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Life Summary

Name	Florence Amy Cluff
Alternative Names	Florence Amy Kershaw Florence Amy Davis
Born	4 November, 1902 Chillagoe, Queensland, Australia
Died	20 September, 1990 (aged 87) Kogarah, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Cause of Death	heart disease
Cultural Heritage	English 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] Heagney, Muriel Agnes (colleague) Dixon, Richard (colleague)
Education *	Cairns High school (Qld) (student, 1917-1919)
Occupation or Descriptor *	schoolteacher (1919-1921) Queensland, Australia cook (1935-1940) New South Wales, Australia waiter (1935-1940) New South Wales, Australia communist (1937-1990) New South Wales, Australia women's activist (1937-1990) New South Wales, Australia trade union official (1940-1968) New South Wales, Australia social reformer (1976-1990) New South Wales, Australia
Awards	Medal of the Order of Australia (recipient, 1984)
Key Organisations *	ACTU (delegate, ?-?) Union of Australian Women (NSW) (vice president, ?-?) Hotel Club Restaurant Caterers Tea Rooms & Boarding House Employees Union of New South Wales (member, 1935) Council of Action for Equal Pay (NSW) (member, 1937-?) Unions NSW (delegate, 1939-1969) Hotel Club Restaurant Caterers Tea Rooms & Boarding House Employees Union of New South Wales (organiser, 1940-1941) Hotel Club Restaurant Caterers Tea Rooms & Boarding House Employees Union of New South Wales (assistant secretary, 1941-1945) Hotel Club Restaurant Caterers Tea Rooms & Boarding House Employees Union of New South Wales (secretary, 1945-1961) Federated Liquor & Allied Industries Employees Union of Australia (NSW) (assistant secretary, 1961-1968) Australian Pensioners and Superannuants Federation (NSW) (assistant secretary, 1979) Australian Pensioners and Superannuants Federation (NSW) (secretary, 1980-1988)
Political Activism *	Communist Party (NSW) (member, 1937-?)

* Dates are approximate