Jack McPhillips interviewed by Richard Raxworthy in the Labor Council of New South Wales oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 681258
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- McPhillips, Jack, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Written permission required from the Labor Council of New South Wales for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1985 Dec. 5
- 5 sound tape reels (ca. 141 min.) : 3 3/4 ips, mono ; 5 in.
- Series:
- Labor Council of New South Wales oral history project.
- Summary:
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McPhillips, trade union official and Communist, speaks about his family and early life; first job at Sydney City Council; entertainment in the 1920s; Colgate-Palmolive Peet Company; Australian Workers Union; joining the Labor Party; unemployment during the Depression; union organiser for Factory Department of AWU; AWU opposition groups; joining the Communist Party of Australia; Unemployed Workers Association; evictions; North Australian Workers' Union; Arbitration Agent for Federated Ironworkers; 1949 Coal Strike; Ernie Thornton; Laurie Short; imprisonment; Communism; formation of the Socialist Party of Australia.
- 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.
- Recorded in Sydney, New South Wales on 5 December 1985.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary and transcript (typescript, 81 leaves) available.
- Subject:
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- McPhillips, Jack -- Interviews
- Communist Party of Australia -- History
- Federated Ironworkers' Association of Australia -- History
- Coal Strike, Australia, 1949
- Communists -- Australia -- Interviews
- Labor unions -- Iron and steel workers -- New South Wales
- Labor unions -- New South Wales -- Officials and employees -- Interviews
- New South Wales -- Social conditions -- 1929-1939
- Other authors/contributors:
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This belongs to the Labor Council of New South Wales oral history project.
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- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1985
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