It was closely aligned with the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and the One Big Union (OBE) movement.
[2] The party subsequently announced that George Burns and William McCristal would nominate for the seats of Illawarra and Cook in the 1919 Australian federal election.
[8] Michael Considine, Labor member for Barrier in the federal House of Representatives from 1917, joined in 1920 after his expulsion from the ALP, and unsuccessfully contested the seat of Darling for the Industrial Labor Party in 1922.
Donald Grant, one of 12 Australian IWW members gaoled in 1916, contested the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Sturt at the 1922 state election but received only 7.88% of the primary vote.
[10] Other members of the party who later became prominent in the ALP were Jock Garden and Jack Baddeley.