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Woocoo Historical Society

  • AU NLA 35617605
  • Corporate body

Aims are the preservation of Woocoo Shire local history, items and objects.

Workers Against Uranium Mining

  • Corporate body

Workers Against Uranium Mining (1978?-197? ).
Objectives - To build the anti-uranium campaign on the job and to strengthen trade union opposition to the nuclear industry.
Note: W.A.U.M. was associated with the International Socialists.

Workers' Control Movement

  • Corporate body

Workers' Control Movement (1973-1974).
Objectives - To create a mass movement for workers' control of industry.
Publicists - Alice Hughes, Hugh Hamilton, Wally Stubbings.
Note: The movement organised a Brisbane Regional Worker's Control Conference (17-18th November, 1973). It was part of a national movement which organised conferences at Newcastle and Armidale.

Workers' Education Dramatic Society

  • Corporate body
  • 1930-1941

The Workers' Education Dramatic Society existed in Brisbane from 1930 to 1941, its beginnings in 1929 when a course in dramatic art was introduced to the Workers' Education Association of Queensland. It produced social and political dramas and pursued an educational role, promoting drama with an emphasis on peace and women's rights. . It made serious efforts to encourage Australian playwrights. Regarded by the Queensland government as promoting a dangerous and minority view, led to the demise of the Society in 1941.

Results 1911 to 1920 of 1952