Alfred Blackwell

Alfred Joseph Blackwell (9 April 1876 – 16 October 1955) was an Australian politician who represented the South Australian House of Assembly multi-member seat of West Torrens from 1918 to 1938 for the Labor Party, excluding the 1931–34 Labor split, when he sat with the splinter Parliamentary Labor Party.

He became the assistant secretary and organiser of the state branch of the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union in 1910, and its state general secretary in 1916.

[2][3][4] He later served as state president of the Australian Railways Union for over a decade until 1931.

[1] He suffered a family tragedy in 1928 when two of his children were killed when their cart was hit by a train.

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