Contents: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Historical background of our union growth -- Chapter 2: Outline of Australian Workers' political movements -- Chapter 3: Arbitration on the waterfront -- Chapter 4: The wages question -- Chapter 5: Hours of work -- Chapter 6: Slave pens by the sea -- Chapter 7: Shipowners' organisation
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Publisher information - "SOME INTRODUCTORY REMARKS COMMENTS ON NEED FOR OBJECTIVE POLICY - This booklet outlines our history, for Australian Water-side Workers have over past decades been makers of history ... as an advance force in the struggle for higher wages and civilised conditions, for union rights, for peace and liberty not only for themselves but for others, wherever they be who had a righteous cause and needed help."--Page [8]