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Strikes and lock-outs are central to the history of industrial struggle in Australia. From the 1856 stop-work by stone-masons which led to the first industrial eight-hour working day to recent struggles such as the MUA / Patrick dispute of 1998, strikes have been a central weapon in the industrial struggle undertaken by Australian radicals, as have been lock-outs by those the radicals confront.

See Micharl Quinlan, 'Early trade union organization in Australia: three Australian colonies' Labour and Industry( v1 n1 1987); John Irelomger et. al. Strikes (1973); D.J. Murphy (ed.), The Big Strikes (1983).

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Books

  • The Little Green Book: The Facts On Green Bans, Tomato Press, Sydney, 1974?. Image PDF Details
  • "Joe the Bear", Job Control, Workers' International Industrial Union & The Socialist Labor Party, Adelaide, 1928. Image PDF Details
  • Gollan, Robin, Radical and working class politics: a study of Eastern Australia, 1850-1910, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1960. PDF Details
  • Orr, W and Nelson, C, Coal; the struggle of the mineworkers, Central Council Miners' Federation, 1930s?. Image PDF Details

Book Sections

  • McQueen, Humphrey, 'Shoot the Bolshevik! Hang the profiteer! Recostructing Australian Capitalism, 1918-21', in Wheelright, E.L & Buckley, K (ed.), Essays in the political economy of Australian capitalism, volume 2, 1978 edn, vol. 2, Australia & New Zealand Book Company, Brookvale, 1978, pp. 185-206. Image PDF Details
  • Webb, Sidney and Beatrice, 'Extract', in Austin, A.G. (ed.), The Webbs' Australian Diary 1898, 1898. Image PDF Details

Cartoons

  • 'What they are after.', The Worker [Queensland] (Brisbane), 7 March 1891, p. 1. Image PDF Details
  • Broke, S Toney, '"Securing" free labour at Broken Hill', The Worker [Queensland] (Brisbane), 3 September, p. 1. Image PDF Details

Correspondences

  • Letter appealing for funds to support imprisoned striking miners, 1910. Image PDF Details

Films

  • Peter Gray and Garry Lane, Know Your Friends, Know Your Enemies, Narrated by Max Strong (shop steward) Location Sound by Lou Chin, Peter Gray [this copy courtesy Peter Gray], 1977. Also available at http://vimeo.com/21668006. Details

Fliers

  • Buy a Truck for the Gurindji’s, Secondary Students for Democratic Action, Melbourne, October/Novermber 1968. images PDF Details
  • Release Clarrie O'Shea, Melbourne, May 1969. images PDF Details
  • All the way with Clarrie O’Shea/ All Out!! Against Penal Clauses, Revolutionary Action Centre, Sydney, May 1969. images PDF Details

Journals

  • International, vol. 14, no. 77, Australian Section of the Fourth International. [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, July 1970. Image PDF Details
  • International, vol. 16, no. 79, Australian Section of the Fourth International. [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, September 1970. Image PDF Details

Journal Articles

  • Griffiths, Jennie Scott, 'The New South Wales "Strike."', Fellowship: a monthly magazine of undogmatic religion and social and literary criticism (Melbourne), vol. 4, no. 4, October 1917. Image PDF Details

Lectures

  • Richardson, Bill, Labour Day - Its significance and the life and times of E.J. [Edward John] Holloway, 1971. Image PDF Details

Letters

Newsletters

  • Socialist Comment, vol. II, Socialist Party of Australia (I) [This scan courtesy of the Socialist Party of Great Britain], Melbourne, June 1947. Image PDF Details
  • Socialist Comment, vol. II, Socialist Party of Australia (I) [This scan courtesy of the Socialist Party of Great Britain], Melbourne, January 1947. Image PDF Details
  • Socialist Comment, vol. II, Socialist Party of Australia (I) [This scan courtesy of the Socialist Party of Great Britain], Melbourne, February 1947. Image PDF Details
  • Socialist Comment, vol. II, Socialist Party of Australia (I) [This scan courtesy of the Socialist Party of Great Britain], Melbourne, April 1947. Image PDF Details
  • Socialist Comment, vol. 14, Socialist Party of Australia (I) [This scan courtesy of the Socialist Party of Great Britain], Melbourne, February 1948. Image PDF Details
  • Socialist Comment, vol. 5, Socialist Party of Australia (I) [This scan courtesy of the Socialist Party of Great Britain], Melbourne, April 1948. Image PDF Details

