Lizzie Ahern, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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(1877-1969) socialist propagandist
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Place of Birth: Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
About Lizzie Ahern
- Elizabeth (Lizzie) Ahern (19 October 1877 - 7 April 1969), was a political activist, trade unionist and socialist from Australia.Ahern was born in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia on 19 October 1877.
- Her father, Edmund Ahern, was a gold miner, and her mother was Eliza, née Kiely; both were from Ireland.
- Ahern left school when she was 14 years old, and worked as a pupil-teacher and then moved to Melbourne, where she worked in domestic service as a cook.Ahern joined the Abbotsford branch of the Political Labor Council in 1904, and the Social Questions Committee, later renamed the Victorian Socialist Party, the following year.
- The Victorian Socialist Party was primarily interested in education and free speech and ran weekly meetings in the Bijou Theatre that often attracted crowds of more than 1,000 people.
- It also held meetings at Yarra Bank, which could attract tens of thousands.
- Ahern was one of the Party's most popular and effective speakers and spoke at their meetings on street corners as well as in rural areas.
- In November 1906 she was arrested and jailed for ten days; she had been campaigning for the Free Speech Campaign, which defended the right to speak in public places.Ahern was a member of the Victorian Socialist Party's executive committee in 1906-08, 1910 and 1917-18; in 1906-07 she was a vice-president.
- She was a delegate to the Political Labor Council's annual conference in 1907 and helped to establish the Domestic Workers' Union and the Women's Socialist League.
- During World War I she campaigned against conscription and in 1916 she became secretary of the Women's Anti-Conscription Committee.Ahern remained active with the Labor Women's Central Organizing Committee until 1934, and was a delegate to the first interstate conference of Labor women in 1929 and secretary to its executive in 1930.
- She became a Justice of the Peace and a children's court magistrate.
- Ahern was a member of the party's Albert Park branch until she died on 7 April 1969.
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