Victor Bird interviewed by Suzanne Lunney [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 1158416
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Bird, Vic, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research; written permission required for personal copies and public use from the interviewee's executor.
- Description:
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- 1976
- 2 tape reels : 1 7/8 ips ; 5 in.
- Summary:
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Bird, a Communist activist, speaks about his family background; his memories of 1918/1919 strike at Broken Hill; his father's radical socialist views; the Militant Minority Movement; living conditions in Newcastle during the Depression; Communist activities during the Depression in unions and for the unemployed; the basis of his opinions, ideas and values; the organisation and administration of the Communist Party; principle of democratic centralism; relations between Communist Party and Labor Party; his own activities for the Party; and the Communist struggle for peace.
- Notes:
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- Recorded in Kew, Victoria on 12 January 1976.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 85 leaves).
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Lunney, Suzanne, interviewer
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2046 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1976
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