 Defeated by Mary Rogers for the post of Labor women's organiser in 1919, she was elected a delegate to the 1921 federal conference and later that year was elected to the central executive and as a delegate to the All Australia Trade Union Congress, also publishing a series of articles on the Australian anti-conscription movement in the Seattle "Union Record".At the 1922 federal election she stood as the first female Labor Party candidate in Victoria, unsuccessfully contesting the safe conservative seat of Kooyong.Finally being elected women's organiser in 1926, Daley was instrumental in the formation of the Labor Women's Interstate Executive in 1929 (secretary, 1930–47) and continued to be highly active in the union movement throughout the 1930s.