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WATERSIDE WORKERS FEDERATION

Deposit No. Z432: Federal Office

SITE LIST Receipt Dates Quantity Location 31 Mar 1992 5 cartons and 1 parcel (D1-D5) Stack 294-295 5 May 1992 12 cartons (D6-14) Stack 294-295 27 May 1992 9 cartons & 1 archives box (4-13) Stack 294-295 11 Nov 1992 69 cartons & 1 parcel (14-78) Stack 294-295 21 Dec 1992 2 cartons (80-81- No 79) Stack 294-295 18 May 1993 18 cartons Stack 294-295 13 Jul 1994 2 parcels Stack 294-295 13 Jun/23 Dec 1996 1 bundle (82-86) Stack 294-295 Notes: 31 Mar 1992 5 cartons and 1 parcel of donated ACTU material – circulars and Executive

minutes (cartons D1 to D5) 5 May 1992 12 cartons containing donated material – newspaper clippings and ACTU

Bulletins and Newsletters (cartons numbered D6 to D14) and copies of Port News in cartons 1-3 (Boxes 1-3)

27 May 1992 9 cartons and 1 archives box containing miscellaneous material, rules, instruction booklets, published histories, circulars and records of N. Docker. Records of CH Fitzgibbon were also sent, but these were removed to his personal collection at P101 (remaining cartons numbered Boxes 4-13)

11 Nov 1992 65 cartons and 1 parcel. Circulars, minutes and subject files A-Z (Boxes 14-78) Documents in the parcel were re-distributed as specified in letter to WWF 16 November 1992 (see 3E-N/MUA)

21 Dec 1992 2 cartons containing Brisbane Branch records and various items from Federal Office (Boxes 80-81)

18 May 1993 18 cartons: Cartons 1-16 = the last of the hard copy membership cards (see 3E-N/MUA - letter, 14 May 1993, for details of the membership cards system) (removed to

mailto:[email protected]

Z361) Cartons 17-18 = miscellaneous records, including floppy disc copies of membership records. Note: any unwanted or duplicate material may be returned to the Federation (Boxes 82-83)

13 Jul 1994 2 parcels labelled 19 and 20: Parcel 19 contains sound recordings, possibly from Newcastle Branch (Box 84) Parcel 20 contains photographs, 1900-1970, and miscellaneous documents (Boxes 85-86)

1995 Ina Heidtman borrowed parcel 20 (dispatched 3 Nov 1995; see loan #41). Not all items have been returned, May 2008 (see X:\Archives\Private\Collection\Lists\Lists by Deposit Number\Z Deposits\Z400-499\Z432 Loans to MUA)

13 Jun 1996 12 cartons received: Cartons 1-11 = returned items from loan, made to Margo Beasley, Jun 1993; Carton 12 (aka parcel 21) contained photographs (oversized) and printed material from Federal Office (Box 85)

Oct 1996/18 Dec 1996 Loan to MUA photographs from Z432/parcels 20-21; Z248/Boxes 80-82 23 Dec 1996 1 carton received; added to Z432/Box 22

Records were originally part of four boxes of unidentified material returned with Margo Beasley’s loan of Jun 1993; additional material was added in Dec 1996. Now Z248/109; Z387/45-50 - see Processing Notes for full details.

Oct 2003 Cartons 1 to 16 (of 18 deposited 18 May 1992); removed to Z631 Apr 2006 Received 170 photographs, with digital reproductions on CD. Some photographs

were part of the group lent to MUA (Beasley in 1993; Heidtman in 1995); others were new items. Loan items were returned to Z432/Box 86, Z248/Boxes 80-82 and T62/63/14 (K4052); new items were located in Z668/Box 34; Z263/Box 91; Z91/Box135. Digital versions (.jpgs) are located in Demetrius, ANU Archives Program http://dspace.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/1. (see 3E-N/MUA for details)

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Z432 – WATERSIDE WORKERS’ FEDERATION OF AUSTRALIA: Federal Office (Site List)

Boxes 24-78 Detailed file list at Appendix A 3 of 15

Z432

- see letter, dated 4 May 1992, on file 3E-N/MUA regarding ‘D’ material below

Box D1 ACTU Circulars Vols 17-21 1982-83 Now S888 (12/1992)

Box D2 ACTU Circulars Vols 22-24 1984-1987 Now S888

Box D2 ACTU Committee and Group meetings Vols 12-13 1985-88

Box D3 ACTU Committee and Group meetings Vol 14 1989

Box D3 ACTU Congress Vols 14-17 1979-1985

Box D4 ACTU Executive meetings Vols 26-29 1985-1986

Box D5 ACTU Executive meetings Vols 30-32 1987

Par D6 ACTU Executive meetings Vol 33 1987

Boxes D6-13 Miscellaneous newspaper clippings

Box D14 Miscellaneous ACTU Bulletins, Newsletters &c.

