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Name	Douglas Charles Olive
Born	16 February, 1905 Pymble, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died	2 January, 1985 (aged 79) Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Cause of Death	cancer (leukemia)
Related Entries	[View as tree] Olive, Kathleen Mary (wife) Olive, Arthur Horace (brother) Olive, John Joseph (brother)
Occupation or Descriptor *	railways employee (1923-1931) New South Wales, Australia communist (1931-1943) Queensland, Australia sugar cane cutter (1931-1943) Queensland, Australia communist (1943-1985) New South Wales, Australia communist party organiser (1943-1962) New South Wales, Australia
Key Events *	coal strike (1949) (participant) Queensland Meat Strike (1946) (participant) Queensland Railway Strike (1948) (participant) Sugar Strike (Qld, 1935) (union leader)
Key Organisations *	Industrial Workers of the World (NSW) (member, ?-?) Militant Minority Movement (Qld) (member) Australian Workers' Union (Qld) (member, 1931-1938)
Political Activism *	Communist Party (Qld) (member, 1931-1985)
Workplaces *	Dept of Railways (NSW) (employee, 1923-1931)

* Dates are approximate

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