PHILLIPS, Marion

 Person: id 87027
University connections
UMelb
Event flag
World War I
Family name
PHILLIPS
Given name(s)
Marion
Initials
M.
Gender
Female
Survived
Survived WWI
OCRd book entry or other narrative
Not listed on the Roll of Active Service. Working in London during the war she was on the committee of the Women's Training and Employment Committee, and a member of the Consumers' Council of the Ministry of Food.  By 1914 she was effectively running the Women's Labour League and was elected to the Labour Party's War Emergency Workers' National Committee to organize the working-class response to the war. She negotiated the terms on which the Women's Labour League was incorporated into the reconstituted Labour Party in 1918.
Visible notes
Phillips was the first Australian woman to win a seat in a national parliament, and the only one to have been elected to the House of Commons. FROM ADB
ADB Entry ID
8036
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