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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?. [ | | Details... ]
  • "Joe the Bear", Job Control, Workers' International Industrial Union & The Socialist Labor Party, Adelaide, 1928. [ | | Details... ]
  • Gollan, Robin, Radical and working class politics: a study of Eastern Australia, 1850-1910, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1960. [ | Details... ]
  • Orr, W and Nelson, C, Coal; the struggle of the mineworkers, Central Council Miners' Federation, 1930s?. [ | | 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. [ | | Details... ]
  • Webb, Sidney and Beatrice, 'Extract', in Austin, A.G. (ed.), The Webbs' Australian Diary 1898, 1898. [ | | Details... ]

Cartoons

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

Correspondences

  • Letter appealing for funds to support imprisoned striking miners, 1910. [ | | Details... ]

Fliers

  • Buy a Truck for the Gurindji’s, Secondary Students for Democratic Action, Melbourne, October/Novermber 1968. [ | | Details... ]
  • Release Clarrie O'Shea, Melbourne, May 1969. [ | | Details... ]
  • All the way with Clarrie O’Shea/ All Out!! Against Penal Clauses, Revolutionary Action Centre, Sydney, May 1969. [ | | 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. [ | | Details... ]
  • International, vol. 16, no. 79, Australian Section of the Fourth International. [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, September 1970. [ | | 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. [ | | Details... ]

Lectures

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

Letters

  • Women and Children in Distress, 21 July 1919. [ | | Details... ]

Newsletters

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

Newspapers

  • 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. [ | | Details... ]
  • 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. [ | | 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. [ | | 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. [ | | 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. [ | | 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. [ | | 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. [ | | 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. [ | | 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. [ | | 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. [ | | 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. [ | | 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. [ | | 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. [ | | 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. [ | | 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. [ | | 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. [ | | 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. [ | | 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. [ | | 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. [ | | 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. [ | | 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. [ | | 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. [ | | 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. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 118, Industrial Workers of the World, Sydney, April 21, 1917. [ | | 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. [ | | 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. [ | | 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. [ | | 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. [ | | 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. [ | | 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. [ | | 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. [ | | 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. [ | | 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. [ | | 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. [ | | 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. [ | | 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. [ | | 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. [ | | 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. [ | | 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. [ | | 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. [ | | 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. [ | | 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. [ | | 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. [ | | 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. [ | | 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. [ | | 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. [ | | 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. [ | | 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. [ | | Details... ]

Newspaper Articles

  • 'The class war', The Australian Workman (Sydney), vol. 2, no. 59, 7 November 1891, p. 1. [ | | 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. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'Aboriginal strikers in WA seized at revolver point, put in chains', Tribune, 1949. [ | | Details... ]
  • Dyson, Edward, 'Comments', The Bull-ant (Melbourne), 16 October 1890, p. 4. [ | | Details... ]
  • Dyson, Edward, 'Comments', The Bull-ant (Melbourne), 18 September 1890, p. 4. [ | | Details... ]
  • Dyson, Edward, 'The Queensland revolution', The Bull-ant (Melbourne), 18 June 1891. [ | | Details... ]
  • Dyson, Edward, 'Freedom of contract', Bull-ant (Melbourne), 30 July 1891. [ | | Details... ]
  • Taylor, H. S., 'The Broken Hill War', The Pioneer, A. Timmann, Adelaide, 1 October 1892, p. 1. [ | | Details... ]

Pamphlets

  • Police thuggery in Brisbane, Central Rail Disputes Committee, Brisbane, 1948. [ | | Details... ]
  • We Cannot Support a War against Children, Seamens Union of Australia, Sydney, April 1967. [ | | Details... ]
  • Rothbury: The 50th Anniversary, NSW Northern District of the Miners Federaion, Newcastle, 1979. [ | | Details... ]
  • The Crabb Papers, Citizens For Democracy, October 1986. [ | | Details... ]
  • Blake, J.D., The great coal strike of 1949, Newsletter Printery, Sydney, August 1949. [ | | Details... ]

Songs

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

See also

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

Created: 8 November 2004, Last modified: 10 May 2005