Deposited 5 May 1992

Box 1 Port News 1970-1973



Box 3 Australian Foreman Stevedores Review Journals 1981-1984

Box 4 Miscellaneous historical material (see Appendix C)

Box 5-6 Norm Docker material (see Appendix D)

Box 6 C H Fitzgibbon material Now P102

Boxes 7-18 WWF Circulars 1967-1975

Box 19 WWF auditors’ reports &c 1956-1971

Box 19-21 Federal Council and All-Ports Meetings 1967-1981

Box 21 Federal Financial Statements (see also Box 19) 1973-1980

Box 21 Branch Financial Statements – Qld Branch 1970-1987

Box 22 Branch Financial Statements – NSW 1972-1987

Box 22 Branch Financial Statements – VIC 1965-1987

Box 23 Branch Financial Statements – TAS 1965-1987

Box 23 Branch Financial Statements – SA 1964-1987

Box 23 Branch Financial Statements – Darwin 1977-1982

Box 23 Branch Financial Statements – WA 1976-1987

Boxes 24-78 Subject files - Appendix A for detailed file list

Box 24 Aborigines 1976-1908

Box 24 AMWSU 1975-1983

Box 24 ANRO service 1977

Box 24-25 Areas of Work

Box 25-26 Australian National Line

Box 26 Asbestos Vol 1& 2 1961-1981

Box 26-27 ACTU

Box 27 Australian Foremen Stevedores Association 1970-1981

Box 27 Australian Freezers Pty Ltd 1974-1985

Box 27-28 Australian Labor Party

Box 28 Australian National Line

Box 28 Australian Workers Union

Box 28 Awards

Box 28 Bans

Box 29 Brisbane Amalgamated Terminals Ltd

Box 29 Brisbane Wharves & Wool Dumping P/L

Box 29 Britain 1968-1978

Box 29 British Phosphate Commission 1947-1981

Box 29-30 BHP



Box 30 Cargoes

Box 30 China

Box 31 Christmas Island 1977-1982

Box 31 City Centre Cold Stores P/L, Sydney 1978-1983

Box 31 Coles Bay Granite P/L 1978-1980

Box 31 COMALCO Aluminium (Bell Bay) 1963-1973

Box 31 Common User Berth – Melbourne 1970-1974

Box 31 Common User Berth - Sydney 1970-1974

Box 31 CONAUST Ltd, Brisbane

Box 31 CONAUST Ltd, Sydney

Box 31 Conciliation and Arbitration Act

Box 31 Consolidated Stevedores Pty Ltd

Box 31 Cool Stores

Box 33-34 Co-operative Bulk Handling Ltd

Box 34-35 Co-ordinating Committees - Port

Box 35 Credit Union

Box 35 Discipline

Box 35 Donations

Box 35 Early retirement

Box 35 Ecology/Environment

Box 35 Economy

Box 36-7 Employment

Box 37 Enna G (vessel) 1973-1982

Box 37 Equalisation

Box 37 Federated Clerks Union

Box 37 Federated Miscellaneous Workers’ Union

Box 37 Federated Shipwrights & Ship Constructors Association of Australia

Box 38 First Aid

Box 38 Freightbases P/L

Box 38 Fremantle Port Authority

Box 38 Geelong Container Terminal Ltd

Box 38 Glebe Island Terminal

Government Department/Bodies

Grain

Holidays

Box 39 (William) Holyman & Sons P/L

Box 39 Hours of Work

Box 39 Industrial clothing

Box 39 Industry training

Box 39-40 International

Box 40 International Affairs and Relations

Box 40 International Cargo Handling Co-ordination Association

Box 40 International Labour Organisation

Box 40 International Longshoremen’s & Warehousemen’s Union

Box 41 International South Pacific Bureau Economic Cooperation (SPEC)

Box 41 International South Pacific Dock Workers’ Conference 1975

Box 41 International South Pacific Dock Works’ Council

Box 41-43 International Transport Workers Federation (ITF)

Box 43 John Burke Group

Box 43 Koorang Coal Loader

Box 43 Labour distribution

Box 43 Labour rationalisation

Box 43 Liner Freight Services P/L

Box 43 Liner Services P/L

Box 44 Leave

Liquid



Manganese

Manning

Maritime Industry Inquiry 1974

Maritime Worker

Mechanisation

Box 45 Medical Clinics

Newcastle Cranes Branch

Nickel

Ocean Island

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Packing/unpacking

Papua New Guinea Waterside Workers & Semen’s Union – Award 1981

Peace

(V. B.) Perkins & Co

Box 46 Port Development

Port of Geelong Authority

Port of Melbourne Authority

Box 46-49 Port Orders

Box 49 Port Quotas

Recruitment

Box 49-50 Redundancy

Box 50-51 Rosters

Box 51-53 Safety

Box 54 Seatainer Terminals Ltd – agreements

Box 54 Shifts

Shipbuilding/Repair

Box 54-55 Shipping Clerks

Shipwrights

Social Welfare

Southern Shipping Lines

South Africa

South East Asia

Box 55-64 Stevedoring Industry

Box 64 Stevedoring Industry Acts

Stoppages and Strikes

FG Strang Pty Ltd

Box 64-65 Superannuation

Box 66 Supplementary Labour

Tasmanian Transport Commission Shipping Service

Taxation

Technological Change

Terminals and depots

Terminals and Depots Employers’ Federation

Trade Practices Act

Box 66-68 Transport Industries Advisory Council (TIAC)

