- Bib ID:
- 697574
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Ross, Lloyd (Lloyd Maxwell), 1901-1987, 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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- [1986]
- 5 sound tape reels (ca. 150 min.) : 3 3/4 ips, mono. ; 5 in. + 1 cassette (ca. 30 min. : 1 7/8 ips, mono.)
- Series:
- Labor Council of New South Wales oral history project.
- Summary:
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Dr Lloyd Ross, former Secretary of the Australian Railways Union, speaks about his childhood; Victorian Socialist Party Sunday school; his father's political beliefs; relationship between religion and socialism; his political activities at University; working for the Workers' Educational Association in New Zealand, Newcastle and Sydney; Secretary of the Australian Railways Union; Spanish Civil War; Labor Council in the 1930s; 2KY involvement with the Communist Party; ARU industrial issues, including dieselisation and living conditions for railworkers; appointment to the Ministry of Post-War Reconstruction; Labor Party split.
- 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, 88 leaves)
- Subject:
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