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About Alfred Blackwell
- Alfred Joseph (Alf) Blackwell (9 April 1876 – 16 October 1955) was an Australian politician who represented the South Australian House of Assembly multi-member seat of West Torrens from 1918 to 1938 for the Labor Party, excluding the 1931–34 Labor split, when he sat with the splinter Parliamentary Labor Party.Blackwell was a butcher by trade.
- He became the assistant secretary and organiser of the state branch of the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union in 1910, and its state general secretary in 1916.
- He also served as vice-president of the union's federal council, and as its delegate to the United Trades and Labour Council of South Australia.
- He served as a councillor and an alderman of the Town of Thebarton, and was mayor of Thebarton in 1918 and 1919.
- He later served as state president of the Australian Railways Union for over a decade until 1931.He was elected to the House of Assembly at the 1918 election.
- He was a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Railways from 1926 to 1927, and of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works from 1927 to 1938.He suffered a family tragedy in 1928 when two of his children were killed when their cart was hit by a train.
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