Oral history interviews with Edgar Ross & Claude Jones (audio tapes). Edgar Ross was born on 20 November 1904; brother of union leader Lloyd Ross; Editor of Common Cause; member of the Communist Party of Australia; member of the Miners' Federation since 1929; appointed Amenities Officer, Miners' Federation and involved in the 1949 National Miners Strike; editor of the Miners Union Newspaper; thirty years on the Executive of the Labor Council of New South Wales; member of the Australian Journalists' Association; serving as a delegate to ACTU Congress. Claude Jones was Queensland president of the Communist Party of Australia and a national CPA figure. He was an unsuccessful CPA candidate for the 1953 New South Wales state elections, and Queensland candidate for the 1954 and 1955 federal elections.