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Collection Summary

Creator:
Title: Thomas Walsh and Adela Pankhurst Walsh papers, 1905-1961 [manuscript].
Date Range: 1905 - 1961
Collection number: MS 2123
Extent: 2.13 m.

 

Introduction

Scope and Content

Contains typescript articles, addresses and broadcasts by both Walshes on political and social issues significant in Australia's inter-war years such as strike, arbitration, Russia and communism, friendship with Japan and women's rights; papers on the Federated Seamen's Union of Australasia which include Accounts of the N.S.W. Branch, 1912, the General President's Weekly Expenditure Books for 1925 and 1926, a Register of Members for 1929, articles on court cases, minutes of meetings in 1925 and 1929, and papers on the industrial dispute at Innisfail in 1922; a few papers on the Australian Seamen's Union, including a draft constitution and rules; correspondence dating from 1906 containing union and personal letters; roneod and printed items such as The Voice of the People and The People Guild bulletins and International Anti-Communist Entente literature; and photographs relating to the feminist movement in Great Britain.

Background

Adela Pankhurst Walsh: Feminist. Activist in the Australia First movement and the Australian Women's Guild of Empire. Daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst. Thomas Walsh: Trade union leader. General Secretary, Federated Seamen's Union of Australasia, 1919-1921 and General President, 1921-1926.

 

Preferred Citation

Items from this collection should be cited as [manuscript item title], Thomas Walsh and Adela Pankhurst Walsh papers, 1905-1961 [manuscript]., National Library of Australia, MS 2123, [manuscript item number].

 

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