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In February 1910, he took a role of a paid organizer at the Amalgamated Society of Railway Employees, and became its general secretary in July. An advocate of stronger industrial unions, he founded the Victorian Railways Union one year later and headed it as its secretary general. In this position,
109:. John Curtin was said to have been particularly affected by Hyett's death, his wife recounting that he "paced the verandah" of their home all night long, "repeating in disbelief, 'Frank Hyett is dead.' " 113: 428: 94:, Hyett was a strong opponent to conscription, and from 1916 to 1918, the Victorian Railways Union's paper was one of the more visible platforms used by the anti-conscription movement. 423: 60:
in 1902, joining the Australian Social Democratic Party, and becoming its Secretary in 1905. Among the formative friendships he built at that time, the future
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he was instrumental in the creation of a single unified union for all Australian Railways; his efforts eventually led to the foundation of the
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on 1 March 1883. At the age of 13, he left school and began working at a grocery store, where he eventually became a clerk.
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were the most prominent. In 1906, he followed Mann after the latter founded the
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Friendship is a Sheltering Tree: John Curtin's Letters, 1907 to 1945
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Black, David William; Curtin, John; Moore, Bryce (2001).
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A History of the Victorian Socialist Party, 1906-1932
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Index


Australian
first-class cricketer
Ballarat
pneumonia
socialism
Prime Minister
John Curtin
Frank Anstey
Tom Mann
Victorian Socialist Party
Australian Railways Union
first World War
pneumonia
Spanish flu
Box Hill Cemetery
Ethel Margaret Gunn
List of Victoria first-class cricketers
La Trobe University
La Trobe University
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Melbourne University Press
"Hyett, Francis William"
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Melbourne University Press
"John Curtin"
"Pars about people"
The Australian Worker
"Death of Frank Hyett"
The Labor News

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