Louie Bennett

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Louie Bennett (1870 – 1956) was an Irish suffragette, Trades Unionist and journalist and writer born in Ireland. In 1927 she was the first woman to be elected President of the Irish Trades Union Conference and in the same year was elected to the executive committee of the Labour Party.^[1] She was also a founder member of the Irish Women Workers' Union.

On 20 November 1935 the Irish Women Workers' Union under Bennett staged street protests against discriminatory sections of Seán Lemass's Conditions of Employment bill.^[2]

In later life she campaigned against nuclear power.

References

↑ Fox, R.M. (1958). Louis Bennett: Her Life and Times. Dublin: Talbot Press.
↑ Dean, Carpenter, Williams: Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, Vol. V, p. 131

Political offices
Preceded by Helena Moloney	Secretary of the Irish Women Workers' Union 1917–1955	Succeeded by Helen Chenevix
Preceded by Denis Cullen	President of the Irish Trade Union Congress 1932	Succeeded by Seán Campbell
Preceded by John Swift	President of the Irish Trade Union Congress 1948	Succeeded by James Larkin, Jnr

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Name	Bennett, Louie
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Date of birth	1870
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Date of death	1956
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Louie Bennett

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