Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia pamphlets and leaflets, 1953-1956
Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia pamphlets and leaflets, 1953-1956
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Date
1953-1956
Call Numbers
MLMSS 3772X
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Physical Description
Contents
1 outsize volume of textual material
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Fonds
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Scope and Contents
Contents
Pamphlets and leaflets, 1953-1956 mainly concerning elections and the strike of 1956
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Full title
Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia pamphlets and leaflets, 1953-1956
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Keyword subjects:
Wages -- Australia
Labor and laboring classes -- Australia
Industrial relations -- Australia
Description source
Information transferred from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 1 (8-668C) as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011
Contextual Information
Administrative / Biographical history
The Waterside Workers' Federation was formed in 1902 from a movement led by W. M. Hughes who became the Federation's first general president from 1907-1916. At the end of 1955 a log of claims was put before the Commonwealth Arbitration Court but was unsuccessful. The members of the Federation therefore went on strike in January-February 1956 result...
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Call Numbers
MLMSS 3772X
Record Identifier
9AL4Z2jY
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9AL4Z2jY
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Reference code
918581
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