Union Campaigns
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ANU Archive Item Open Access End of 1919 Seamen's StrikeSeamen's Union of Australia; Photographer: Harry KneedoneANU Archive Item Open Access Children in Franco Spain(Spanish National Commission in Defence of Children) Wallon, Henri; Risco, Manuel M.ANU Archive Item Open Access The Truth About Spain(Current Book Distributors) Photographer: not knownANU Archive Item 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'.ANU Archive Item 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.ANU Archive Item 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.ANU Archive Item 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.