Newspapers

  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 47, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, November 27, 1915. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 48, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, December 4, 1915. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 51, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, December 25, 1915. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 53, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, January 15, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 3, no. 98, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, December 2, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 3, no. 97, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, November 18, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 3, no. 95, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, November 4, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 3, no. 93, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, October 21, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 58, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, February 19, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 57, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, February 12, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 56, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, February 5, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 54, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, January 22, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 3, no. 96, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, November 11, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 3, no. 99, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, December 9, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 55, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, January 29, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 3, no. 94, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, October 28, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 130, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, July 14, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 121, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, May 12, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 122, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, May 19, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 123, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, May 26, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 124, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, June 2, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 125, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, June 9, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 120, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, May 5, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 129, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, July 7, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 126, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, June 16, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 131, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, July 21, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 131, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, August 4, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 135, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, August 18, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: An Organ of Industrial Unionism, vol. 1, no. 1, Industrial Union Propaganda League [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, December 1, 1921. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 115, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, March 24, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 127, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, June 23, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 111, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, March 3, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 114, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, March 24, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 113, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, March 17, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 128, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, June 30, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 112, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, March 10, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 119, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, April 28, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 110, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, February 24, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 109, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, February 17, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 108, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, February 10, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 107, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, February 3, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 3, no. 106, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, January 27, 1917. image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 3, no. 105, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, January 20, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 3, no. 104, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, January 13, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 116, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, April 7, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 117, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, April 14, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 118, Industrial Workers of the World, Sydney, April 21, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: An Organ of Industrial Unionism, vol. 1, no. 3, Industrial Union Propaganda League [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, February, 1922. Image PDF Details

Newspaper Articles

  • 'The class war', The Australian Workman (Sydney), vol. 2, no. 59, 7 November 1891, p. 1. Image PDF Details
  • 'Editorial', Woman Worker, vol. 1, no. 6, Militant Women's Movement, Sydney, 7 April 1929. Details
  • 'Fascist raids, jailings, unite workers for struggle', Guardian (Melbourne), 9 July 1949. Image PDF Details
  • 'Aboriginal strikers in WA seized at revolver point, put in chains', Tribune, 1949. Transcript HTML Transcript PDF Details
  • Dyson, Edward, 'Comments', The Bull-ant (Melbourne), 18 September 1890, p. 4. Image PDF Details
  • Dyson, Edward, 'Comments', The Bull-ant (Melbourne), 16 October 1890, p. 4. Image PDF Details
  • Dyson, Edward, 'Freedom of contract', Bull-ant (Melbourne), 30 July 1891. Image PDF Details
  • Dyson, Edward, 'The Queensland revolution', The Bull-ant (Melbourne), 18 June 1891. Image PDF Details
  • Taylor, H. S., 'The Broken Hill War', The Pioneer, A. Timmann, Adelaide, 1 October 1892, p. 1. Image PDF Details