Box 69 Transfers

Box 70 Trans-ocean Terminals

Box 70 Union Bulkships P/L

Uranium

Box 70-72 Wages

Box 72-78 Waterside Workers Federation

Box 78 Wool

Box 78 Working Conditions

Box 78 World Federation of Trade Unions

Bundle 79 Contents re-distributed (see letter, dated 16 Nov 1992, file 3E-N/MUA, for details)


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Box 80 Brisbane Branch material (for detailed list of file contents see Z432 Appendix B

Box 81 Miscellaneous publications, 2 x sound recordings – notes, eulogies, reports, articles – for detailed list of file contents see Z432 Appendix B

Additional deposit received May 1992

Z631/1-6 Membership cards

Box 82 (ex Box 17 of the May 1992 deposit) Miscellaneous records, listed, as follows:

WWF filing lists as at Sep 1985 1985

WWF filing list established 1987 1987

Linedex (copy) referred to in 1985 listing

Inquiry into waterfront by Waterfront Industry Reform Authority (WIRA) - In-principle agreement, Sep 1989 - Reports (6), Apr 1990 - Oct 1992 - Booklet issued by WIRA at end of inquiry, Oct/Nov 1989

1989

Report on transport, communications and infrastructure ‘Efficiency of interface between seaports and land transport – Wharf to Warehouse’, House of Representatives Standing Committee

Apr 1992

Stevedoring Industry Award 1991 (as at Feb 1992)

Copy of a letters from Arthur Sherlock, 23 Nov 1992 enclosing cuttings from the Adelaide Advertiser, Apr-May 1943, regarding the export of scrap iron to Japan (which may not be with other material on this subject)

Instructions from the Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority (ASIA) regarding long service leave for waterside workers

30 Jun 1971

Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority (ASIA) - memo to all local representatives regarding the amendments to the Stevedoring Industry Act with regards to long service leave

7 Nov 1966

Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority (ASIA) - notice to waterside workers regarding the long service scheme

9 Nov 1966

Programme for the first showing of the WWF Film Unit’s film ‘The Hungry Mile’, Sydney Branch Office

9 Mar 1995

Copy of indenture of Alfred Shurey of Fitzroy, Melbourne, as an apprentice for seven years to James Leverett, harness maker of Melbourne

11 Jan 1870

Address to the Productivity Council by C H Fitzgibbon 24 Jun 1986

Essay by Ryl Fardell ‘Mechanisation and containerisation of the Australian Waterfront in the 1950s and 1960s: were the unions a significant impediment to structural change? (BEc Hons, ANU)

1990

Phillip Reade and Tony Maguire, ‘Time to get tough on the waterfront’ (Readers Digest).

Oct 1991

C T Ryan ‘Ships and sickles – the Communists and three Australian maritime unions, 1928-1945’, (MA (Hons) UNSW)

1989

Captain James Gaby (ex- foreman stevedore and industrial officer for the Overseas Shipping Representatives Association), The Restless Waterfront, together with an unsigned critique and a cutting from the National Times, 11-16 November 1974

Personal folder of Leo Lenane (former Federal Organiser of the WWF) relating to the 1974 contract with the employers


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Tom Nelson (ex Sydney Branch Secretary and Federal Councillor), The hungry mile. / Syd., [Waterside Workers Federation (Sydney Branch)], 1957. illus (reprinted to commemorate the opening of the new Sydney Branch building, 1 Jul 1992)

1957 now Library HD6894.W52 W35

Ship to shore : a history of Melbourne's waterfront and its union struggles Lockwood, Rupert Sydney : Hale & Iremonger, ca. 1990

1990 now Library HD6894.L82W375 1990

Four discs of membership records, as at March 1992, giving particulars of present members and comparatively recently retired members

1992

Phil O’Brien (ex official of the Brisbane Branch), Towards Peace – a worker’s journey

1992

The background of the waterfront, produced and published on behalf of the Shipping and Stevedoring companies in Australia

1963

War on the waterfront: Menzies, Japan and the pig-iron dispute. Lockwood, Rupert. Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, ca.1987 [autographed copy]

1987 now Library DU113.5.J3L63

Additional deposit received Jul 1992

Box 83 (ex Box 18)

Reports of the Australian Stevedoring Industry Board and, later, the Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority. 3x4-post volumes. Note: these copies of the reports were collated by Mr CH Fitzgibbon.

