Records. 1911-1988.

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Records. 1911-1988.

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Files, 1925-1986, covering various court cases such as award hearings; and registration and deregistration proceedings, including files relating to the Amalgamated Seamen and Dockers Union of Western Australia, the Coastal Dock Rivers and Harbour Works Union and other trade unions. Other subjects files relate inter alia to Aborigines, apprentices, congresses, correspondence, Barrow Island, Cheynes Beach Whaling Company. Legal documents, 1967-1969, relating to William Watson; manuscript entitled "Australia's Shipping Problem" by Rupert Lockwood; manuscript "Paddy Troy : life and times of a miltant"; minutes; notebooks, 1954-1977, of painters and dockers extra rates; pick up of labour and watchman's books; photographs of committees, demonstrations and marches; transcripts of Western Australian Arbitration Court hearings; awards and Court decisions. Tapes of three oral history interviews with Guy Passmore, Dennis Doherty and Communist trade union leader Patrick (Paddy) Laurence Troy.

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Libraries Australia

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Troy, Paddy, 1908-1978

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Communist trade union leader. Signed on as ordinary seaman on the "Eucla" in 1924 and joined the Seamen's Union. Subsequently became a member of the Coastal Dock Rivers and Harbour Works Union and was Secretary of that Union and its successors for 25 years. Retired from the Maritime Workers Union in 1973. Became Communist Party member in 1924. Imprisoned for his political beliefs in 1940. Travelled to USSR and was active in the USSR-Australia Society. Instrumental in the foundation of the Trades...

Doherty, Dennis.

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Federated Ship Painters & Dockers' Union of Australia.

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Cheynes Beach Whaling Company.

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Maritime Workers' Union of Western Australia.

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Established in 1911 as the Coastal Dock, River and Harbour Works Union. After a period of de-registration from 1952-1955, the Union emerged as the Federated Ship Painters' and Dockers' Union of Australia, Western Australia Branch. In 1971, the name of the union changed to the Maritime Workers Union. In 1987, the union amalgamated with the Seamen's Union of Australia on a federal level. From the description of Records. 1911-1988. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 221872290 ...

Passmore, Guy

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Amalgamated Seamen & Dockers' Union of Western Australia.

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Coastal Dock Rivers and Harbour Works Union.

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