Wharfies: A History of the Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia

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Page 296 Abbreviations ACTU Australian Council of Trade Unions AEWL Association of Employers of Waterfront Labour AFSA Australian Foremen Stevedores' Association ALP Australian Labor Party AMOU Australian Marine Officers' Union AMWSU Amalgamated Metal Workers' and Shipwrights' Union ANL Australian National Line ASIA Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority ASIB Australian Stevedoring Industry Board ASIO Australian Security Intelligence Organisation ASSA Australian Supervising Stevedores' Association AWU Australian Workers' Union BHP The Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited CBH Co-operative Bulk Handling CPA Communist Party of Australia CSR Colonial Sugar Refineries DLP Democratic Labor Party ETU Electrical Trades Union FCU Federated Clerks' Union FIA Federated Ironworkers' Association FLU Fremantle Ironworkers' Associaion FMWU Federated Miscellaneous Workers' Union IRC Industrial Relations Commission ILWU International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union ISC InterState Commission ITF International Transport workers' Federation IWW International Workers of the World MSG Merchant Services Guild MUA Maritime Union of Australia MVD Soviet secret police MWLU Melbourne Wharf Labourers' Union NFF National Farmers' Federation NZWWF New Zealand Waterside Workers' Federation OBU One Big Union OSRA Overseas and Shipping Representatives' Association P and Cs Permanent and Casual Wharf Labourers' Union P&O Peninsula and Orient steamship company (originally) PAWMA Port Adelaide WorkingMen's Association PPSA Port Philip Stevedores' Association Page 297 SIRC Stevedoring Industry Review Commission SPA Socialist Party of Australia SPU Storemen and Packers' Union SSOF australian SteamShip Owners' Federation SUA Seamen's Union of Australian SWLU Sydney Wharf Labourers' Union TWF Transport Workers' Federation TWU Transport Workers' Union WFTU World Federation of Trade Unions WIRA Waterfront Industry Reform Authority WIU Workers' Industrial Union WWF Waterside Workers' Federation FOREWORD vii INTRODUCTION ix CHAPTER ONE - Before 1902 1 Wharf labouring in nineteenth century Australia Early wharf labouring organisations, The 1890 Maritime Strike, The 1890s depression, The Labor Party and William Morris Hughes, Working life CHAPTER TWO -1902-1916 21 The birth of the Watersider Workers' Federation Beasts of burden, Inching forward - Industrial life of the WWE, The first national agreement, If a man keeps a horse ... ": The 1914 award, Goodbye Billy CHAPTER THREE - 1917-1927 45 Strikes, riots and labour bureaus The 1917 General Strike, 1919, Fremantle 1919 and Bloody Sunday, Looking outward: The early 1920s, Inside the WWF in the early 1920s, The Cairns Rotary Dispute, Internal politics in the WWF: 1926 and 1927 CHAPTER FOUR- 1928-1937 76 The 1928 strike and the Depression Nosebleed, frostbite, maggots and bee money, The Beeby award and the 1928 strike, Joe Morris resigns, The Transport Workers' Act, Cancellation of preference, Bashings, bluemetal and bullets, Slaughter on November 1st, Bombs, The Great Depression, Downhill: to 1934, Plummeting finances and membership, Dissent, The late 1930s, Jim Healy CHAPTER FIVE 1937-1949 104 World War and Cold War The Pig Iron Dispute, Scabs and the Transport Workers' Act, War begins, The Stevedoring Industry Commission, The McQueen Report, Waterfront work during the war, After the war, The Dutch shipping ban, Post-war in the Federation, Absorbing the Permanent and Casuals' Union, 1948 and 1949, Crisis in the Stevedoring Industry Commission, The 1949 Coal Strike CHAPTER SIX 1949-1961 140 Decade of confrontation Banning the Communist Party, First aid, rotation of hatches and sling loads, Ted Roach goes to gaol ... again, The 1951 New Zealand waterfront lockout, Divisors and margins, Troops fly into Bowen, Women, sport and culture, Goodbye Groupers, The Petrov Commission, The Recruitment Dispute of 1954, The Margins Dispute, The Tait Inquiry, The Hursey Case, Mechanisation, Vale Jim Healy CHAPTER SEVEN -1961-1977 200 Containerisation and membership decline Amendments to the Stevedoring Industry Act 1961, The pensions campaign, The Woodward Inquiry, The 1965 legislation, The peace movement and Vietnam, The National Stevedoring Industry Conference: 1965-1967, Decade of change: 1967-1977, The 1970 strike, The 1974 strike, Govemment departs the industry CHAPTER EIGHT 1977-1993 245 Industry unionism and waterfront reform The Hawke Government and the Prices and Incomes Accord, Charlie Fitzgibbon retires, Norm Docker: a year in the top job, Recession, and Tas Bull, Waterfront reform, Task Force on shore-based shipping costs, The Stevedoring Industry Review Committee and the Interstate Commission, The Interstate Commission report, The Waterfront Industry Reform Authority, The WWF transformed, Amalgamation moves, Exit Tas Bull, The Maritime Union of Australia ABBREVIATIONS 296 (Pages 296 & 297 were in too bad of a condition to be scanned, and their contents will be written below. The acronyms' words're capitalised based on the letters in the acronym.) CHAPTER NOTES 298 INDEX 318 Page 296 Abbreviations ACTU Australian Council of Trade Unions AEWL Association of Employers of Waterfront Labour AFSA Australian Foremen Stevedores' Association ALP Australian Labor Party AMOU Australian Marine Officers' Union AMWSU Amalgamated Metal Workers' and Shipwrights' Union ANL Australian National Line ASIA Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority ASIB Australian Stevedoring Industry Board ASIO Australian Security Intelligence Organisation ASSA Australian Supervising Stevedores' Association AWU Australian Workers' Union BHP The Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited CBH Co-operative Bulk Handling CPA Communist Party of Australia CSR Colonial Sugar Refineries DLP Democratic Labor Party ETU Electrical Trades Union FCU Federated Clerks' Union FIA Federated Ironworkers' Association FLU Fremantle Ironworkers' Associaion FMWU Federated Miscellaneous Workers' Union IRC Industrial Relations Commission ILWU International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union ISC InterState Commission ITF International Transport workers' Federation IWW International Workers of the World MSG Merchant Services Guild MUA Maritime Union of Australia MVD Soviet secret police MWLU Melbourne Wharf Labourers' Union NFF National Farmers' Federation NZWWF New Zealand Waterside Workers' Federation OBU One Big Union OSRA Overseas and Shipping Representatives' Association P and Cs Permanent and Casual Wharf Labourers' Union P&O Peninsula and Orient steamship company (originally) PAWMA Port Adelaide WorkingMen's Association PPSA Port Philip Stevedores' Association Page 297 SIRC Stevedoring Industry Review Commission SPA Socialist Party of Australia SPU Storemen and Packers' Union SSOF australian SteamShip Owners' Federation SUA Seamen's Union of Australian SWLU Sydney Wharf Labourers' Union TWF Transport Workers' Federation TWU Transport Workers' Union WFTU World Federation of Trade Unions WIRA Waterfront Industry Reform Authority WIU Workers' Industrial Union WWF Waterside Workers' Federation