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McKinlay, Brian, ed.: Australian Labor History in Documents

Brian McKinlay, ed.

Australian Labor History in Documents: Volume 1 The Trade Union Movement; Volume 2 The Labor Party; Volume 3 The Radical Left, Collins Dove, Melbourne, 1990; first published Drummond 1979

Includes a poem from The Australian Worker, 12 October 1916, in the midst of the conscription battle, accompanied by an illustration of a mother voting at the referendum. ‘They gave me the ballot paper/The grim death warrant of doom/And I smugly sentenced the man to death/In that dreadful little room.’ (Vol. 2, p. 57)