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LODIE BENNETT 43109; IWWU resolution sent to British TUC affirming opposition to British rule and calling for theestablishment of an independent government in Ireland, see Fox, op.cit.. pp. 80-81; as secretary of theWomen's International League, she signed the 'Appeal to Women's Association in Other Countries on Behalfof Irish Political Prisoners' which asked for neutrals to visit prisons: Kathleen Napoli McKenna Papers,National Library, Dublin: Ms 22,601.19. Bennett, Proposal/or Labour Policy to Promote a Re-united Ireland. January, 1955.20. See 'Manifesto from the Convention of Irish Women Workers', 15 October, 1922, in Fox, op.cit .• pp. 79-80and also p. 49.21. Fox, op.cit .• p.50-51.22. Bennett to Francis Sheehy-Skeffington, 1 October, 1914 (SS Papers: Ms 22,667i).23. Owens. op.cit.. p. 64.24. ibid .• p.43.25. Irish Citizen. 8 November, 1913.26. Irish Citizen. 22 May, 1915.27. Bennett to Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, 3 September, 1916 in SS Papers: Ms 22,279v.28. Bennett to Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, 12 May, 1915 in SS Papers: Ms 22,675.29. Irish Citizen. 22 May, 1915; see Levenson and Natterstad, op.cit .. p. 59.30. Bennett, 'Ireland and a People's Peace', 27 February, 1918 - a paper read to ajointmeeting of the Women'sInternational League and the Irish section of the Union for Democratic Control, and published as a pamphletlater.31. ITUC, Annual Report. 1918, p. 59.32. Louie Bennett, 'Europe's Enfant Terrible', The Irish Statesman. 7 April 1928; also Louie Bennett. 'Out ofa Rag Bag', Pax International, June, 1927. Pax International was the journal of the Women's InternationalLeague.33. Louie Bennett, 'Internationalism', Irish Citizen. 10 April, 1915.34. Louie Bennett, 'What is Woman's Work?' Irish Citizen. 11 December, 1915.35. Fox,op.cit .. pp. 67-68. See account of her first attendance at anITUC conference in 1916 in Gaughan, op.cit .•p.74.36. HelenaMolony was born in Dublin 1884 and died 28 January, 1967. Molony was an Abbey actress, militantnationalist, officer of the IWWU, and president of the ITUC, 1937. Became editor of Maud Gonne 's Bean nahEireann in 1908 and helped Constance Markievicz to found N a Fianna in 1909. She joined the Citizen Armyand was imprisoned for her part in the attack on Dublin Castle in 1916. She took the Republican side after theTreaty.37. See also Fox, op.cit .• pp. 49,65.38. Louie Bennett, 'Women and Trades Unionism', Irish Citizen. January, 1918.39. Irish Citizen. August, 1917.40. Louie Bennett, 'Is an Irish Women Workers' Union needed?', Irish Citizen. November, 1919.41. See Owens, op.cit .• p. 81; Dermot Keogh, The Rise o/the Irish Working Class. (Dublin, 1982), pp. 63-86.42. Irish Citizen. January 1920; Louie Bennett, 'Women and the Labour Movement', in James Con'nollyCommerationSouvenir, (Dublin Trades Union and LabourCouncil, 11 May 1930). See also Rosemary Owens,, 'Votes for Ladies, Votes for Women': Organised Labour and the Suffrage Movement, 1876-1922', Saothar9, 1983. pp. 37-38.43. IWwU, Annual Report. 1936-37, and 1945.44. See also IWWU response to Commission Report. 1936; Charles McCarthy, Trade Unions in Ireland. 1894-1960, (Dublin, 1977). pp. 150ff. .45. IWWU, Annual Report. 1945.46. Louie Bennett, 'Is an Irish Women Workers' Union needed?'.47. ITUC. Annual Report. 1932, p. 23.48. Cf. Mary E. Daly, 'Women in the Irish Workforce from Pre-industrial to Modern Times', Saothar 7, 1981,pp. 78-9.49. ITUC. Annual Report. 1935, p. 144.50. ITUC, Annual Report. 1941, p. 52; IWWU, Annual Report. 1936-37.51. ITUC, Annual Report. 1942, pp. 14344; see also Mary E. Daly, 'Women, Work and Trade Unionism', inMargaret MacCurtain and Donncha 6 Comiin, eds., Women in Irish Society: The Historical Dimension.(Dublin. 1978). pp. 76-7.52. ibid .• also see ITUC,Annual Report. 1947. p. 74.53 .. See also Mary E. Daly, 'Women. Work and Trade Unionism', op.cit .. pp. 75; cf. debate on night work, ITUC,