Chummy Fleming
John William 'Chummy' Fleming (1863 – 25 January 1950) was a pioneer unionist, agitator for the unemployed, and anarchist in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
"Chummy" Fleming was instrumental in starting May Day celebrations and marches in Melbourne. He was a member of the Melbourne Anarchist Club which formed on 1 May 1886, the first formal anarchist organisation in Australia. In 1899 he was elected to the Trades Hall Eight Hours Day committee and to the executive of Trades Hall Council. He was President of the Fitzroy Political Labor League, the forerunner to an Australian Labor Party branch. For more than sixty years he was a regular speaker at the Queens Wharf and Yarra Bank speakers corners on Sundays.
Read more about Chummy Fleming: Early Life, Sunday Liberation, Union Agitation, Unemployed Agitation, Melbourne Anarchist Club, The Anarchist and The Governor-General, "Rich Man's War and The Poor Man's Fight", Yarra Banker
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“Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.”
—Ian Fleming (1908–1964)