Ted Roach interviewed by Stephen Rapley in the NSW Bicentennial oral history collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2168849
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Roach, Ted, 1909-, 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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- 1988 Feb. 2
- 3 sound cassettes (ca. 135 min.) : 1 7/8 ips.
- Series:
- NSW Bicentennial oral history collection.
- Summary:
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Born on Coaldale Station on NSW South Coast, Roach speaks of his parent's background; brothers and sisters; grandparents; family homes and living conditions; father's employment as a coal miner; local community around Scarborough Mine; family life; school; childhood games; father being victimised at work for union involvement and during 1917 strike; family moving north; family discipline; baths; family relationships; father's politics; celebrating 8 hour day; family meals and diet; chores; religion; running a fruit cart in Newcastle area, work and conditions; experiences selling fruit; leaving home; employment in sugar mill in Queensland, conditions and work there; being unemployed and secretary of Unemployed Workers Movement in Mackay; unemployed lifestyle during Depression; becoming a member of Communist Party; conditions for the unemployed; unemployed strike; lifestyle collecting food and living in tin shed with other unemployed workers; finding work; travelling; working for Communist Party whilst on dole, experiences as a trade union organiser; Federated Iron Workers Union, Minority Movement, thugs and threats; issues faced as leader of Waterside Workers Union; working conditions at Port Kembla; union opposition; union activities of 1930s; union officials.
- 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-216350072
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (4 p.) and transcript available: 3 v. (40 p., 32 p., 4 p.).
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- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1988
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