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and worked in carriage and coach building. On 16 June 1904, he married Helen Watson, with whom he was to have two daughters. He was a leader in the local labour movement, organising a protest for the Eight Hours movement, and helping to establish the
Victoria District General Workers' Union and also
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when he was young, and he was educated there before being apprenticed as a railway coach builder in 1884. Influenced by his father who was a prominent member of the
Operative Stonemasons' Society in Sydney, Dooley joined the Sydney Coachbuilders' Society at the conclusion of his apprenticeship in
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Australia into recession. Dooley obtained work as a prospector, miner, farm hand, shearer and carpenter in outback areas of Australia and in New Zealand before
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Railways Department. In 1898, he became a foundation member of the state branch of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Employees, and took a leading role in obtaining official recognition for the body. Among his achievements were having a Railways
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Department regulation overturned which forbade political or municipal activity by employees, negotiating a complete classification for all waged staff in the railways. He also helped to negotiate an increase from 7
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in 1910, following a decision by that body to let municipal work by contract, and he served two terms as a councillor thereafter. He enjoyed the support of the
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Socialist League. He married Annie Creo Stanley, who later became a trade union leader, on 29 March 1888 in
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elections. The situation caused some embarrassment for the
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377:"A Rumpus in the Railways",
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459:1913 deaths
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424:Member for
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57:4 July 1867
448:Categories
430:1911–1913
337:0730738140
305:References
299:West Perth
196:moving to
186:compositor
174:Paddington
108:Profession
80:West Perth
426:Geraldton
355:(1985) .
262:John Drew
218:Geraldton
148:Biography
144:in 1891.
134:Geraldton
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318:(2001).
222:Mid West
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154:West Ham
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246:Liberal
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