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

Mr Keenahan, union official, talks of his early life; the Depression; first work experiences; becoming an apprenticed electrical fitter; working conditions; lack of training; university tutorial group lectures; becoming shop steward; shop committee meetings; radar work during World War II; being organiser for the Electrical Trades Union; industrial group formation; ALP's involvement in the industrial group; propaganda; strikes and negotiation; the ETU as a team; court advocacy; removal of Jack Kane from office; Arbitration Court; Trades Union Congress in England; Labor Council meetings; Labor Council personalities; the WEA; his ILO scholarship; overseas trade union systems; DLP; being education officer at ICI; working in Nigeria and Uganda; training officer for the Electricity Commission; Eddie Ward; Chifley and the coal strike; Barnard and Whitlam; need for leaders to have business experience; effectiveness of a manager.