- Bib ID:
- 726343
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Cambourn, Jack, 1928-2015, 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
- 10 tape reels (ca. 306 min.) : 3 3/4 ips, mono. ; 5 in.
- Series:
- Labor Council of New South Wales oral history project.
- Summary:
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Cambourn, National Secretary of the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen's Association of Australasia, speaks about his childhood in Balmain during the Depression; his parents and their communist views; his schooling; Eureka Youth League; his early jobs; Balmain Branch of the Federated Ironworkers Association; the Communist Party of Australia; Labor Government; 1949 coal strike; working in the Holden factory in South Australia; joining the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen's Association; time as FEDFA organiser; changes in the Communist Party; ALP Industrial Groups; FEDFA relations with the FIA; FEDFA deregistration in 1948, 1953 and 1959; rebuilding the FEDFA after the 1959 deregistration; the New South Wales Labor Council and delegates; Unsworth Government; Jack Mundey and the Green Bans; Whitlam Government; relations of FEDFA with the Builders' Labourers' Federation; immigrants and unionism; corruption.
- 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.
- Part of interview may have been conducted by Frank Farrell.
- Recorded on 13, 14 and 22 April 1988.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Uncorrected transcript (typescript, 125 leaves) available.
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- Creation date:
- 1988
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