• Entry type: Organisation
  • Entry ID: AWE0227

Eureka Youth League

(From 1941 – )
  • Occupation Social action organisation

Summary

The Eureka Youth League was formed in 1941 with the aim of supporting the war effort while protecting the rights and conditions of women, youth and juveniles in industry.

By October 1942 the State Council of the League had announced its intention to ‘draw into its ranks the clearest thinking youth of our generation. We aim to help the labour movement win the youth for the advance to the new socialist order and to train our members to be honest, clear thinking and energic builders of the new socialist order.’

Post-war the League acted as an educational, social and political organisation, one highlight being the organisation of the Youth Carnival for Peace in 1952.

Published resources

Archival resources

  • The University of Melbourne Archives
    • Eureka Youth League
    • Eureka Youth League
    • Blake, Audrey
    • Eureka Youth League
    • Eureka Youth League
    • Eureka Youth League
    • Eureka Youth League

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