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Louis (Lou) Morgan (?–?)

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Louis (Lou) Morgan (?-?) moulder and trade union official

Birth: details unknown. Death: details unknown. 

  • Secretary of Moulders’ Union, Western Australia, and vice-president of Metropolitan Council of Australian Labor Party.
  • Forced to leave Perth in 1919, owing to victimisation following an arbitration case that he conducted for the union.
  • President of the Moulders’ Union of NSW in 1924 at least. Involved in preparing plaint on behalf of the Federal Council of Moulders Union, located in Melbourne, in 1924.
  • Federal Secretary of the Moulders Union from 1925 to 1929. Was a member of the executive in 1936.
  • Delegate of Moulders Union to annual conference of the Victorian branch of the ALP in Melbourne in January 1933. A delegate of the Moulders Union to the Trades and Labour Council Melbourne in 1937.
  • Described as “Moulders’ Federal Secretary and Arbitration Agent” in 1929, was reported to have “had a poetical turn of mind and occasionally contributed verses to the Labor Call”.

Sources
Westralian Worker (Perth), 8 February 1924 p 11.

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