- Bib ID:
- 672799
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Short, Laurie, 1915-2009, 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
- 22 tape reels (ca. 660 min.) : 3 3/4 ips, mono. ; 5 in.
- Series:
- Labor Council of New South Wales oral history project.
- Summary:
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Short, former National Secretary of the Federated Ironworkers' Association of Australia, speaks about his father; his recollections of WWI; his childhood around Camperdown, N.S.W.; the Young Communist League; Unemployed Worker's Movement; Worker's Educational Association; working in Mt Isa in 1935; Trotskyism in Australia; conflict with Stalinists in Balmain branch of FIA, 1945-1947; working conditions at Cockatoo Docks; Judd's Socialist Party; joining ALP in 1942; 1944 and 1949 elections for FIA National Secretary; ALP Industrial Groups; The Movement; the battle with Stalinists for control of the FIA after the 1949 election; Nick Origlass; N.S.W. Labor Council; ACTU congresses; his period as FIA National Secretary, 1951-1982; split in Labor Party; his overseas visits; Australian Congress for Cultural Freedom; Whitlam Government; and his activities since his retirement.
- 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.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Transcript available (typescript, 434 leaves)
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- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1988
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