Life Summary - Kondelea (Della) Elliott - Labour Australia

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Life Summary

Name	Kondelea Elliott
Alternative Names	Kondelea Aarons Kondelea Xenodohos Kondelea Nicholas
Born	23 December, 1917 Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died	2 October, 2011 (aged 93) Bondi, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Cause of Death	cancer (lung)
Cultural Heritage	Greek Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.
Related Entries	[View as tree] Elliott, Eliot Valens (husband) Aarons, Laurence (husband) Healy, James (colleague) Roach, Edward Charles (colleague) Heagney, Muriel Agnes (collaborator)
Education *	Charters Business College (Sydney) (student, ?-1932)
Occupation or Descriptor *	communist (1935-1980) New South Wales, Australia political activist (1935-2011) New South Wales, Australia women's activist (1935-2011) New South Wales, Australia typist (1937-1940) New South Wales, Australia clerk (1940-1988) New South Wales, Australia trade union official (1940-1948) New South Wales, Australia dog breeder (1950-2000) New South Wales, Australia magazine/journal editor (1955-1988) New South Wales, Australia
Key Events *	Australian Women's Charter (1946) (committee member) coal strike (1949) (union leader)
Legacies *	Della Elliott Prize (Women's College, University of Sydney) (eponym, ?-?)
Key Organisations *	Council of Action for Equal Pay (NSW) (member, ?-?) Jessie Street National Women's Library (supporter, ?-?) Union of Australian Women (NSW) (member, ?-?) Unions NSW (delegate, ?-?) Federated Clerks Union of Australia (NSW) (member, 1936-?) Federated Clerks Union of Australia (NSW) (organiser, 1940-1948) Federated Clerks Union of Australia (NSW) (assistant secretary, 1943-1948) ACTU (delegate, 1945-?) Parents and Citizens Association (NSW) (member, 1960-1979)
Political Activism *	ALP (NSW) (member, ?-?) Young Communist League (NSW) (member, 1935-?) Communist Party (NSW) (member, 1936-?) Equal pay campaign (activist supporting it, 1940-1949)
Workplaces *	Federated Clerks Union of Australia (NSW) (employee, ?-?) Friends of the Soviet Union (NSW) (employee, ?-?) International Labor Defense (NSW) (employee, ?-?) Militant Minority Movement (NSW) (employee, ?-?) Waterside Workers' Federation (federal) (employee, 1938-1955) Seamen's Union of Australia (federal) (office administrator, 1955-1988)

* Dates are approximate