People Australia

Alice Jackson, n.d.

Westralian Worker (Perth), 7 August 1942, p 4

Alice Elizabeth Jackson, née Pole (1877-1946) community worker and Labor activist

Birth: 1877 at Christchurch, New Zealand, daughter of Thomas Pole (1850-1906), baker, and Catherine, née [Grove]. Both parents had been born in Sileby, Leicestershire, England. Marriage: 1900 at South Melbourne to Henry Charles Jackson (1873-1944), a plasterer, born at Mobrup, Kojonup shire, Western Australia. They had one daughter and three sons. Death: 21 September 1946 in her residence at Henly Street, Como, Western Australia. Religion: Methodist. 

• Through her parents, she became interested in conditions of working class from childhood.
• Resided in Victoria for sixteen years. Moved to Western Australia about 1903.
• With her husband she was a member of the South Fremantle branch of the Australian Labor Party from 1932. Active in Fremantle Labor Women's Organisation as vice president, treasurer and president in the 1930s and 1940s.
• Was Rope and Twine Workers delegate to Fremantle District Council and WA Labor Women's Central Executive. Represented Fremantle women at WA ALP Congress in 1941.
• Active in community affairs, visitor to hospitals, senior vice-president Fremantle RSL, Red Cross, and rank and file worker in election campaigns and Fremantle ALP.
• Assisted nursing in maternity ward during 1919 influenza pandemic. Treasurer of unemployed sewing circle during Depression.
• Cause of death: uraemia and cardiac failure.

Sources
Westralian Worker, 7 August 1942; Battye Library Biographical Index.