Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1922 - 1985 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
1 m
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Phil Thorne was born in Melbourne in 1908 and was employed as a solicitor’s clerk until 1927. Following a period of farming in Queensland, he became a clerk in the offices of Jack Wishart, a Sydney solicitor interested in social causes. In late 1930 he joined the Friends of the Soviet Union and was a member of International Class-War Prisoners Aid. Thorne was editor of Labour Defender, the journal of the International Labour Defence, and in 1936 was elected Secretary of the Spanish Relief Committee, an organisation formed in Sydney on 26 August 1936 by the Movement Against War and Fascism and the International Labour Defence. Thorne was active in the SRC until it disbanded at the outbreak of World War II.
Repository
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Records of the Spanish Relief Committee, including minutes, correspondence, circulars, extracts from the diary of Una Wilson, a volunteer nurse sent to Spain by the SRC, photographs and printed material; case files of the legal firm Christian Jollie Smith & Co relating to the Rothbury Miners’ Riot Case, 1930, and the Newtown and Glebe Eviction Riot Case, 1931. Jollie Smith, a founding member of the Communist Party of Australia, was acting for the International Class War Prisoners Aid in these cases.
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Researchers must sign an access agreement
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Digitised copies of photographs and selected documents at http://hdl.handle.net.virtual.anu.edu.au/1885/733712350
Related units of description
Notes area
Alternative identifier(s)
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
Genre access points
Description control area
Description identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Dates of creation revision deletion
Entered from deposit description on 21 August 2012