Allen Cox interviewed by John Shields in the NSW Bicentennial oral history collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2050075
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Cox, Allen, 1902-, 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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- 1987 Apr. 3 - Apr. 14
- 4 sound cassettes (ca. 240 min.) : 1 7/8 ips.
- Series:
- NSW Bicentennial oral history collection.
- Summary:
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Born at Hurstville, NSW, Cox speaks of parent's and family background; extended family; homes and childhood at Hurstville, Newtown and Breadalbane in the country; father's employment; memories of World War I; conscription referendum; recreation; family life; social life; holidays; family relationships; church; health; school and education in Sydney and country; leaving school; experiences as an apprentice at John Heine and Son metal trade, unions, management, workers and conditions; attending technical college; military training; finding work; losing job, life during the Depression on dole; working as a turner in printing trade; working at Duly and Hansford a company making nuts, bolts and automotive parts, work conditions, his involement in unions; union activities, members, disputes, experiences as a shop stewards' conveyor; marriage; his wife and her background; homes; father's memories of Boer War; politics; 1917 general strike.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Recorded by the NSW Bicentennial Oral History Project, funded by a bicentennial grant to the NSW Council on the Ageing and the Oral History Association of Australia (NSW).
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-216184926
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary and transcript available.
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This belongs to the NSW Bicentennial oral history collection.
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- Until 2057 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1987
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