Additional deposits received Jul 1992; Jun 1996

Sound recordings

Box 84 (ex Box 19)

Long time ago ; [other tracks : EP]. Contents: 1. Long time ago (The Young Folk) -- 2. Shadows on the wall (Jean lewis) -- 3. Sweet song for Katie (Dick Hackett) -- 4. Atomic lullaby (Chris Shaw) -- Out back (Dick Hackett) -- 6. Weevils in the flour (Ken Raffe). Mutual Records. 1 sound disc : analogue, 33⅓ rpm.

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Faces in the Street: a selection of Australian verse and song, by The Nomads Three, Lorna Cooper and Clarrie Reilly. Contents: 1. Faces in the Street -- 2. The Christening -- 3. Eubalong Ball -- 4. Waltzing Matilda -- 5. Texas Jack -- 6. The Men Who Made Australia -- 7. Freedom’s on the Wallaby -- 8. Reedy River -- 9. Click go the Shears -- 10.The Waratah and the Wattle -- 11. Romeo and Juliet. Vista Recording Studios, Victoria. 1 sound disc : analogue, 33⅓ rpm.

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1956 Strike - Trade Union Talk, Waterside Workers' Federation Newcastle Branch. 1 sound disc : analogue, 33⅓ rpm.

1956


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Documents

Box 85 (ex 21)

Illuminated certificate presented to office staff of the Melbourne Wharf Labourers’ Union by the wives and families of Melbourne Wharf Labourers’ Union members in appreciation for assistance received during the Bureau Dispute, 1917-1919 (shows Melbourne Waterside Workers’ Union banner) (see Wharfies by Margo Beasley, p. 49) (includes reproduction copy)

May 1919

Printed Material

Box 85 (ex 21)

The Waterside Workers Gazette. The Official Organ of the Council of the Waterside Workers' Confederation of Australia (photocopy)

Oct 1903; Sep 1904

IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) members charged with treason - sensational revelations, The Sydney Mail, p.7 (photocopy) - includes photographs of the 12 accused; see also – ‘Explanation with Rules of the IWW’, deposited with NBAC, Mar 1981 [item no?]

18 Oct 1916

Photographs

Box 85 (ex 20)

Waterside Workers Federation Conference, Melbourne, Delegates (includes A Fisher and W M Hughes) (mounted & identified)

30 Oct 1912

Box 85 (ex 20)

Waterside Workers Federation, Committee of Management 1921-1922

Box 85 (ex 20)

Federated Waterside Workers Union, Brisbane Branch, Executive Officers

1908

Box 85 (ex 21)

ACTU Congress Delegates, Melbourne 1938

Box 85 (ex 21)

Fremantle Branch Committee of Management members (identified)

1955-1956

Box 85 (ex 21)

WWF Urangan Branch float (1st prize Industrial Section), May Day march (Don Davies photo)

1958

Box 85 (ex 20)

South Townsville football team (juniors) - Premiers, 1902-1903 1903

Box 85 (ex 20)

WWF Rugby League Football Club, Sydney Branch, 1951; toured and played Wellington, Auckland, New Zealand; undefeated (mounted; members identified)

1951

Items received Apr 2006

Box 86 Photographs – for detailed list see next page


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Items received Apr 2006

Photographs

Several of the following photographs appear in Maritime Worker, Maritime Workers’ Journal and in Margo Beasley’s Wharfies : the history of the Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, 1872-1972; digital versions (.jpgs) located in Demetrius, ANU Archives Program http://dspace.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/1

Box 86 Headquarters, Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, Sussex Street, Sydney

Waterside Workers Federation of Australia, Sydney Branch, 1899-1920 - history panel. One of a series of thirteen illustrated panels, depicting 120 years of branch history, 1872-1991, which were produced by Tom Nelson, Ina Heidtman, Sonny Glynn and Ralph Sawyer at the Sussex Street headquarters from 1954. (see Wharfies by Margo Beasley, p. 163; A Tapestry of Australia: The Sydney Wharfies Mural by Andrew Reeves, p. 8-9)

1899-1920

The Sydney Wharfies Mural. Painted on the walls of the Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia’s Sussex Street headquarters between 1953 and 1965, the Sydney Wharfies Mural weaves waterside history, labour history and Australian history like a tapestry, portraying writer Henry Lawson, the struggle for the 8 hour day, the Depression, the gaoling of Newcastle coal union leader Peter Bowling, the writings of Karl Marx, the pick up, conscription, both world wars, the general strike, soldiers coming home, the bull days and the wharves, police confrontations, the Communist Party, the dole queue, the Spanish Civil War, wharfies' leader Jim Healy, Hitler's concentration camps and the fight against fascism. Artists involved in the mural include Rod Shaw, Sonny Glynn, Vi Collings, Clem Millward, Ralph Sawyer, Pat Graham and Evelyn Healy. The mural has been donated to the Australian National Maritime Museum by he Maritime Union of Australia, New South Wales Branch. (see Wharfies by Margo Beasley p. iii-iv; A Tapestry of Australia: The Sydney Wharfies Mural by Andrew Reeves)

