Continuing research into using Women’s Work as a form of protest, this article about using knitting as a protest is from 1945.

Staged Sit-Down Knitting Strike
CANBERRA, Thurs.; — The timber investigator in the Prices Commission, Miss. V. Shaw, gained her release to a job she wanted by staging a sit-down knitting strike for a week.
Miss Shaw, who is a Bachelor of Commerce of the Tasmanian University, said to-day manpower refused to allow her to transfer to another job. They wanted to transfer her to the textile investigations, but she believed she had some rights, and told them
they could accept her resignation. Miss Shaw said nothing happened about her resignation for three months. To decide matters she then staged her “knit-down” strike. “I remained in my office for a week doing nothing but knitting. The release then came along pretty- quickly,” she said.

Staged Sit–Down Knitting Strike (1945, August 10). Daily Examiner (Grafton, NSW : 1915 – 1954), p. 3. Retrieved October 11, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article195748355