| Bib ID |
681258 |
| Format |
Audio [sound recording] , Online - Google Books |
| Author |
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| Access Conditions |
Written permission required from the Labor Council of New South Wales for research, personal copies and public use. |
| Description |
1985
5 sound tape reels (ca. 150 min.) : 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 |
McPhillips, trade union official and Communist, speaks about his family and early life; first job at Sydney City Council; entertainment in the 1920s; Colgate-Palmolive Peet Company; Australian Workers Union; joining the Labor Party; unemployment during the Depression; union organiser for Factory Department of AWU; AWU opposition groups; joining the Communist Party of Australia; Unemployed Workers Association; evictions; North Australian Workers' Union; Arbitration Agent for Federated Ironworkers; 1949 Coal Strike; Ernie Thornton; Laurie Short; imprisonment; Communism; formation of the Socialist Party of Australia.
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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.
Working duplicate and cassette copies made.
Recorded in Sydney, New South Wales on 5 December 1985.
DCM record; National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore collection;
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| Index/Finding Aid Note |
Transcript available (typescript, 81 leaves) |
| Subjects |
McPhillips, Jack - Interviews. | Communist Party of Australia - History. | Federated Ironworkers' Association of Australia - History. | Coal Strike, Australia, 1949. | Communists - Australia - Interviews. | Labor unions - Iron and steel workers - New South Wales. | Labor unions - New South Wales - Officials and employees - Interviews. | New South Wales - Social conditions - 1929-1939.
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| Other authors/contributors |
Raxworthy, Richard, 1932-2003, Interviewer | Labor Council of New South Wales | National Library of Australia
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| Related records |
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