1872-1991

Headquarters, Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, 60-66 Sussex Street, Sydney

1991

Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, Brisbane Branch

Executive officers, Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, Brisbane Branch (see Wharfies by Margo Beasley, p. 27)

1908

Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, Bundaberg Branch

Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, Bundaberg Branch picnic at Moore Park, Bundaberg (see Wharfies by Margo Beasley, p. 124)

24 Feb 1947

Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, Bundaberg Branch Labour Day procession (see Wharfies by Margo Beasley, p. 121)

ca. 1950s

Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, Bundaberg Branch Labour Day float ca. 1950s

Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, Cairns Branch

Committee of Management, Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, Cairns Branch (see Wharfies by Margo Beasley, p. 32)

1903

Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, Townsville Branch

Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, Townsville Branch banner nd

Working conditions

Lumpers at work, Fremantle wharf (see Wharfies by Margo Beasley, p. 71) early 1900s

Melbourne waterside workers Sydney (see Wharfies by Margo Beasley, p. 30) 1903

Waterside workers loading a ship in Melbourne nd

Dockworkers discharging lumber from Muscoota in Melbourne harbour; Muscoota, an American four-masted barque, is commanded by Captain A C Wilvers (see Wharfies by Margo Beasley, p. 55)

Dec 1922

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‘Dog Collar’ licence issued to Waterside Workers under the Transport Workers’ Act of 1928; licences were periodically revised and waterside workers could not offer for work without them (see Wharfies by Margo Beasley p. 83)

1929

North Queensland sugar port; bulk loading was achieved in northern Queensland sugar ports in 1957

ca. 1957

Waterside workers’ change rooms in Sydney; a nail for a clothes hook was placed in the wall and a piece of paper protected the clothing from the dirty wall (see Wharfies by Margo Beasley, p. 205)

early 1960s

Stevedoring operations, Melbourne wharves early 1960s

Stevedoring operations, Seatainer Terminals Ltd (STL) depot, Melbourne (see Maritime Worker, Jun 1987)

1987

May Day, 1950s-1980s

Display of banners of WWF leaders - Ted Roach, Jim Healy, Tom Nelson, Jack Beitz and ‘Dutchy’ Young - at a May Day demonstration in front the Burlington Hotel, corner Hay and Sussex Streets, Sydney, (see Wharfies by Margo Beasley p. 179).

ca. 1950s

May Day procession - Jim Healy, General Secretary, Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia (centre)

1953

Waterside workers lampoon the Petrov Commission’s Christmas Party during a May Day march in Sydney (see Wharfies by Margo Beasley, p. 167)

1954

May Day float - depicts United States’ General Curtis LeMay’s quote of May 1964: ‘Tell them [the Vietnamese] frankly that they’ve got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression, or we’re going to bomb them back into the Stone Age’

1964

May Day procession, Sydney 1967

May Day procession, Sydney ca. 1960s

May Day procession, Sydney. First May Day march after the liberation of Ho Chi Minh City - Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia salutes the unification of Vietnam

1976

May Day procession, Sydney; George Gotsis (centre) ca. 1970s

WWF Women’s Committee float, Labour (May) Day procession, Brisbane (The float, which attacked Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser’s wage freeze, won first prize)

late 1970s

May Day procession, Sydney; L-R: Bernie Dunn (Sydney Branch), Tom Supple (partly obscured) (Secretary , Sydney Branch), Frank Toohey (retired), Rod Mitchell (Transport Workers’ Union), Don Gillies (Vigilance Officer, Sydney Branch), Jim Keogh (Port Kembla Branch), Tas Bull (Acting General Secretary), John Healy (President (retired), Sydney Branch), Jim Rodgers (Vice President , Sydney Branch) and Leo Lenane (Acting Assistant General Secretary) (see Maritime Worker, Jun 1985 p. 19)

1985

Protests and demonstrations

Drawn batons in port riot - mounted police charging Port Adelaide rioters (reproduction of front page of The Register News-Pictorial, Adelaide) (see Wharfies by Margo Beasley, p. 86)

Feb 1929

Waterside workers’ demonstration outside Workers’ Pay Centre, Sydney ca. 1950s

Waterside workers’ demonstration, Sydney ca. 1950s

Waterside workers campaigning in Sydney (digital copy only; print not found, Jul 2008)

