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Type of entity
Corporate body
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Young Christian Workers
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Description area
Dates of existence
History
Young Christian Workers (1920-). The YCW was formed in Brussels in the 1920s by a priest Joseph Cardyn. It came to Australia in the 1940s.
Objectives: To work for a more just, more peaceful world It was concerned with the free development of man, especially of young workers, through striving to overcome economic oppression, racial discrimination and legal injustice.