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

Ross, former member of the Labor Council of New South Wales and the Communist Party of Australia, speaks about his childhood; his father Bob; his brother Lloyd; Victorian Socialist Party; his schooling; joining the Miners' Federation and Labor Party in 1929; socialisation objective; formation of the ACTU; working as a journalist at the Barrier Daily Truth in Broken Hill; life in Broken Hill in 1920s and 1930s; the struggle with Lang for control of the Labor Daily; producing Common Cause; changes in mining industry; 1949 coal miners' strike; his 30 years on Executive of the Labor Council of New South Wales; his membership of the Australian Journalists Association; serving as a delegate to ACTU Congress; illegal period of the Communist Party; his association with the State Labor Party; his activities during World War II; formation of the Socialist Party of Australia; current developments in the Soviet Union; future of socialism in Australia; his wife and family; the Left Book Club; his visits to China and the Soviet Union; his opposition to conscription; and The Movement.