01892cjm a2200289 a 4500001000800000005001700008008004100025019001300066033001300079035001700092035001200109040001300121100002700134245012300161260001000284300005800294500006000352500004800412506013300460518004800593520075500641555008001396600004001476610003401516700002901550984002301579185801720110112161945.0940414s1994 xx n f eng d1 a10824956 a19940305 9000010824956 92186202 aANLbeng1 aMackay, Louise,d1904-10aInterview with Louise Mackay, ex-Communist Party of Australia organiserh[sound recording] /cinterviewer, Ann Turner. c1994. a2 sound tape reels ;c7 in. +etranscript (63 leaves) aCorrected transcript available (typescript, 63 leaves). aWorking duplicate and cassette copies made. aAccess open for research; written permission required for personal copies and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee. aRecorded on Mar. 5, 1994 in Caulfield, Vic. aMackay talks about her schooling at Yarra Park State School and Melbourne High School; Labor parents; introduction to the Communist Party by artist friends in Sydney about 1937 and becoming a Communist Party Central Committe 'functionary'. She then talks about the Marx classes she ran on Australian government and history and the writing of the text, "How Australia is governed." Mackay then talks about working during WWII; Menzies' efforts to ban the Communist Party; visiting Eastern Europe and difficulties encountered in returning to Australia after attending the 2nd World Peace Congress in Warsaw. She then describes her speaking tour in N.S.W. on behalf of the Peace Council and her work as the first Welfare Officer for the Seamen's Union. aSummary available (1 p.) and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 34 leaves)10aMackay, Louise,d1904-vInterviews.20aCommunist Party of Australia.1 aTurner, Ann,d1929-2011. aANLcORAL TRC 3023