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AU NBAC N331
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- 1991 (Creation)
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4 sound cassettes (1 type 2 box)
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John McGuire interviewed Edgar Ross and Claude Jones, both were members of the Communist Party of Australia, in 1991. McGuire also wrote the entry for Max Nordau Julius for the Australian Dictionary of Biography.
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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.
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Entered from deposit description on 27 September 2011; revised by Phuong Dang in June 2016
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Edgar Ross biography, http://www.cpa.org.au/biographies/edgar-ross/bio-edgar-ross.pdf
Australian Trade Union Archives, http://www.atua.org.au/archives/Larc01360.htm