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

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


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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

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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