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Name	George Warner Whitbread
Born	10 August, 1886 Wallaroo, South Australia, Australia
Died	7 October, 1958 (aged 72) East Perth, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Cause of Death	heart disease
Related Entries	[View as tree] Lake, James Arthur (colleague)
Occupation or Descriptor *	compositor (1900-1912) South Australia, Australia compositor (1912-1931) Western Australia, Australia trade union official (1920-1931) Western Australia, Australia
Key Organisations *	Printing Industry Employees' Union of Australia (WA) (member, 1912-1931) Printing Industry Employees' Union of Australia (WA) (president, 1920-1931) Western Australia National Football League (executive member, 1936-?)
Political Activism *	Communist Party (WA) (member, ?-1958)
Workplaces *	West Australian (newspaper) (compositor, ?-?)

* Dates are approximate

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