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Submitted by miek on Tue, 20/05/2008 - 04:43
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 Tom Glynn was a blacksmith and a migrant worker from County Galway in Ireland. He arrived in Melbourne around 1889 and shortly afterwards enlisted for the Boer War where he was mentioned in dispatches for bravery and court martialled for refusing to carry out the order of a British officer to shoot a Boer child. A prominent IWW activist and thinker here in Australia who held many roles in the union. One of those “Sydney 12” framed during the conscription referendums.
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