Agent TypePersonActivities & OccupationsCommunistsHistoryLloyd Edmonds was born in London in 1906. The family migrated to Australia in 1912. Lloyd's father was a printer, socialist and trade unionist who joined Tom Mann's Victorian Socialist Party and later created the Ruskin Press in Melbourne with his brother, H.C. Edmonds. Lloyd was influenced by his socialist and pacifist surroundings. In 1928 he became a teacher and began an Arts Degree at Melbourne University where he joined the Labor Club and in 1931 became Secretary of the Sandringham Branch of the Labor Party. He and his brother Phillip helped form the Teacher's Industrial Union and Lloyd became a delegate to the Trades Hall Council in 1935. He was also a long time member of the Communist Party of Australia. In 1935, Lloyd was expelled from the ALP for supporting Maurice Blackburn's stand in favour of sanctions against Italy after Mussolini's invasion of Abyssinia. Lloyd left Australia and enolled at the London School of Economics. In the following year, Lloyd became a driver in a unit of the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War and on his return to Australia worked in the Commonwealth Department of Labour and National Service.
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