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Stevedores -- New Zealand -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Jock Barnes typescript of Never a white flag.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-Vault 101
Scope and Contents

Collection contains a photocopy of the typescript for Jock Barnes' autobiography which details Barnes' political beliefs and long involvement in Union activity including the 1951waterfront strike.

Dates: 1987

Wilfred (Bill) McAra collection on industrial relations on the New Zealand waterfront.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-D-5
Scope and Contents The papers in this collection cover the period 1946 to 1953 and concern industrial relations on the waterfront in the years leading up to the 1951 waterfront dispute, the dispute itself, and the immediate aftermath. The collection includes minutes, correspondence, notes, reports, pamphlets and clippings. In 1946, the New Zealand Waterside Workers Industrial Union of Workers approached the Waterfront Industry Commission seeking better working conditions, including guaranteed minimum pay....
Dates: 1946 - 1953