Henry Ernest Boote
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Henry Ernest Boote was a prolific and influential Australian editor, journalist, propagandist, poet, and fiction writer. He was an ardent trade unionist and socialist whose writings supported and soug
Photographic portrait of Henry Boote (about 1920).
Cartoon regarding the departure in 1911 of Henry E. Boote, the editor of Brisbane's The Worker newspaper.
Portrait of Henry Boote (1915).
Henry Boote and Mary Ellen Lloyd at their dining-room table.
Sydney Twelve
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The Sydney Twelve or I.W.W. Twelve were members of the Industrial Workers of the World, arrested in September 1916 in Sydney, Australia, and initially charged with treason-felony. They were John Hamil
Henry Ernest Boote
…tried before a jury at the Central Criminal Court in Darlinghurst by the Supreme Court judge Justice Robert Pring. The twelve men became known as the 'Sydney Twelve' or 'IWW Twelve'. On 1 December the jury returned verdicts of guilty to each of the accused men on some or all of the conspiracy charges. The following…
The Sydney Twelve.
The banner of Direct Action newspaper, 30 September 1916, with the added text "Editor Gaoled Business as Usual".
John Benjamin King (prisoner 15318).
Charles Reeve (prisoner 15391).