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Frank Bollins interviewed by Richard Raxworthy in the Labor Council of New South Wales oral history project [sound recording]
Bib ID 2602022
Format AudioAudio [sound recording]
Author
Bollins, Frank, 1918-, Interviewee
 
Access Conditions Written permission from the Labor Council of New South Wales required for research, personal copies and public use. 
Description 1987 
9 sound tape reels (ca. 268 min.) : 3 3/4 ips, mono. ; 5 in. 
Series

Labor Council of New South Wales oral history project

Summary

Bollins, former New South Wales President-Organiser of the Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union (Australia), speaks about his childhood during the 1920s; the Depression; living conditions; apprentice tinsmith with NSW Railways; Workers' Educational Association; early union activities ; early involvement with Communist Party; Council of Railway Shop Committees; his attitude to ALP and the Industrial Groups; becoming a union organiser in 1959; Communist Party of Australia; role of Labor Council of New South Wales; relations with other unionists; involvement with the Electricity Commission of New South Wales; becoming New South Wales President-Organiser of the Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union (Australia); the future of unionism in Australia; his achievements as a union official; factionalism and the Labor Council; arbitration; asbestos; 1949 miners' strike; Labor governments; and interesting people he met during his life.

Notes

Part of a collection of interviews with former and present trade union leaders, produced as a joint project by the Labor Council of New South Wales and the National Library of Australia.

Transcript unavailable.

Working duplicate and cassette copies made.

Recorded on 16 and 22 December 1987

DCM record; National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore collection;

Subjects Bollins, Frank, - 1918- - Interviews.  |  Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union (Australia)  |  Communist Party of Australia - History.  |  Sheet Metal Working, Agricultural Implement and Stovemaking Industrial Union of Australia. - N.S.W. Branch.  |  Communists - Australia - Interviews.  |  Labor leaders - New South Wales - Interviews.  |  Labor unions - Metal-workers - New South Wales.
Other authors/contributors Raxworthy, Richard, 1932-2003, Interviewer  |  Labor Council of New South Wales  |  National Library of Australia

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