| Bib ID |
572904 |
| Format |
Audio [sound recording] , Online - Google Books |
| Author |
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| Access Conditions |
Written permission of the Labour Council of New South Wales required for research, personal copies and public use. |
| Description |
1988 July 27-1988 Aug. 2
8 sound reels : 3 3/4 ips., mono. ; 5 in.
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| Series |
Labor Council of New South Wales oral history project
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| Summary |
Mr Heffernan, Secretary of the Sheet Metal Workers' Union of Australia, talks of his early life; his trainee apprenticeship; working conditions; experiences as delegate; change to machinery; pattern making; involvement in the NSW Management Committee; Communist Party involvement in the Union; joining the ALP; Tom Wright; Management Committee; working in the Union office; industrial democracy; Chifley government; coal strike; expulsion from the ALP; conciliation and arbitration in the 1940s and 1950s; Evatt; his NSW ALP left steering committee; his readmission to the ALP; industrial groups; ballots; strengths and weaknesses of the ALP; his relations with Laurie Short; nationalization of banking; AICD; peace movement; factions within the ALP; hospital boards; socialist alternative pamphlet; BLF and green bans; cooperation between metal unions; demarcation issues; union officials; Whitlam government; penal clauses; equal pay for women; improvements to the arbitration system; TUTA; shipbuilding industry; effect of union work on family and social life.
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| 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.
DCM record; National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore collection;
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| Index/Finding Aid Note |
Transcript available: (148 p.) |
| Subjects |
Heffernan, Jack, - 1916- - Interviews. | Sheet Metal Workers Union of Australia. - History. | Labor unions - Metal workers - Australia - Interviews. | New South Wales - Social conditions.
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| Other authors/contributors |
Raxworthy, Richard, 1932-2003, Interviewer | Labor Council of New South Wales
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| Related records |
Labor Council of New South Wales oral history project
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