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Name	Bernard Smith
Born	1902 Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Died	4 August, 1967 (aged ~ 65) North Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Cause of Death	motor vehicle accident
Cultural Heritage	English Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.
Related Entries	[View as tree] Walsh, Thomas (colleague) Johnson, Jacob (colleague) Elliott, Eliot Valens (colleague)
Occupation or Descriptor *	communist (1920-1967) New South Wales, Australia merchant sailor (1920-1940) New South Wales, Australia trade union official (1941-1967) New South Wales, Australia
Clubs *	North Sydney Leagues Club (member, ?-1967)
Key Events *	coal strike (1949) (supporter) Petrov Affair, 1954 (trade union leader) Seamen's Strike (1935-36) (participant) steel strike (NSW, 1945) (supporter)
Key Organisations *	Seamen's Union of Australia (NSW) (member, 1922-1967) Seamen's Union of Australia (federal) (organiser, 1941-1967) Seamen's Union of Australia (NSW) (organiser, 1941-1967)
Political Activism *	Communist Party (NSW) (member) Vietnam war opponent

* Dates are approximate

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