Australian Protective League

Component identifier:

Series 17

Content Summary:

This is a small series containing the letter from the Prime Minister's Department dated 1918, inviting Brookes to join the Australian Protective League, a voluntary league of citizens set up to serve the Government as an auxiliary to the Bureau of Investigation; his notes of meetings between Sir George Pearce, E.L. Piesse, F.C. Urquart and Sir George Steward, a report in 1915 by Urquart on "disloyal" organizations and their personnel, a report by Piesse to Pearce containing a plan for a Federal Investigation Department and notes on the Industrial Workers of the World and the One Big Union.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers of Herbert Brookes were presented to the National Library in April 1967 by his widow Ivy Deakin Brookes. In October 1967 she deposited her own extensive collection, and together they form the Brookes Papers.

Names:

Brookes, Ivy

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