1950s

Jim ‘Dutchy’ Young, President, Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, Sydney Branch, addresses a meeting at Wooloomooloo

ca. 1950s

Jim ‘Dutchy’ Young, President, Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, Sydney Branch, addresses a Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia meeting in the Sydney Domain

ca. 1950s

Jack Beitz, General President, Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, addressing a stop work meeting in Sydney

ca. 1950s

Jack Hartly, delegate, Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia addresses ship’s crew, Sydney

ca. 1960s

Jack Hartly, delegate, Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia addresses ship’s crew, Sydney

ca. 1960s


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Stan Moran addresses the crowd at the ‘Hands Off Cuba’ demonstration in Sydney’s Wynyard Square (see Maritime Worker, Apr 1961, p. 1; Jan 1965, p. 7)

Apr 1961

Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, Sydney Branch Rally against the United States invasion of Cuba, Wynyard Park, Sydney (Photography: F Murray, L Shea – John Fairfax & Sons Ltd) ) (see Wharfies by Margo Beasley, p. 211; Maritime Worker, Apr 1961, p. 1)

Apr 1961

Workers’ compensation rally, Sydney Jul 1989

Ken Smith, official, Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, Sydney Branch leads a demonstration march for higher wages in Sydney

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Peace rallies, 1980s

Palm Sunday rally for peace, [Sydney] 1985



Palm Sunday rally for peace, [Sydney] 26 Mar 1986

Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia rally for peace, Sydney ca. 1986

Boycotts and bans, 1980s

Port Jackson during the Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia’s ban on South African ships protesting apartheid (Photographer: Merv Fitzhenery) (see Maritime Worker, Jun 1989)

Apr 1989

Waterside worker (unidentified) in Sydney during the Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia’s ban on Fijian ships after the military coup that overthrew the Bavadra government (see Maritime Worker, Jun 1987)

15 May 1987

Wharf labourers’ boycott - New Zealand cargo ship SS Wanaka ca. 1960s

WWF Women’s Committee

Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia Women’s Committee members, Sydney - Mrs J Healy (2nd from right)

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Representatives of Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia Women’s Committees from various ports in front of the Sydney Women’s Committee banner (see Wharfies by Margo Beasley, p. 160)

ca. 1950s

Christmas Hamper Appeal, Second World War

Waterside workers contribute to the Christmas Hamper Appeal during the Second World War (see Wharfies by Margo Beasley, p. 112)

ca. 1942

1980 Olympic Games Boycott

Fun Run, Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia’s Sydney Branch ‘Alternative Olympics’ (‘Alternative Olympics’ organised by the Sydney Branch as a protest against Prime Minister Fraser’s decision not to send an Australian team to the Moscow Olympics following the Russian invasion of Afghanistan.)

1980

Meetings, Conferences and Conventions

Delegates to the All Ports Conference, Sydney. The two women in the photograph are thought to be the wives of Joe Morris (General Secretary) and Arthur Turley (General President) (see Wharfies by Margo Beasley, p. 63)

15 Oct 1924

President Young welcomes delegates to a convention. (L-R: Ina Heidtmann, Snowy Teasel, Tom Nelson, Jack Hartley and Jim ‘Dutchy’ Young (Photographer: V Rapp)

21 Aug 1955

Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia’s all-ports conference, Sydney ca. 1950s

Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia’s all-ports conference, Sydney ca. 1950s

Tom Nelson, Secretary, Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, Sydney Branch at the union's all-ports conference, Sydney

ca. 1954

Tom Nelson, Secretary, Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, Sydney Branch at the union's all-ports conference, Sydney

ca. 1954

[unidentified speaker] addresses a Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia conference in the Sydney Town Hall

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Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia conference [location not known] nd

Pat Troy, University of Canberra; John Ducker, Chairman; Frank Purse, Federal Secretary, Building Workers’ Industrial Union of Australia (presumed to be at a Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia conference, location not known)

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Nguyen Ngoc Sinh, Vietnamese Embassy spokesman, addresses the crowded Sydney WWF Branch Hall on the tenth anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. L-R: Tom Supple (Secretary, WWF Sydney Branch); Tas Bull (Acting General Secretary, WWF); Pat Geraghty (Federal Secretary, SUA); Rick Divers (President, WWF Sydney Branch); Nguyen Ngoc Sinh (Councillor, Vietnamese Embassy); Bob Galleghan (Federal Secretary, Federated Ship Painters & Dockers Union of Australia); John Garrett (Secretary, NSW Firemen’s and Deckhands’ Union); Harry Mitchell (Assistant Secretary, Miscellaneous Workers’ Union) (see Maritime Worker, Jun 1985)

1985

Stop the dirty war in Vietnam - placard displayed during the function marking the tenth anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, Sydney WWF Branch Hall

