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Name	John James Williams
Born	1881 Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Died	14 September, 1959 (aged ~ 78) Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Cause of Death	cancer (liver)
Related Entries	[View as tree] Williams, Jack (son) Ross, Edgar Argent (colleague)
Occupation or Descriptor *	goldminer (1900-1914) New South Wales, Australia opal miner (1900-1914) New South Wales, Australia coalminer (1914-1945) New South Wales, Australia anti-conscriptionist (1916-1917) New South Wales, Australia communist (1925-1959) New South Wales, Australia pacifist (1930-1940) New South Wales, Australia
Key Organisations *	Australasian Coal & Shale Employees Federation (NSW) (member, ?-?) Australian Workers' Union (NSW) (member, ?-?) Industrial Workers of the World (NSW) (member, ?-?) Unemployed Workers' Movement (Newcastle, NSW) (member)
Political Activism *	Communist Party (NSW) (member, ?-1959) anti-conscriptionist (1916-1917)

* Dates are approximate

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