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Political and personal papers, correspondence (including with Edna Ryan), diaries, note books, minutes, press cuttings, and printed material.

Correspondents include R Bond (Secretary, Cessnock Group), Edna Ryan, EM Higgins, Joy Higgins and Jock Garden. Draft articles are about the Newtown evictions, timber workers, the Italo-Abyssinian dispute, the Stakhanovist Movement, and Max Schachtman's The People's Front.

The cuttings are from the following publications: Sydney Morning Herald, Labor Daily, Workers' Weekly, Truth, The Sun, The Argus, Smiths Weekly, the Daily Telegraph, the Amalgamated Printing Trades Union Review, and Christian Science Monitor. Topics covered include: Federal and New South Wales State politics, Sir Otto Niemeyer's report, communist activity in trade unions, Imperial Conference 1930, timber workers, Wonthaggi miners, Australian Labor Party conferences, German fascism, Singapore base, and British and Russian workers.

Includes cables between Jock Garden, Prime Minister SM Bruce, Duggan (President) and Crofts (Secretary) of Australian Council of Trade Unions and minutes of meetings of the ACTU Emergency Committee and the Committee appointed by the Maritime Unions' Conference.