Pamphlets

  • Police thuggery in Brisbane, Central Rail Disputes Committee, Brisbane, 1948. Image PDF Details
  • We Cannot Support a War against Children, Seamens Union of Australia, Sydney, April 1967. Image PDF Details
  • Rothbury: The 50th Anniversary, NSW Northern District of the Miners Federation, Newcastle, 1979. Image PDF Details
  • The Crabb Papers, Citizens For Democracy, October 1986. Image PDF Details
  • Blake, J.D., The great coal strike of 1949, Newsletter Printery, Sydney, August 1949. Image PDF Details
  • Central Committee of the Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist), Learn from the Ford Strike, Central Committee of the Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist) [This scan courtesy of Mike Williss], 1974, 16 pp. PDF Details
  • Englart, E.C., Wharfies Still Fight for Democracy, Brisbane Branch, Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia [This copy courtesy of John Englart], Brisbane, 24 September 1945, 1 pp. images PDF Details
  • Englart, E.C., Wharfies Locked-out, Brisbane Branch, Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia [This copy courtesy John Englart], Brisbane, 25 September 1945, 1 pp. images PDF Details
  • McPhillips, Jack, Penal Powers: Menzies' Weapon Against Unions and Wages, Current Book Distributors [This scan courtesy of Mike Williss], Sydney, August, 16 pp. PDF Details
  • The Australian Building Construction Employees and Builders Labourers Federation, The Great Compo Battle, Includes foreword by N.L. Gallagher, General Secretary, A.B.C.E. and B.L.F., Melbourne, 1979, 32 pp. PDF Details

Photographs

Songs

  • Diamond, Dick, Selections from Reedy river - Cover Image, Diaphon, 1955. PDF Details
  • Diamond, Dick, Widgeegoweera Joe, 1955. MP3 Details
  • Diamond, Dick, Ballad of '91, 1955. MP3 Details
  • Diamond, Dick, Reedy lagoon, 1955. MP3 Details
  • Diamond, Dick, Banks of the Condamine, 1955. MP3 Details
  • Diamond, Dick, Old black billy, 1955. MP3 Details
  • Diamond, Dick, Selections from Reedy river - Liner Notes, 1955. PDF Details
  • Diamond, Dick, Reedy river, 1955. MP3 Details
  • Diamond, Dick, Eumerella shore, 1955. MP3 Details
  • Diamond, Dick, Click go the shears, 1955. MP3 Details
  • Dick, Diamond, Four little Johnny cakes, 1955. MP3 Details

Sound recordings

  • Lowenstein, Wendy, Interview with AC part two: side a, RR49 AC 2-1 side a. Digitised from cassette by Reason in Revolt, [Cassette recording courtesy of Martie Lowenstein]. MP3 Details
  • Lowenstein, Wendy, Interview with AC part one: side b, RR49 AC 20-6-87 1-1 side b. Recorded on 20 June, 1987. Digitised from cassette by Reason in Revolt, [Cassette recording courtesy of Martie Lowenstein]. MP3 Details
  • Lowenstein, Wendy, Interview with AC part one: side a, RR49 AC 20-6-87 1-1 side a.Recorded on 20 June, 1987. Digitised from cassette by Reason in Revolt, [Cassette recording courtesy of Martie Lowenstein]. MP3 Details
  • Lowenstein, Wendy, Interview with TC and CC side b, RR48 T and C C 1 of 2 side b. Digitised from cassette by Reason in Revolt, [Cassette recording courtesy of Martie Lowenstein]. MP3 Details
  • Lowenstein, Wendy, Interview with TC and CC side a, RR48 T and C C 1-1 side a. Digitised from cassette by Reason in Revolt, [Cassette recording courtesy of Martie Lowenstein]. MP3 Details
  • Lowenstein, Wendy, Interview with MB and HE side b, RR45 MB and HE 3 side b. Digitised from cassette by Reason in Revolt, [Cassette recording courtesy of Martie Lowenstein]. MP3 Details
  • Lowenstein, Wendy, Interview with MB and HE side a, RR45 MB and HE 3 side a. Digitised from cassette by Reason in Revolt, [Cassette recording courtesy of Martie Lowenstein]. MP3 Details
  • Lowenstein, Wendy, Interview with AC part two: side b, RR49 AC pt 2 side b. Digitised from cassette by Reason in Revolt, [Cassette recording courtesy of Martie Lowenstein]. MP3 Details

Online Resources

See also

  • McDougall, The Trend of the Ages and Other Verse [extracts], Labor Call Print, Melbourne, 1922. Image PDF Details

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