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Bill Andersen Was New Zealand’s Leading Communist and Trade Union Leader
By the 1970s, New Zealand’s union movement had grown to become powerful, popular, and left-wing. This was in large part thanks to leaders like Bill Anderson, whose organizing skills were matched by his political vision.