- Bib ID:
- 1844935
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Origlass, N. (Nick), interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Written permission from the Labor Council of New South Wales required for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1988
- 13 tape reels (ca. 390 min.) : 3 3/4 ips, mono. ; 5 in.
- Series:
- Labor Council of New South Wales oral history project.
- Summary:
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Origlass, former President of the Ironworkers Union, speaks about the political influences during his childhood in Queensland; early employment and union involvement; the Communist Party; Trotskyists and the Workers' Party of Australia; Queensland Trades and Labor Council; participatory democracy; Queensland Branch of the Builder's Labourers Union; his opposition to World War Two; waterfront strike in 1945; Laurie Short; Ironworkers Union; New South Wales Labor Council; 1949 coal strike; Whitlam Government; Builders' Labourers Federation; Leichhardt Council; arbitration system; relations between unions and Labor governments; socialism.
- Notes:
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- 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.
- Recorded from 21 September to 21 October 1988.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Transcript available (typescript, 169 leaves)
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- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1988
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