WPA DEMANDED
TERMS OF PEACE BE DECLARED
AND SUBMITTED TO THE PEOPLE
16. THE WPA PROTESTED AGAINST UNEMPLOYMENT
17. THE WPA PROTESTED AGAINST THE COST OF LIVING20. WOMEN'S PEACE ARMY RESOLUTIONS
21. THE WPA ESTABLISHED AND RAN A WOMEN’S UNEMPLOYMENT BUREAU
22. THE WPA ESTABLISHED AND RAN A WOMEN’S FARMING CO-OPERATIVE
24. THE WPA ESTABLISHED AND RAN A WORKERS' COMMUNE
25. THE WPA GREW BEYOND VICTORIA26. THE WPA OPPOSED CONSCRIPTION
27. WOMEN'S PEACE ARMY LEAFLETS28. 80,000 PEOPLE ON YARRA BANK
34. THE ARMISTICE IS NOT PEACE
35. 1919 THE WPA EXPOSED THE BLOCKADE
37. THE WORLD IS SICK UNTO DEATH
39. THE WPA DENOUNCED THE VERSAILLES PEACE TREATY
40. THE WPA REPORTED THE WOMEN’S INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS
41. THE OLD ORDER HAS NOT CHANGED
45. ANZAC - THE SISTERHOOD FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE (1915-1919)
46. ANZAC - THE WOMEN’S POLITICAL ASSOCIATION
48. THE ‘WRONGS UNDER WHICH THEIR COMRADES HAD LIVED’
FIRST WORLD WAR WOMEN
working for peace in Melbourne 1914-1919
16. THE WPA PROTESTED AGAINST UNEMPLOYMENT
By August 1915 food prices were up by 41%
according to the Commonwealth statistician.
============The procession created a sensation, as this was
the first time in history women had made any sort
of political demonstration in defence of their own
rights.
Then the speakers, unemployed women, spoke of
their situation: “Dear Sir, we are here because we
want work, not charity.
My father wouldn’t let me learn a trade or go in
for any profession, because, he said, the home is
the woman’s place, but I lost my home because
the landlord doubled the rent ...
For those of us who have no other source of
income, two days’ work is not enough.”
The Woman Voter 3 June 1915 from
For Love or Money
a woman’s pictorial history of women at work in Australia,
Penguin, 1981 p.70
============
The Argus reported:
Extraordinary scenes were witnessed at Federal
Parliament House yesterday, when a number of
women, headed by Miss Adela Pankhurst,
attempted to storm the House and demand work ...
about one hundred women rushed into the House
shouting “We want work. Adjourn the House.”
Police cleared them out.
It is understood that a number of the women
present had been dismissed from the ammunition
works recently.
The Argus 3 August 1917
=== 17. THE WPA PROTESTED AGAINST THE COST OF LIVING ===