Westralian Worker

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The Westralian Worker was a newspaper established in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia in 1900, it closed in 1951 in Perth, Western Australia.

It was established as the Official organ of the Western Australian Labor Party - with the subtitle of "A journal devoted to the interest of trade unionism, co-operation and labour in politics".[1]

In April 1912 it was moved to Perth and was published by the Westralian Worker Printing and Publishing Company. The company also published union books and pamphlets as well as the Westralian Worker.[2]

Printers mark found on rear of railway union booklet circa 1935

The newspaper attempted to balance views between conscriptionists and anti-conscriptionists in World War I, but eventually became a mouthpiece for the anti-conscriptionists.[3]

Notable editors

Publishing details

  • Vol. 1, no. 1 (Sept. 7, 1900)-no. 2219 (Friday, June 22, 1951)
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Notes

  1. ↑ Australian Labor Party. Western Australian Branch (1885), Records of the Australian Labor Party WA Branch, retrieved 12 March 2013  for an example of the Newspaper archives and the ALP
  2. ↑ Westralian Worker (1920), [Collection of miscellaneous political and trade union pamphlets printed by the Westralian Worker press c.1920-1950], Westralian Worker, retrieved 18 March 2013 
  3. ↑ Corr, Robert; Notre Dame University (2003), Sitting on the rail : the Westralian worker in wartime, retrieved 12 March 2013 
  4. ↑ http://john.curtin.edu.au/journalist/workere.html
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