1985

New Zealand and Australian Waterside Workers’ Federations’ representatives at their historic joint session in Sydney; L-R: Jim Joyce (Vice President, WWFNZ); Rex Powley (National Executive, WWFNZ); Warren Small (Federal Organiser, WWFA); Tas Bull (Acting General Secretary, WWFA); John Coombs (Federal Organiser, WWFA); Sam Jennings (General Secretary, WWFNZ); Bruce Malcolm (President, WWFNZ); Leo Lenane (Acting Assistant General Secretary, WWFA) (see Wharfies by Margo Beasley p. 258; Maritime Worker, Feb 1985 p. 6)

Jan 1985

Delegates vote in favour of the amalgamation of the Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia and the Seamen’s Union of Australia at the Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia’s 28th (last) National Conference, Sydney (see Wharfies by Margo Beasley p. 287)

1991

Delegates vote in favour of the amalgamation of the Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia and the Seamen’s Union of Australia at the Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia’s 28th (last) National Conference, Sydney

1991

Bill Kelty, Secretary Australian Council of Trade Unions addresses 28th National Conference Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia (Photographer: Zoe Reynolds)

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Jim ‘Dutchy’ Young, Mat Munro, Tom Nelson, Neville Isaksen, (speaker unknown), Harry Teasel, Stan Moran

ca. 1950s

Waterside worker and boxer, Jimmy Carruthers, with Queensland delegates to the All Ports Conference (see Wharfies by Margo Beasley, p. 171)

1954

Delegates to the Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia Conference, Melbourne; identified are: Billy Hughes, President WWF (grey suit in centre); Andrew Fisher (to Hughes’ right), and Joe Morris, General Secretary WWF (to Hughes’ left) (Photographer: Norman L Danvers, Sydney) (see Wharfies by Margo Beasley, p. 38)

30 Oct 1912

Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, Sydney Branch meeting; L-R: Pat Maloney, Carl Lanthry, Harry Black, John McColl, Ray Lewis, Dick Hackett

ca. 1960s

Jim ‘Dutchy’ Young, President, Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, Sydney Branch, delivers an address (occasion unknown)

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WWF members and officials

Federal Councillors, Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, Sydney – Back Row (L-R): H McAlees, A Graham, G Mullins, E Chapple, G E Thompson, S Barrett, J Young, G Waugh, C Webber, A Nicholson; Middle Row (L-R): T O’Dea, J Healy, J Lonergan, H Barnes (NZ), E Roach; Front Row (L-R): T Nelson, W Keating, C Young (Photography: Norman L Danvers, Sydney)

Jun 1945

Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia members at a union meeting; identified are Tom Nelson, Secretary, Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, Sydney Branch and Mat Munro, Assistant Secretary, Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, Sydney Branch

ca. 1954

Dick Hackett, George Goss, George Curtis and Jim Healy (see Wharfies by Margo Beasley p. 189) (2 copies)

ca. 1950s

Harry Black, Official and Federal Councillor Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, Sydney Branch

ca. 1950s


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Ina Heidtman and Harry Black nd

Stan Moran, Treasurer, Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, Sydney Branch, 1942-1964 (see Maritime Worker, Jun 1989)

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Stan Moran, Treasurer, Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, speaking to an attentive crowd

ca. 1950s

Ted Roach, Secretary, Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, Port Kembla Branch, 1938; Assistant General Secretary, Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, 1941-1967

nd

Ted Roach is raised on the shoulders of fellow waterside workers on his release from gaol (see Wharfies by Margo Beasley p. 149)

1951

Joe Carter, waterside worker, Port Kembla Branch and former member of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War (see Maritime Workers Journal, 1994)

nd

Norm Docker, former Federal Industrial Officer and Assistant General Secretary and General Secretary, Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, 1983-1984 (see Wharfies by Margo Beasley p. 232)

ca. 1970s

Jack Lonergan and Tas Bull following the launch of the publication, Politics in a Union – the Hursey Case by Tas Bull (copyright holder: The Mercury, Hobart, Tasmania)

1977

C H (Charlie) Fitzgibbon, General Secretary, Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia at a Federal Council Meeting, Sydney

1978

Harry Black, retired Official and Federal Councillor, Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, Sydney Branch receives a presentation from Tom Supple, Secretary, Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, Sydney Branch

ca. 1979

Tasnor Ivan (Tas) Bull, General Secretary, Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, 1984-1992

nd

Ricky Divers, President, Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, Sydney Branch ca. 1980s

Pat Maloney, Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia member (see Maritime Worker Nov 1987 regarding Maloney’s compensation claim for deafness)

nd

Ron Anderson, Official and Vigilance Officer, Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, Sydney Branch

nd

Ron Anderson, Official and Vigilance Officer, Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, Sydney Branch (see Maritime Worker, Apr 1985 p. 21)

