People Australia

Life Summary [details]

Alternative Names

• Miles, Elizabeth

Birth

30 December, 1882
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Death

26 August, 1963 (aged 80)
Peakhurst, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Cultural Heritage

Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.

• American
• Irish

Occupation

• anti-conscriptionist
• charity worker
• newspaper editor
• socialist
• trade union official
• women's activist

Awards

• Member of the Order of the British Empire

Legacies

• Betsy Women's Refuge (Bankstown, Sydney)

Key Organisations

• Australian Socialist Party (NSW)
• Bankstown Hospital (Sydney)
• Industrial Workers of the World (NSW)
• International Socialists (Sydney)
• Labor Women's Central Organising Committee (NSW)
• One Big Union of Unemployed (NSW)
• Unemployed Workers' Union (NSW)
• International Socialist Club (Sydney)

Political Activism

• ALP (NSW)
• anti-conscriptionist