Title The hungry mile / by Tom Nelson

Published Sydney : Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia, 1957 [Sydney] : [Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia], 1957

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ADPML SPC	331.880994 Nel/Hmi		LIB USE ONLY

Description 125 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm Contents 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 Notes "Registered at the GPO, Sydney, for transmission through the post as a book"--verso pages 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] Subject Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia -- History. Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia. Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia. Sydney Branch Labor unions -- Australia -- Stevedores Labor unions -- Australia. Labor unions -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- History Labor unions -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Sydney Stevedores -- Labor unions -- Australia. Stevedores -- Labor unions -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Sydney Stevedores -- Australia. Stevedores -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- History Stevedores -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Sydney Stevedores -- Sydney SUBJECT Sydney (N.S.W.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021855 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 Author Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia. Sydney Branch LC no. nun00301696

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