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Alec E. Anderson (?–?)

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Alec E. Anderson (?-?) lithographer and trade union official

Birth: ? Marriage: ? Death: ?

  • Entered printing trades, 1905 as lithography apprentice with Melbourne firm P. C. Grosser;
  • 1912, joined Victorian Lithographic Printers Union (later APTEUA).
  • Rejected for military service in World War I due to diminutive stature.
  • Highly experienced with a range of printing equipment, using perhaps the first Mann offset machine in Melbourne.
  • 1950, employed by Argus when world’s first multi-coloured daily newspaper was printed by rotary lithographic process.
  • 8 August 1950, became full-time Secretary of the Victorian Branch, APTEUA. 
  • Worked without secretarial assistance and conducted union meetings at his home until union purchased premises in Drummond Street, Carlton.
  • Member, Printing Trades Committee of Victorian Apprenticeship Commission for 17 years and Graphic Arts Board of Reference for a similar period. As Federal Vice-President, APTEUA, sought amalgamation with other printing union, PIEUA, which brought Printing and Kindred Trades Union (PKIU) into being, 1966.
  • Worked as assistant to Secretary, Victorian Branch, PKIU and retired in 1968.

Sources
Printing Trades Journal, Feb 1968.

Citation details

'Anderson, Alec E. (?–?)', People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/anderson-alec-e-25500/text33843, accessed 1 September 2024.

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