Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { <http://wikidata.dbpedia.org/resource/Q4717409> ?p ?o }
Showing triples 1 to 70 of
70
with 100 triples per page.
- Q4717409 description "Australian trade unionist and communist".
- Q4717409 description "Australian trade unionist and communist".
- Q4717409 subject Q6135626.
- Q4717409 subject Q6615329.
- Q4717409 subject Q7115172.
- Q4717409 subject Q7797723.
- Q4717409 abstract "Alexander "Alex" Macdonald (21 May 1910 – 18 August 1969) was an Australian ironworker, trade unionist and communist.Macdonald was born at Greenock in Renfrewshire, Scotland, to sawmill foreman Alexander Macdonald and Sybil, née Smith. Young Alex attended Homescroft School, but left at 13 to work in a shipyard. His father had remarried in 1920 following his mother's death in 1916, but the children did not get along well with their stepmother, and Alex and his sister Anna emigrated to Australia in 1925 (there was a delay of almost six weeks in Cape Town following a worldwide seamen's strike).Macdonald, who had come to Australia as part of the "Dreadnought" scheme, trained at Scheyville for three months before working in the mid-west of New South Wales. He intended to return to Scotland via Western Australia, but reports from his father of high unemployment prompted him to remain. He travelled to Queensland in June 1932 at the height of the Great Depression and took on seasonal work, becoming involved in the unemployed workers movement. He eventually relocated to Brisbane.Macdonald joined the Communist Party of Australia around 1933 and was elected to the state committee in 1936, becoming Brisbane branch secretary in 1937. He stood for both state and federal office several times without success. On 11 August 1939 he married Molly Cassandra Neild, a nurse, at Brisbane. Macdonald worked as an ironworker at the Evans Deakin shipyard and was elected full-time secretary of the Queensland branch of the Federated Ironworkers Association of Australia (FIA) in 1943. He was also on the interstate executive of the Australian Council of Trade Unions from 1949 to 1969, and was a supporter of Bob Hawke.Macdonald was defeated for the secretaryship of the FIA in 1951 but became secretary of the Queensland Trades and Labor Council (TLC) in 1952. A strong negotiator, Macdonald played a significant role in the Queensland meat strike of 1946, the shearers' stirke of 1956 and the Mount Isa conflict of 1964–65. He worked to admit university students to the Trades Hall and in 1968 represented the forty TLC-affiliated unions before the State Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. He died of myocardial infarction at Princess Alexandra Hospital in South Brisbane in 1969, and was cremated. His funeral was attended by thousands of mourners.".
- Q4717409 birthDate "1910-05-21".
- Q4717409 birthName "Alexander Macdonald".
- Q4717409 birthPlace Q211091.
- Q4717409 birthPlace Q217831.
- Q4717409 birthPlace Q22.
- Q4717409 birthYear "1910".
- Q4717409 deathCause Q12152.
- Q4717409 deathDate "1969-08-18".
- Q4717409 deathPlace Q1049706.
- Q4717409 deathPlace Q7244522.
- Q4717409 deathYear "1969".
- Q4717409 party Q1120586.
- Q4717409 wikiPageWikiLink Q1049706.
- Q4717409 wikiPageWikiLink Q1120586.
- Q4717409 wikiPageWikiLink Q12152.
- Q4717409 wikiPageWikiLink Q176015.
- Q4717409 wikiPageWikiLink Q1930380.
- Q4717409 wikiPageWikiLink Q211091.
- Q4717409 wikiPageWikiLink Q217831.
- Q4717409 wikiPageWikiLink Q22.
- Q4717409 wikiPageWikiLink Q269372.
- Q4717409 wikiPageWikiLink Q3206.
- Q4717409 wikiPageWikiLink Q34932.
- Q4717409 wikiPageWikiLink Q36074.
- Q4717409 wikiPageWikiLink Q5440685.
- Q4717409 wikiPageWikiLink Q5465.
- Q4717409 wikiPageWikiLink Q6135626.
- Q4717409 wikiPageWikiLink Q6615329.
- Q4717409 wikiPageWikiLink Q7115172.
- Q4717409 wikiPageWikiLink Q7244522.
- Q4717409 wikiPageWikiLink Q7431234.
- Q4717409 wikiPageWikiLink Q7797723.
- Q4717409 wikiPageWikiLink Q8698.
- Q4717409 birthDate "1910-05-21".
- Q4717409 birthName "Alexander Macdonald".
- Q4717409 birthPlace "Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland".
- Q4717409 dateOfBirth "1910-05-21".
- Q4717409 dateOfDeath "1969-08-18".
- Q4717409 deathCause Q12152.
- Q4717409 deathDate "1969-08-18".
- Q4717409 deathPlace "Princess Alexandra Hospital, South Brisbane, Australia".
- Q4717409 name "Alex Macdonald".
- Q4717409 name "Macdonald, Alex".
- Q4717409 occupation "Ironworker, trade unionist".
- Q4717409 party Q1120586.
- Q4717409 placeOfBirth "Greenock in Renfrewshire, Scotland".
- Q4717409 placeOfDeath "Princess Alexandra Hospital, South Brisbane, Australia".
- Q4717409 shortDescription "Australian trade unionist and communist".
- Q4717409 type Person.
- Q4717409 type Agent.
- Q4717409 type Person.
- Q4717409 type Agent.
- Q4717409 type NaturalPerson.
- Q4717409 type Thing.
- Q4717409 type Q215627.
- Q4717409 type Q5.
- Q4717409 type Person.
- Q4717409 comment "Alexander "Alex" Macdonald (21 May 1910 – 18 August 1969) was an Australian ironworker, trade unionist and communist.Macdonald was born at Greenock in Renfrewshire, Scotland, to sawmill foreman Alexander Macdonald and Sybil, née Smith. Young Alex attended Homescroft School, but left at 13 to work in a shipyard.".
- Q4717409 label "Alex Macdonald (trade unionist)".
- Q4717409 givenName "Alex".
- Q4717409 name "Alex Macdonald".
- Q4717409 name "Macdonald, Alex".
- Q4717409 surname "Macdonald".