Our roll of honor, in memoriam, Mrs Auguste Zadow |
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| Title : | Our roll of honor, in memoriam, Mrs Auguste Zadow |
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| Source : | Weekly Herald, 17 July 1896, p. 1,col. b-c | ||
| Place Of Creation : | 1896 | ||
| Format : | Newspaper | ||
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| Description : |
Feature marking the death of Auguste Zadow, Working Women's Trades Union delegate to the United Trades and Labor Council and South Australia's first women appointed as Inspectress under the Factories Act. Born at Runkel-on-the Lahn, Germany, Auguste travelled widely in Europe before marrying Heinrich Zadow in England in May 1871. They arrived in South Australia aboard the Robert Lee in 1877. A founding member of the Working Women's Trade Union in 1890, she managed the Distressed Women and Children's Fund established by the Women's Union and the Trades and Labor Council, before her appointment as Inspectress in 1896. She contracted influenza and died on 7 July 1896. |
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| Related names : | Zadow, Auguste |
| Coverage year : | 1896 |
| Further reading : | A woman of difference : Augusta Zadow and the 1894 Factories Act, Christine Finnimore, 1995 Sound of trumpets : history of the labour movement in South Australia, Moss, Jim, Wakefield Press, 1985 |
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