Harold Boland

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Harold Boland (21 October 1891 in Long Angle, New South Wales — 25 July 1956) was a shearer and trade unionist. Throughout his life, Boland had received no formal education at a school, because of working for a lot of his childhood/teenage years. In 1905, Bolan joined the Australian Worker's union, he became an organizer for the worker's union, and was made a secretary in Sydney, Australia.

Boland was the organizer for the A.W.U between 1920, before leaving that job and moving across Australia, to look for work in Queensland, it was here were he was employed as a shearer. Still in Queensland at this time, he was given back his old of with a different title of 'A.W.U's Western District organizer. In 1947, he was elected the President of Queensland, and was the head of the largest union in Australia. Due to this, he was he was elected to be the leader/president of the Austrlian labor party, he was also give the role of leader for Australian newspaper, The Worker.^[1]