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Don Scott, n.d.

Donald Edgerton (Don) Scott (1915-1979) painter, trade union official and Communist 

Birth: 1915 at Melbourne, Victoria, son of James Brough Scott (1886-1979), a painter and decorator, born at Perth, Scotland, and Bertha Mary, née Tall (1890-1969). Marriage: 11 October 1940 at the office of the Government Statist, Melbourne, to Doris (Dorothy) Gordon (1916-?), photographer, born at Newcastle on Tyne, Northumberland, England. They had one daughter. Death: 8 November 1979 in his home at Kerr Street, Blackburn, Victoria. 

• His father was an official of the Operative Painters and Decorators Union of Australia
• Don was a member the federal council of the OPDUA, being a representative from Victoria.
• He was president of the Victorian Branch of the OPDUA from 1948.
• Member of the Communist Party of Australia. During the Communist Party split in 1962-1964 he was the publisher of the Marxist-Leninist press.
• Cause of death: cor pulmonale (2-3 years) and emphysema (10-15 years).

Sources
John Spierings, A brush with history: history of the Operative Painters' and Decorators' Union (Melbourne, 1993), pp 37, 113, 145 & 158.