Harry Quinn interviewed by Richard Raxworthy in the Labor Council of New South Wales oral history project [sound recording]

Mr Quinn, National President, Transport Workers' Union of Australia, talks of his early life in Sydney; early influences; work during the Depression; working at CSR; Dick Carling; World War II service in 36th Battalion; Kakoda Trail; truck driving for CSR; becoming a union official; industrial groups and the communists; miners' strike; campaign for Sydney taxi drivers; Jack Kane; membership campaign; section 88E; raising membership; containers; Wran and the condition of roads; airline industry; airline disputes; delegate to the Labor Council; John Ducker; caucusing; right and left wing factions; deals in hotels; Master Carriers; Alan Jones; rates for owner drivers; goodwill issue; takeovers; Peter Abeles; Lindsay Fox; blockades; negotiating with governments; south coast coal; black bans on wharves; containerisation; demarcation at Yennora; Labor Council and demarcation; support for other unions; relations with Waterside Workers; relations with the Communist Party; Wally Buckley; George Splayford ; Labor council relations with the ALP; Milton Morris; Peter Cox; advising Ministers; penal clauses; secondary boycotts legislation; illegal strikes; superannuation; Labor Party membership; investments and buildings; proposed amalgamation with the Storemen and Packers Union; the accord and the ACTU; tax summit; thoughts on faction fighting.