Obituaries Australia

With the deepest regret, Tribune reports the passing last week of Mr. Jack [John Joseph] Olive of Pymble, Sydney, veteran communist, lifelong labor movement supporter and one of the most consistent and successful sellers of Tribune.

He was 69.

Tribune extends deep sympathy to his wife May, to his daughters and sons Joan, Betty, Ruth, Ann, John and Noel; to his sisters Flo, Ethel and Elsie and his brothers Fred, Doug and Harold.

At his funeral Mr. W. J. Brown, on behalf of the CPA National Committee, paid tribute to Jack Olive as a man of deeply-held faith who sought and worked for the salvation of man "here on earth."

Mr. Olive enlisted at 16 for service in the first world war and returned with an injury that stayed with him for the rest of his life.

Socialist views arising from his war experiences were strengthened during his years as a cane-cutter in Queensland in association with his elder brother Arthur.

In 1937 both joined the Communist Party.

During the war Mr. Olive worked on important Commonwealth construction projects. Afterwards he took a position at the Newsletter printery which at that time published Tribune.

For almost a quarter of a century Mr. Olive was an identity at Pymble, regularly selling Tribune in all weathers through all the times of political stresses marking this period. His campaigns as a Popular Seller candidate raised hundreds of pounds for the paper.