Annie Westbrook was secretary of the IWW Perth Local during world war one and worked tirelessly on behalf of the men arrested on the conspiracy trial in West Australia in 1916. She was a close friend of the Eureka Stockade veteran and IWW pioneer Monty Miller. In 1917, with the persecution of the IWW and the framing of its leading militants she went to the Eastern States to lend a hand. The IWW did not treat her fairly and she was expelled in 1929 from the Sydney branch. Subsequent requests for re-admittance were denied her. If the organization failed, however, she did not. She continued distributing
Industrial Worker and giving people the correct I.W.W. line through the thirties, forties and into the fifties when she was over eighty years old.
