'Rats','scabs','soolers' and'Sinn Feiners': a reassessment of the role of the labour movement in the conscription crisis in Western Australia, 1916/17

Bobbie Oliver

'Rats','scabs','soolers' and'Sinn Feiners': a reassessment of the role of the labour movement in the conscription crisis in Western Australia, 1916/17

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Discusses divisions in the Australian Labor Party (WA Branch) and WA trade unions during the conscription campaigns of 1916 and 1917. It re-assesses the agument that the labour movement was unified on the issue of conscription and demonstrates that it was deeply divided.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	48-64
Number of pages	17
Journal	Labour History
Issue number	58
Publication status	Published - 1990

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'Rats','scabs','soolers' and'Sinn Feiners': a reassessment of the role of the labour movement in the conscription crisis in Western Australia, 1916/17

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