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- 1942-1956 (Creation)
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1 box
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Biographical history
Theophilus (Theo) Kissick was a train driver and union official, who served as a councillor and later state president of the Queensland division of the Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen (AFULE). He put his name forward for selection as an ALP candidate for Queensland at the federal senate election in 1934 and when he failed to make the ticket he was expelled from the party on announcing his candidacy as an Independent Labor candidate. He failed to win a seat. He played an important role in the Brisbane railway strike of 1948.
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Collection previously titled as: Papers, 1942-1956
Collection alternatively titled as: Theo Kissick Collection.
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Scope and content
Correspondence, Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen (Qld.Div.) circulars, minutes of meetings, submissions and reports, Combined Federal Railway Unions (Qld. State Committee) minutes of meetings and newspaper clippings, etc.
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1-3. Correspondence outgoing, 1946-1953.
4-59. Correspondence incoming, 1945-1956.
60-94. Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen (Queensland division). Circulars to branches and councillors, 1943-1956.
95-111. Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen (Queensland Division). Minutes of bi-monthly meetings, 1952-1956.
112-122. Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen. [Submissions and reports of the Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen], 1951-1956.
123-145. Combined Federal Railway Unions (Queensland State Committee). Minutes of meetings, executive resolutions and duplicated correspondence, 1952-1956.
146-162. [Miscellaneous material relating to the Queensland Railways Department], 1950-1954.
163-198. [Miscellaneous notes and printed materials], 1951-1956.
- [Newspaper clippings], 1942-1954.
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Unrestricted access.
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- English
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Migrated
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Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.