- Born
- 1887
- Died
- 1970
- Occupation
- Activist, Editor and Syndicalist
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Barker had worked as a farm labourer and tram conductor before becoming a leader in the International Workers of the World. He was the editor of the IWW's weekly newspaper Direct Action.
See Eric Fry, 'Barker, Tom (1887 - 1970)', Australian Dictionary of Biography Online.
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- Milner, Andrew, 'Radical Intellectuals: an unacknowledged legislature?', in Verity Bergman and Jenny Lee (eds), Constructing a culture: a people's history of Australia since 1788, McPhee Gribble/ Penguin Books, Melbourne, 1988, pp. 259-84. [
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- Fry, E. C. (ed.), Tom Barker and the I.W.W., Industrial Workers of the World, Brisbane, 1999. [
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