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Life Summary

Name	William Morrow
Born	22 October, 1888 Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
Died	12 July, 1980 (aged 91) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Cultural Heritage	English Irish Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.
Related Entries	[View as tree] Campbell, Alexander William (colleague)
Occupation *	railways employee (1898-1921) Queensland, Australia trade union official (1915-1925) Queensland, Australia anti-conscriptionist (1916-1917) Queensland, Australia local government councillor (1932-1935) Queensland, Australia industrial arbitration advocate (1936-1946) Tasmania, Australia trade union official (1936-1946) Tasmania, Australia labour politician (1946-1953) Federal, Australia Member of Upper House (1946-1953) Federal, Australia pacifist (1950-1980) Tasmania, Australia
Awards	Joliot-Curie Medal of Peace (World Peace Council) (recipient, 1959) Lenin Peace Prize (recipient, 1961)
Key Events *	coal strike (1949) (politician) Petrov Affair, 1954 (witness)
Key Organisations *	Australia-China Society (NSW) (member) Australian Peace Council (member) Australian Railways Union (federal) (senior vice-president) Launceston Trades Hall Council (Tas) (president) Amalgamated Workers Association (Qld) (member, 1911-1913) Australian Workers' Union (Qld) (member, 1913-1915) Queensland Railway Union (member, 1915-1921) Queensland Railway Union (organiser, 1915-1921) Australian Railways Union (Qld) (organiser, 1921-1925) Australian Railways Union (Tas) (secretary, 1936-1946) Australia-China Society (Qld) (president, 1977)
Political Activism *	ALP (Qld) (member, 1908-1925) anti-conscriptionist (trade union official, 1916-1917) ALP (Tas) (member, 1936-1938) ALP (Tas) (member, 1942-1953) ALP (federal) (politician, 1946-1953)
Workplaces *	Dept of Railways (Qld) (employee, 1898-1921) Mt Isa Council (Qld) (councillor, 1932-1935) Parliament of Australia (Senate - member, 1946-1953)

* Dates are approximate