1985

Arthur Moynihan, Secretary and Federal Councillor, Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, Brisbane Branch, 1985-1993

nd

Arthur Moynihan, Secretary and Federal Councillor, Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, Brisbane Branch, 1985-1993

nd

Claude Cumberlidge, Secretary, Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, Melbourne Branch

nd

Vic Slater, Secretary, Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, Fremantle Branch and Assistant General Secretary, Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia

nd

Jim ‘Dutchy’ Young, President, Waterside Workers’ Federation, Sydney Branch nd

Jim ‘Dutchy’ Young, President, Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, Sydney Branch

nd

A Fulton, President, Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, Hobart Branch; C H (Charlie) Fitzgibbon, General Secretary, Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, 1961-1983; Tas Bull, General Secretary, Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, 1984-1992 in front of a portrait of Jim Healy, General Secretary, Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, 1937-1961

nd

Bert Longbottom, Port Botany (aboriginal waterside worker) nd

Archie Arceri, Federal Councillor, WWF, Melbourne and Secretary WWF, Victoria; Charlie Fitzgibbon, General Secretary, WWF; Geoff Swayn, Secretary (retired), Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, Melbourne Branch at [a Branch celebration, Melbourne]

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Miscellaneous personalities


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James Kenny, Secretary, Trades and Labour Council addresses a meeting [location unknown]. Note: Kenny, James Denis (1906-1967); involved in public protests against the régime in South Africa, campaigns for higher wages for Aboriginal workers, and peace and disarmament rallies; main achievement was to promote better industrial conditions, including long-service leave, workers' compensation and associated benefits.

ca. 1958

Harry Bridges, President, International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union (ILWU) in the United Stats of America (copyright holder: Harvey Schwartz, 2001 c/- The Harry Bridges Institute, San Pedro, California)

ca. 1960s

Harry Bridges, President, International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union (ILWU) with Charlie Fitzgibbon, General Secretary, Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia and Sid Jones, First Aid Secretary, Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, Sydney Branch, during Bridges’ visit to Sydney (see Wharfies by Margo Beasley p. 214)

1967

Hal Alexander, Actors’ Equity of Australia, speaks in the Sydney Town Hall regarding the Social Services Report and Resolution (2 copies)

ca. 1960s

Fred Rose, waterside worker, author and professional; defected to East Germany, 1956 (see Maritime Worker, Mar 1987)

1986

John Gordon Morrison (1904-1998), waterside worker and author; recipient of the Patrick White Literary Award, 1986 and the Order of Australia, 1989 (see Maritime Worker Nov/Dec 1986)

nd

Paul Houlihan, National Farmers Federation; Jim Beggs, President, WWF; Tas Bull, Secretary, Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia (reproduced in Maritime Worker, May 1989; Jun 1989)

Apr 1989

Tas Bull, former General Secretary Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia; Bob Hawke, Prime Minister of Australia; Rupert Lockwood, editor of the Maritime Worker, at the launch of Lockwood’s book Ship to Shore: A History of Melbourne's Waterfront and its Union Struggles (see Wharfies by Margo Beasley p. 266)

1990

Waterfront Industry Reform Authority (WIRA) retiring members (unidentified), Sydney Mar 1991

Waterfront Industry Reform Authority (WIRA) retirees (unidentified), Newcastle 1992

Rupert Lockwood (1908-1997), Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia historian; editor Maritime Worker and Union Historian; author Black Armada, War on the Waterfront, Ship to Shore. Reproduced from an unknown publication.

nd

Rupert Lockwood (1908-1997), Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia historian; editor Maritime Worker and Union Historian; author Black Armada, War on the Waterfront, Ship to Shore

nd

Ralph Sawyer

Ralph Sawyer, waterside worker and artist, with one of his works, Sydney (see Maritime Worker, Dec 1985; Maritime Worker, Nov 1993)

1985

Ralph Sawyer and Max Petitt (L-R) prepare placards in the rooms of the Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia, Sydney Branch headquarters

10 Apr 1987

Banner by waterside worker and artist, Ralph Sawyer, in Sydney (see Maritime Worker, Dec 1985; Maritime Worker, Nov 1993)

ca. 1980s

Dalfram Dispute, 1938

SS Dalfram veterans, Stan Speechly and Rae Elliott at the memorial to the Dalfam Dispute, the Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia ban in 1938, at Port Kembla wharf on loading pig iron for Japan

1988

Tribune (Communist Party of Australia. Central Committee)

Distributing the Tribune, Sydney ca. 1950s

Federal Office Elections, 1988

Ballot box used in the Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia Federal elections, Sydney, March 1988 (see Maritime Worker, Aug 1986)

1988

Amalgamated Stevedores’ Labour Protection League

Amalgamated Stevedores’ Labour Protection League banner ca. 1890s


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Waterside Workers’ Gazette (reproductions)

Words for Watersiders - Waterside Workers’ Gazette Vol 2 No 9, p. 1 (reproduction) (see Wharfies by Margo Beasley p. 24)

Sep 1905

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