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John Crozier Valentine (1881–1949)

Mr. John C. Valentine, one of the best-known industrialists in Queensland, died yesterday.

Mr. Valentine joined the railways as a cleaner, became a fireman in 1906, and a driver in 1911.

He became a member of the first union established in the Queensland railways—the Locomotive Enginemen, Firemen, and Cleaners' Association— and later became secretary of that union's Woolloongabba and Cairns branches. He became State secretary of the present union, the Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen, in 1921.

An A.L.P. man, he was, at one time, president of the Queensland Trades and Labour Council. Later he became secretary of the Combined Railway Unions organisation. In 1944 he took a position with the Rationing Commission. When that department was abolished he retired to private business at Caloundra.

When he retired as State secretary of his union, Mr. Valentine made no secret of his belief that communists were infiltrating Queensland unionism.

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'Valentine, John Crozier (1881–1949)', Obituaries Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/valentine-john-crozier-35051/text44195, accessed 29 May 2025.

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1 December, 1881
London, Middlesex, England

Death

23 August, 1949 (aged 67)
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Cause of Death

cancer (pancreatic)

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