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LIST OF CHIEF ABBREVIATIONS USED
| A.M.A. | Amalgamated Miners' Assoc. (metalliferous) |
| A.M.I.E.U. | Amalgamated Meat Industry Employees' Union. |
| A.R.T.S.A. | Amalgamated Railway and Tramway Service Assoc. (N.S.W.) |
| A.S.C.&J. | Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners. |
| A.W.A. | Amalgamated Workers' Assoc. |
| A.L.F. | Australian Labour Federation. |
| A.L.P. | Australian Labour Party. |
| A.R.U. | Australian Railway Union (formed 1921). |
| A.S.L. | Australian Socialist League (1887). |
| A.S.P. | Australian Socialist Party. |
| A.S.U. | Australian Shearers' Union (later A.W.U.). |
| A.S.W.U. | Australian Sugar Workers' Union. |
| A.U.F. | Australian Union Federation (1915). |
| A.W.U. | Australian Workers' Union. |
| B.H.P. | Broken Hill Proprietary Co. |
| C.&S.E.F. | Coal and Shale Employees' Fed. (coal miners). |
| C.P.E. | Central Political Executive (i.e., the Labour Party Executive of Queensland). |
| C.S.R. | Colonial Sugar Refining Co. |
| F.M.E.A. | Federated Mining Employees' Assoc. (metalliferous miners). |
| F.E.D.F.A. | Federated Engine-Drivers' and Firemen's Assoc. |
| I.W.W. | Industrial Workers of the World. |
| M.L.A. | Member of the Legislative Assembly (i.e., of the Lower House of a State Parliament). |
| M.L.C. | Member of the Legislative Council (i.e., of the Upper House of a State Parliament). |
| M.H.R. | Member of the House of Representatives -- the Lower Chamber of the Federal Parliament. |
| O.B.U. | One Big Union. |
| P.L.L. | Political Labour League (local branch of the Labour Party and the extra-parliamentary organisation of the Party in N.S.W. |
| P.L.C. | Political Labour Council (the Executive of the Labour Party in Victoria). |
| P.L.P. | Parliamentary Labour Party (i.e., the Labour Members of Parliament). |
| Q.R.U. | Queensland Railway Union. |
| Q.S.U. | Queensland Shearers' Union. |
| R.W.U. | Rural Workers Union (harvesters, etc.). |
| R.W.&G.L.U. | Railway Workers' and General Labourers' Union. |
| R.S.S.I.L.A. | Returned Soldiers' and Sailors' Imperial League of Australia. |
| S.D.L. | Social Democratic League (Socialist). |
| S.L.P. | Socialist Labour Party. |
| T.U.C. | Trade Union Congress. |
| U.L.U. | United Labourers' Union. |
| V.R.U. | Victorian Railway Union. |
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| V.S.P. | Victorian Socialist Party. |
| W.I.U.of A. | Workers' Industrial Union of Australia. |
| W.P.O. | Workers' Political Organisation (local branch of the Labour Party of Queensland). |
| W.P.A. | War Precautions Act (Australian counterpart of D.O.R.A.). |
| W.W.F. | Waterside Workers' Federation (wharf labourers and coal lumpers). |
SPECIAL NOTE.
| Premier | means | First Minister of a State. |
| Prime Minister | means | First Minister of the Commonwealth. |
| Worker | means | Australian Worker, published in Sydney. |
| Q.Worker | means | Queensland Worker, published in Brisbane. |
| J. | means | The Hon. Mr. Justice. |
| N.Q. | means | North Queensland. |
| A.A. | means | Australia's Awakening, by W.G.Spence. Worker Press, Sydney. |
Broken Hill and Barrier are interchangeable, the former being a hill and town on the Barrier range.