02612cim a2200349 a 4500001000800000005001700008008004100025019001200066033002300078035001700101035001200118040002900130042000900159043001200168100003000180245006200210260001000272300002600282506013300308518006200441520116400503530010801667555002601775600003801801610011901839650005201958650004802010650004502058650006602103650006002169700003302229285631520110628091749.0911101s1991 xnaccn t eng 1 a843813110a19910711a19910825 9000008438131 91697898 aANL:ObengcANL:OdANL:O aanuc au-at---1 aMundey, Jack,d1932-4ive10aJack Mundey interviewed by Ann Turnerh[sound recording]. c1991. a6 tape reels ;c7 in. aAccess open for research; written permission required for personal copies and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee. aRecorded in Sydney, N.S.W. on 11 July and 25 August 1991. aJack Mundey, unionist, environmentalist, local government Councillor and former Secretary of the NSW Branch of the Builders Labourers Federation, describes his family background and early life in Atherton Tableland region, Qld.; early involvement with peace movement; joining the Builders' Labourers Federation; corruption; membership of Communist Party; militant rank and file; relations with Labor Party; industrial; social, political concerns of BLF; strikes, early 1970s; length of term of office for union officals; green bans; Kelly's bush; scab labour; BLF agreement with National Trust; urban environmentalism; bribery; BLF destabilisation; Norm Gallagher & demise of NSW BLF; Mundey's expulsion from BLF executive; composition of BLF membership; green ban movement; developer corruption; violence; deregistration of BLF; court action against Gallagher; Lundey's involvement in environmental movement; election to Sydney City Council; sacking of SCC, 1987; motor vehicles & greenhouse effect; involvement with Communist Party; capitalism; Gorbachev's resignation as General Secretary of the Communist Party; collapse of socialism; Stalin; nationalism. aDigital master;bNational Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore collection;dnla.oh-2726-00000 aTranscript available.10aMundey, Jack,d1932-vInterviews.20aAustralian Building Construction Employees' and Builders' Labourers' Federation.bNew South Wales BranchxHistory. 0aEnvironmentalistszNew South WalesvInterviews. 0aLabor leaderszNew South WalesvInterviews. 0aCommunistszNew South WalesvInterviews. 0aConstruction workersxLabor unionszNew South WalesxHistory. 0aIndustrial relationszNew South WaleszSydneyxHistory.1 aTurner, Ann,d1929-20114ivr