after they denounced the state executive as corrupt and useless. Rosa then chaired the first conference of the Industrial Socialist Labor Party. In 1923, after leaving Truth, he edited Common Cause, the journal of the Australian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation, and in 1925 became leader-writer and literary editor of the Labor Daily when it amalgamated with Common Cause. In 1934 he returned to Truth, and in 1937 he was elected president of the Society of Australian Composers and Authors. He died in 1940. References Bibliography 1866 births 1940 deaths Australian socialists Australian journalists