Farrall, Fred

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Agent TypePersonActivities & OccupationsPolitical activistsTrade unionistsHistoryAfter serving in World War I, Fred Farrall worked as a coach-builder, joining the C.P.A. in 1930. Active on unemployment struggles, he became the N.S.W. Secretary of the Friends of the Soviet Union before moving to Melbourne where he was elected an official in the Federated Clerks' Union in the 1940s. Farrall remained the union organizer during the 1950s when it came to be controlled by the N.C.C./Industrial Groups and was also elected Mayor of Prahran. Fred Farrall died in 1991.

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Reedy River. 2BM

Reedy River

Tom Payne, Paul Robeson at Peace Rally

Peter Symon: 'Working Class Unity, The Broad Left Conference & a Socialist Australia'

Gwen Goedecke (19/12/85)

Tom Payne June 1985

An Evening with Tom Payne June 1985

Accession

[1987.0148] Papers of Fred Farrall

[1983.0113] Papers of Fred Farrall

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Farrall, Fred