{"id":2124,"date":"2007-06-26T23:30:35","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T23:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=2124"},"modified":"2007-06-26T23:30:35","modified_gmt":"2007-06-26T23:30:35","slug":"an-australian-hero-emma-miller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=2124","title":{"rendered":"An Australian hero &#8211; Emma Miller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href = \"http:\/\/www.adb.online.anu.edu.au\/biogs\/A100497b.htm\">This<\/a> is the sort of Australian history I should have been taught in school, but never was&#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;As a shirtmaker, in 1890 Emma Miller helped to form a female workers&#8217; union, mainly of tailoresses. In 1891 she gave evidence to the royal commission into shops, factories and workshops and marched with shearers&#8217; strike prisoners when released. She was the first woman to travel west organizing for the Australian Workers&#8217; Union and was the first woman member and a life member of the Brisbane Workers Political Organization. Emma Miller championed equal pay and equal opportunity for women and was foundation president of the Woman&#8217;s Equal Franchise Association &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And the bit this quasi-official doesn&#8217;t tell you is that she is &#8220;is remembered for sticking her hatpin into the horse that bore the Police Commissioner during the 1912 General Strike&#8221; &#8211; which I learnt from the always wonderful <a href = \"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/bornonthisdate\/\">Born on this Date<\/a> women&#8217;s history email list &#8211; thanks Penny!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the sort of Australian history I should have been taught in school, but never was&#8230;. &#8220;As a shirtmaker, in 1890 Emma Miller helped to form a female workers&#8217; union, mainly of tailoresses. In 1891 she gave evidence to the royal commission into shops, factories and workshops and marched with shearers&#8217; strike prisoners when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-womens-history","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}