Vic Slater during the Youth Campaign against Conscription, Brisbane, Australia

Garner, Grahame (1966). Vic Slater during the Youth Campaign against Conscription, Brisbane, Australia. Garner, Grahame.

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Creator Garner, Grahame
Title Vic Slater during the Youth Campaign against Conscription, Brisbane, Australia
Publisher Garner, Grahame
Publication date 1966-03-24
Contributor Garner, Grahame
Type photograph
Format image/tif
Source Fryer Research Mss F3400, Fryer Library, The University of Queensland
Language eng
Rights For all enquiries about this work, please contact the Fryer Library, The University of Queensland
Subject 430101 History - Australian
Abstract/Summary Vic Slater and police during the Youth Campaign against Conscription, Brisbane, Australia in 1965. Victor Charles Slater (now retired) was born in Queensland in March 1944 the only child of Jim and Joyce Slater, card carrying members of the Communist Party of Australia. Vic's mother, Joyce, joined up in Great Britain. Vic too joined the party in 1962 after a stint as president of the Eureka Youth League. He stayed with the more broad left CPA when it split from the hardline Stalinists after the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Vic joined the Waterside Workers' Federation before his 21st birthday in January 1965, one of 300 casual workers recruited to the Port of Brisbane that year. On the wharves he soon earned the nickname 'the Professor' arriving on the job each day bespectacled and carrying a briefcase heavy with reading matter on world politics and economics - a walking encyclopaedia of information. [information kindly provided by Peter Gray]
Keyword Draft - Australia
Political activists
Police
Slater, Vic
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