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
PROLOGUE === 20. === 22. THE WPA ESTABLISHED AND RAN A WOMEN’S FARMING CO-OPERATIVE
21. THE WPA ESTABLISHED AND RAN A WOMEN’S UNEMPLOYMENT BUREAU
Distress in Melbourne -
a scheme to help unemployed women -
We want to take some practical steps.
We wish to impress upon our readers that Australia is in a very
precarious position. Efforts are being made to deprive the
community of the benefits which the devotion of many lives has
won. There have been wholesale dismissals of employees, which,
in many cases, are quite unjustified ...
We want to take some practical steps. Charity is useless and
harmful. The WPA therefore will attempt to organise the women
workers in industries from which they themselves will draw the
sole profit.
The number of women registering at the WPA bureau continues to
increase, and our little workroom is more than overcrowded.
We hope that the old cry “Women’s place is in the Home” is dead
forever. Nobody can suggest a means by which women can keep
their homes together without working, and work is no longer
forthcoming ...
We now see that the wives who are breadwinners form a
permanent class in the community, whose needs must be
considered and met. They are the first to fall out of employment by
reason of the nature of the work they do.
Woman Voter 16, 25 February 1915 State Library of Victoria
Woman Voter 23 February 1915, Collecting parcels of clothing, State Library of Victoria
=== 22. THE WPA ESTABLISHED AND RAN A WOMEN’S FARMING CO-OPERATIVE ===