This photograph from page 1 of The Socialist, 2 June 1906, shows packed crowds attending the Bijou Theatre in Melbourne for a Sunday Socialist Party lecture which took place on 20 May 1906.

Tom Mann, the lecturer, is on the left of the pair standing in the aisle. John Curtin's friend, Frank Hyett, is on Mann's right.

NLA MS3939 Series 11
By permission of the National Library of Australia.

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