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Chapters: James Scullin, Geoffrey Street, Allan Mcdonald, Chester Manifold, Tony Street, Richard Crouch, Daniel Mackinnon, Darren Cheeseman, Gratton Wilson, Stewart Mcarthur. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: James Henry Scullin (18 September 1876 28 January 1953), Australian Labor politician and the ninth Prime Minister of Australia. Two days after he was sworn in as Prime Minister, the Wall Street Crash of 1929 occurred, marking the beginning of the Great Depression and subsequent Great Depression in Australia. Scullin in the 1900sScullin was born in the small town of Trawalla in western Victoria, the son of John Scullin, a railway worker, and Ann (nee Logan), both of Irish Catholic descent from Derry. He was educated at state primary schools and then worked as a grocer in Ballarat while studying at night school and privately in public libraries and honing his public speaking skills in local debating clubs. He joined the Labor Party in 1903 and became an organiser for the Australian Workers' Union, then editor of a Labor newspaper in Ballarat, the Evening Echo. He was a devout Roman Catholic, a non-drinker and a non-smoker all his life. Scullin stood for the House of Representatives seat of Ballaarat in 1906 against Alfred Deakin, but lost. In 1910 he was elected to the House for the country seat of Corangamite, but he was defeated in 1913 and went back to editing the Evening Echo. He established a reputation as one of Labor's leading public speakers and experts on finance, and was a strong opponent of conscription. After World War I he came close to outright pacifism. In 1922 he won a by-election for the safe Labor seat of Yarra in inner Melbourne, and in 1928 he was elected Labor leader following the resignation of Matthew Charlton. In 1929 t...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=17201