Rose Summerfield

Rose Summerfield , also known as Rose Cadogan and Rose Hummer , (born April 18, 1864 in Middleton Creek , Victoria , Australia , † April 14, 1922 in Villarrica , Paraguay ) was an Australian feminist , trade unionist and labor leader.

Private life

Rose Summerfield was the third child of John Stone, a Polish miner and his Irish wife Mary. On March 23, 1886, she married Henry Lewis Summerfield, a British tailor, and moved with him to the Sydney suburb of Waverley , where she gave birth to a son in 1887. Henry died in 1890, and on September 22, 1897 she married John Cadogan, a cook and mine manager, with whom they had four children. Among them was Leon, who, like his mother, campaigned for social rights and for the indigenous population of Paraguay as well as conducted anthropological studies.

Australia

Summerfield became politically active in the mid-1880s in the Australasian Secularist Association (ASA), which was under the influence of Joseph Symes . 1886 became active as a Sunday teacher for the ASA in Melbourne . She has written for several socially engaged magazines such as the Democrat , Liberator and Northern People ; as Rose Hummer , she wrote in Hummer and its follow-up Sydney Worker .

She became the leading organizer of women workers in 1892 and built a women's division in the Australian Workers' Union . Their political success collapsed in Australia's first economic and banking crisis of 1890. From 1892 to 1896 she continued to be active in the Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales and in the Waverley union and in disputes for workers' rights. She became a member of the Australian Socialist League (ASL).

He was also committed to alcohol prohibition and wrote a paper Woman's Place in the Temperance Movement .

Her work Gospel of Discontent or  Master and Man on colonial capitalism became better known in the Australian labor movement .

New Australia

After she was disillusioned with the Australian labor movement and the politics of the Australian Labor Party and left the ASL, she and her husband moved to the early socialist colony of New Australia in Paraguay in April 1897 , where she was disappointed by the attitude of the Paraguayan population and left 1908 New Australia . They opened a trading business with Yataity , and when the family decided to return to Australia, shortly before their departure, a bank mistake caused them to lose all their financial assets and had to stay in Paraguay. Rose Summerfield died of cancer in Villarrica and was buried in Ovejas Cemetery in New Australia .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} adb.online.anu.edu.au : Summerfield, Rose Anna ( 1864-1922 ) , in English, accessed on June 2, 2011
2. ↑ historycooperative.org ( Memento from December 12, 2005 in the Internet Archive ): Mark Hearn: Rose Summerfield's Gospel of Discontent: a Narrative of Radical Identity in Late Nineteenth Century Australia (with picture by Rose Summerfield (1890)), in English, Retrieved June 2, 2011