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
24. THE WPA ESTABLISHED AND RAN A WORKERS' COMMUNE
The strike situation grows worse daily,
in spite of the evidence to the contrary in the papers,
which would make us believe that the workers
are a mere excrescence on the community,
that it doesn’t matter at all
whether 60,000 men cease work -
their places can readily be filled by “loyalists” -
schoolboys, clerks and women.
Woman Voter 30 August 1917 State Library of Victoria
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What Have We Done?
Miss Cecilia John, with her phenomenal business ability,
(made) far reaching proposals
for establishing a Workers’ Commune at the Guild Hall ...
working to change the system,
otherwise the help given is only a disguised form of charity.
Miss John quickly organised a Registration Depot, Kitchens,
Restaurant, Boot shops, Barbers’ Saloon, Recreation Hall,
Grocer’s Shop, Baker’s Shop, with an army of volunteers ...
providing 60,000 food parcels;
30,000 meals;
6,500 haircuts;
30,000 items of clothing;
2,000 pairs of boots;
200 cases of confinement or illness cared for.
Woman Voter 8 November 1917 State Library of Victoria
Guild Hall, now called Storey Hall, RMIT, Swanston Street Melbourne 1963
=== 25. THE WPA GREW BEYOND VICTORIA ===