Sonny Glynn interviewed by Wendy Lowenstein in the Communists and the Left in the arts and community oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 667603
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Glynn, Sonny, 1915-2006, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1993 Nov. 25
- 1 digital audio tape (ca. 92 min.)
- Series:
- Communists and the Left in the arts and community oral history project.
- Summary:
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Sonny Glynn, former waterside worker and artist, speaks of growing up in Sydney during the Depression; life as a swagman; temporary imprisonment in Cootamundra Gaol for jumping train; job as coal trimmer; employment at Port Kembla dockyards; Ted Roach & 'gang scheme' for fair apportionment of work; Dalfram dispute; involvement in art works for union movement on Sydney waterfront; cellar room near Communist Party bookshop, Sussex Street; the film Evens; Studio of Realist Art; union relations with police; Wharfies' Art Group; composition of Sydney wharfies' mural; relocation of the mural; other waterfront artists and art works, incl. May Day banners; payment for union art; Tom Nelson; Waterside Workers Film Unit; wharfie films & film showings; artistic and other talents of wharf labourers.
- Biography/History:
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Born in 1915, Glynn left school at the time of the Depression, working on the track before gaining employment on the Port Kembla waterfront. He transferred to the Sydney dockside in 1940 where his artistic skills were used in union actions and in projects such as the Sydney wharfies' mural.
- Notes:
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- Recorded in Granville, N.S.W. on 25 November 1993.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-205016163
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary available.
- Subject:
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- Glynn, Sonny, 1915-2006 -- Interviews
- Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia. Sydney Branch -- History
- Stevedores -- New South Wales -- Interviews
- Artists -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Interviews
- Labor unions and the arts -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- History
- Mural painting and decoration -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- History
- Labor movement in art
- Other authors/contributors:
- Lowenstein, Wendy, 1927-2006, interviewer
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- Until 2063 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1993
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