Harry Gould (editor)

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Llewellyn Harry Gould (died 1974), generally known as Harry Gould, was a prominent Australian communist, best known as editor of the Tribune, the official organ of the Communist Party of Australia (CPA).

History[]

Gould, who may have been of Jewish descent,[1] was educated at Dublin University.[2]

He joined the Communist Party in 1934. By 1937 he was in Sydney working as a Workers' Educational Association (WEA) lecturer.

Gould was editor of the and its successor Tribune.

In July 1941 Gould was jailed for 40 days on the basis of WEA material found on a table at the Bondi School of Arts.[3]

He was appointed manager of which acknowledged its communist affiliation in 1942, when it became a partial replacement for the (banned) Tribune.

In preparation for the CPA being declared illegal, he bought[when?] a printing press, which was brought into operation as Tribune's press in 1942.

He was jailed for three months for membership of the CPA,[2] and despite increasing disillusionment with the party in Moscow, retained his membership to the end. He began writing a book about his disappointment, but was killed in a car accident before it was completed.[2]

Publications[]

  • Gould, Llewellyn Harry; William A. Wood (1942). How Russia smashed its fifth column. Sydney: Current Book Distributors..
  • A Marxist Glossary (various editions, 1943–1967)
  • The Sharkey Writings (c. 1974)
  • Art, Science & Communism (1946)

Family[]

Gould married Diana Maud Reeve in Sydney in 1937. She was a prominent communist, and a regular speaker at "Speakers' corner" in Sydney's Domain.[4] She remained a member and regular contributor until at least 1990.[5] The Tribune ceased publication on 3 April 1991.[6]

References[]

  1. ^ "Advertising". The Hebrew Standard of Australasia. Vol. 53, no. 49. New South Wales, Australia. 10 June 1948. p. 5. Retrieved 9 October 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ a b c "About the Author". Australian Communist Party. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
  3. ^ "Voluble Anti-Fascist". . No. 2688. New South Wales, Australia. 13 July 1941. p. 30. Retrieved 9 October 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ ""Boys—There is only one Party"". Tribune. No. 42. New South Wales, Australia. 2 February 1940. p. 3. Retrieved 9 October 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ "Press Fund". Tribune. No. 2625. New South Wales, Australia. 3 October 1990. p. 9. Retrieved 9 October 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ^ "Looking backwards, looking forwards – what's left?". Tribune. No. 2645. New South Wales, Australia. 3 April 1991. p. 6. Retrieved 10 October 2020 – via National Library of Australia.

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