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Life Summary

Name	Pete Thomas
Alternative Names	Harvey Alfred Thomas
Born	16 June, 1914 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Died	11 August, 1988 (aged 74) Mount Victoria, New South Wales, Australia
Cause of Death	cancer (lung)
Related Entries	[View as tree] Robinson, Albert (colleague)
Education *	Perth Modern School (student, 1927-1930) University of Western Australia (student, 1931-1932)
Occupation or Descriptor *	journalist (1933-1946) Western Australia, Australia communist (1939-1946) Western Australia, Australia soldier (1942-1945) Federal, Australia communist (1946-1956) Queensland, Australia journalist (1946-1956) Queensland, Australia communist (1956-1960) New South Wales, Australia journalist (1956-1960) New South Wales, Australia communist (1960-1972) Queensland, Australia journalist (1960-1972) Queensland, Australia historian (general) (1970-1986) New South Wales, Australia labour historian (1970-1986) New South Wales, Australia communist (1972-1988) New South Wales, Australia newspaper editor (1973-1979) New South Wales, Australia
Key Events *	Queensland Railway Strike (1948) (participant)
Key Organisations *	Australian Journalists' Association (WA) (member, ?-1946) Australian Journalists' Association (Qld) (member, 1946-1956) Australian Journalists' Association (NSW) (member, 1956-1960) Australian Journalists' Association (Qld) (member, 1960-?) Australian Journalists' Association (NSW) (member, 1973-1988)
Political Activism *	ALP (WA) (member, ?-?) Communist Party (WA) (member, 1939-1946) Communist Party (Qld) (member, 1946-1956) Communist Party (NSW) (member, 1956-1960) Communist Party (Qld) (member, 1960-1972)
Workplaces *	Daily News (Perth) newspaper (journalist, ?-1946) West Australian (newspaper) (journalist, 1933-1946) Guardian (Qld) communist newspaper (journalist, 1946-1954) Tribune (Sydney) newspaper (journalist, 1956-1972) Common Cause (Sydney) newspaper (editor, 1973-1979)

* Dates are approximate