Seamen's Union of Australia - Campaigns
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Item type: ANU Archive Item , Access status: Open Access , End of 1919 Seamen's StrikeSeamen's Union of Australia; Photographer: Harry KneedoneItem type: ANU Archive Item , Access status: Open Access , Children in Franco Spain(Spanish National Commission in Defence of Children) Wallon, Henri; Risco, Manuel M.Item type: ANU Archive Item , Access status: Open Access , The Truth About Spain(Current Book Distributors) Photographer: not knownItem type: ANU Archive Item , Access status: Open Access , Know your enemy: vote LaborArtist: PlattonOrginal artwork for cartoon, published in Seamen's Journal, of Malcolm Fraser dressed as a boxer leaning on sign 'Union bashing done here'.Item type: ANU Archive Item , Access status: Open Access , SS William Macarthur crew and Seamen's Union of Australia members' demonstrate over unsafe working conditions aboard SS William MacarthurPhotographer: The Herald & Weekly Times LtdSS William Macarthur - a 2393-ton collier; built by J. Lewis and Sons of Aberdeen, Scotland, 1923; owned and operated by R W Miller and Company, ship owners, brewers and coal merchants, trading between Newcastle and Melbourne. Identified are Joe Dryburgh, Dick Darby, Dave Pawley and 'Gunner' Harrison.Item type: ANU Archive Item , Access status: Open Access , Constructing a wharf using McFarlane equipment in an unknown desert locationPhotographer: William (Bill) BirdThis conglomeration of blocks, winches etc. shows the dangerous equipment used by both seamen and wharf labourers.Item type: ANU Archive Item , Access status: Open Access , Don't buy Ampol campaign - strike to win Australian crew jobs on tankersPhotographer: not knownFrom the date of its commissioning, in 1962, until 1966, Ampol tanker P J Adams traded with a low-wage foreign crew. Eventually, after a long, bitter and tenacious campaign the Union put an Australian crew on her under Australian award and manning conditions.