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Arthur 'Bluey' Howells (1907-1986) was born and raised in Sydney. He left school at 14 and worked in a rubber factory as a storeman when, under the influence of Sydney "Wobbly" Charlie Reeve, he joined the IWW and began his years of political activism. In 1930 he was living in Narrandera and was secretary of the local Lang Labor Party. After the fall of the Lang govern- ment and back in Sydney, he joined the anti-war movement and began writing stories and articles. He moved to Melbourne in 1933, wrote for 'Smith's Weekly' and 'Labor Call', and was elected to the executive of the Victorian Council Against War. Howells was an unaligned socialist who never joined the Communist Party. In 1936 he married Margaret Kemp and they travelled to Spain in the dying days of the civil war. During WW2 Howells served in the RAAF in Darwin. After the war, Howells ran a nursery garden from his property in Olinda, where he remained for the rest of his life. In 1983 he published his memoirs, 'Against the stream : the memories of a philosophical anarchist, 1927-1939'. |
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Political activists |
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