1. Edward James "Jack" Holloway was an Australian politician who served in the House of Representatives from 1929 to 1951, representing the Labor Party.
19 Facts About Jack Holloway
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Jack Holloway served as a government minister under James Scullin, John Curtin, Frank Forde, and Ben Chifley.
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Jack Holloway had little formal education and was apprenticed at an early age as a bootmaker.
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Jack Holloway became an official of the Boot Trade Employees Association, and was active in the Australian Labor Party.
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Jack Holloway was secretary of the No Conscription Committee during World War I In 1916 he became secretary of the Melbourne Trades Hall Council, a position he held until 1929.
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Jack Holloway was a socialist and militant trade unionist, but opposed Communism and other revolutionary ideologies then current in the trade union movement.
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At the 1928 federal election, Jack Holloway stood as the Labor candidate against the Nationalist Prime Minister Stanley Bruce, in his seat of Flinders south of Melbourne.
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Jack Holloway was roundly defeated, but sought a rematch in 1929.
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Jack Holloway's candidacy was a protest against the Bruce government's plan to dismantle the arbitration system.
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On paper, Jack Holloway faced odds as daunting as he had faced in 1928.
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In Parliament, Jack Holloway soon found himself in opposition to the policies of the Scullin Labor government, a government unable to deal with the Great Depression which began soon after the 1929 elections.
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In opposition, Jack Holloway was determined that Labor would never again adopt what he saw as anti-working-class policies.
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When Scullin retired as Labor leader in 1935, Jack Holloway opposed Frank Forde's candidacy to succeed him on the grounds that Forde supported the Premiers' Plan five years earlier.
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Jack Holloway threw the support of left-wing members of caucus to John Curtin, who won the leadership ballot by just a single vote.
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In 1943, when Labor won large majorities in both houses of the Parliament, Jack Holloway became Minister for Labour and National Service.
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When Curtin died in 1945 Jack Holloway again opposed Forde's leadership bid, helping to ensure that Ben Chifley, like himself an ex-trade unionist, was elected leader.
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Jack Holloway retained his Labour portfolio under Chifley, and played a leading role in defeating the 1949 strike in the coal industry, which had been fomented by the Communist Party of Australia as a challenge to the Labor Party.
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Jack Holloway was made a Privy Councillor and retired from Parliament in 1951.
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Jack Holloway lived in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda until his death in 1967.