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- 1940-1963 (Creation)
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1 reel microfilm
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Name of creator
Biographical history
Alex Hepple, was the leader of the South African Labour Party from 1953-1958, and Member of Parliament. In 1962 he re-founded the Labour newspaper 'Forward', and published the paper until 1964.
He was also the founder and chairman of the Treason Trial Defence Fund from 1956-1961 and of the South African Defence and Aid Fund from 1960-1964. Together with his wife Josephine (Girlie) he established the International Defence and Aid Fund's (IDAF) Information Service in 1967 in London, after he had left South Africa in 1965 for the United Kingdom.
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Correspondence, reports and memoranda relating to the Garment Workers Union, the South African Trades and Labour Council and the South African Defence and Aid Fund.
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Existence and location of copies
The negatives of the microfilm are held in the Center for Research Libraries (CAMP), Chicago, U.S.A.