 Eva and Joseph moved to Sydney in 1903 and Eva joined the Labour League at Waverley before helping to form the Surry Hills league in 1906.A founding member of the Labor Women's Central Organising Committee (LWCOC) (1904), she succeeded Edith Bethel as secretary in 1909 and served until 1922.A campaigner for increased pay for women, she became president of the Domestic Workers Union in 1913.