P3-P4 - Interview with Fred Farrall (born 1897), Melbourne, 1 June 1984

Component identifier:

File P3-P4

Content Summary:

Fred Farrall was born in Cobram on the Murray River. In 1904 his father secured land in a ballot and moved to the Riverina about fifty miles west of Wagga Wagga. He describes his life growing up on this farm; his interactions with the Industrial Workers of the World, especially his cousin Roly Farrell's involvement in distributing the fake £5 notes printed by some IWW members late in 1916 and his subsequent imprisonment. He describes his membership years in the Communist Party of Australia in the inter-war and early post-war period, in the breakaway Moscow-line Socialist Party of Australia after 1970, and his period as Mayor of Prahran in inner Melbourne.

2 x 90 min. cassettes, c. 180 minutes.

Subjects:

Politics and government
Academic
History

Names:

Burgmann, Verity, FASS, Adjunct Professor of Politics

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