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Fingleton, Glen Harold James
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1911 - 1965
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Glen Fingleton was born in 1911 at Waverley, Sydney, New South Wales. He was the son of James Fingleton (1876-1920), tram driver and Labor politician, and Belinda May (Mary), née Webb (1878-1955). He was variously employed as a messenger in the Postmaster-General’s Department, civil servant, clerk, then union secretary.
Fingleton opposed efforts to ban the Communist party during the 1951 referendum. He joined a 1952 trade union delegation to the Soviet Union as a Waterside Workers Federation (WWF) representative thenclashed with the WWF Sydney Branch by publishing a report of the visit that was critical of the Soviet Union.
Fingleton died in 1965 at Glebe Island.
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Labour Australia https://labouraustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/fingleton-glen-harold-33641 accessed 14 June 2024