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Brotherhood of BROTHERHOOD St Laurence and Community Aid Abroad of S! LAURENCE Heiping Peopte David Scott Buitd Better Iives He Got Things Done A memoir of Gerard Kennedy Tucker, Angiican priest, founder of the Brotherhood of BROTHERHOOD st Laurence and Community Aid Abroad of S! LAURENCE Heiping peopte David Scott buitd better iives He got things done a memoir of Gerard Kennedy Tucker, Angiican priest, founder of The Brotherhood of St Laurence and Community Aid Abroad David Scott 'Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord shalt enter the kingdom of heaven but he that doeth the wilt of my Father' Matthew 7:21. First published in November 2000 by the Brotherhood of St Laurence 67 Brunswick Street Fitzroy VIC 3065 Telephone (03) 9483 1183 www.bsl.org.au Scott, David He got things done: a memoir of Gerard Kennedy Tucker, Anglican Priest, founder of The Brotherhood of St Laurence and Community Aid Abroad ISBN 1-876250-40-2 @ Brotherhood of St Laurence, 2000 This book is copyright. Apart from fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism, or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Enquiries should be addressed to the publisher. C o f e /? f s Introduction 1 Early life 7 After the war 15 A personal reflection 21 Notes 33 //7ff0(y;vCf/0/7 In the early light at 6.30 am on 7 November 1944, two Anglican priests, Gerard Kennedy Tucker and Frank Coaldrake, and welfare officer Tony Bishop occupied the verandah of a house in St James Road in the Melbourne suburb of Armadale. They would remain, they said, until the sub-tenant vacated to allow the ill, 85-year-old owner to spend her last days in her own home. The legal position of sub-tenants was unclear under Commonwealth wartime tenancy regulations. The sub-tenant, a young man, had resisted repeated requests to allow the owner possession of her home. The angry tenant tried bullying, and a bewildered constable persuasion, but the squatters remained. After the first edition of the afternoon //&/<?%/ crowds of people drifted along the street to stare over the fence and ask questions. At midnight a reporter making her final call saw the besiegers huddled on the windswept verandah, Tucker on a bridge chair wrapped in a rug. In the morning the party shaved by turns at a small hand mirror and breakfasted from food and thermos tea brought by sympathisers. A police patrol drove slowly past as Tucker said Morning Prayer at 7 am. Tucker's secretary, Shirley Abraham, 1 made a makeshift tabie of a briefcase across her knees to take dictation. Teiegrams were sent to the Prime Minister John Curtin, Opposition Leader Robert Menzies, the State Premier Albert Dunstan and Opposition Leader John Cain. Commonweaith Security Officers and men from the Price Branch questioned the verandah sitters. ^ The baker and milkman arrived with orders, mail was deiivered but an application for a tetephone was refused, it was rumoured that some members of the RSL were pianning to hose the sitters off the verandah, unaware that Tucker, as a Chaplain in the front tines in France, had officiated at the buriai services of more than 800 A ustrian soldiers. Frail, 60-year-old Tucker was an early casualty but Coaldrake and Bishop maintained the siege for 37 days. It ended when Tucker decided he would enter the house and be arrested to break the impasse. He would refuse to pay any fine and if necessary go to prison. He wrote to the tenant describing the action he would take unless the key was given up within 24 hours. The key arrived and soon after Mrs Thompson was sitting with the Brotherhood 'task force' enjoying a cup of tea in her kitchen. At the centre of the dispute was the Landlord and Tenant Act and wartime emergency regulations, described by Chief Justice Sir Frederick Mann as a legal 'hotch potch'. Before resorting to the 'verandah vigil' Tucker and Coaldrake explored every legal and political avenue, including meetings with the sympathetic local MP, Harold Holt, to find a way for Mrs Thompson to reclaim her home. Two months earlier Coaldrake and Bishop had barricaded themselves inside a house in King William Street Fitzroy to prevent the eviction of the de Campo parents and their seven children. Coaldrake, in clerical attire, explained to reporters that the Brotherhood was resisting in order to draw attention to the injustice 2 of eviction. Hundreds of other famiiies faced simiiar situations uniess the law was changed. There was brief and spirited action when five uniformed poiice and four detectives stormed the King Wiiiiam Street property. The poiice burst in the window barricades and kicked in the nailed up front door. Bishop and Coaidrake, trying to stop them, were pushed out of the way but struggled from room to room to prevent de Campo's belongings from being taken out. Coaidrake, 'with a cut over his eye and torn clothes, was dragged out of the kitchen but clung to the stairway banister, until a member of the raiding party, resorting to a childhood trick, tickled him under the arms and he let go'.^ The de Campos, who had been paying the sub-tenant three times the rent the owner received, were evicted but the laws were later changed. The 'de Campo' case and the 'verandah vigil' made newspaper headlines around Australia and earned the Brotherhood praise and condemnation. The Melbourne was scathing. 'Whatever might be the defects of the Landlord and Tenant Regulations there are more seemly and effective ways of drawing attention to them than by antics reminiscent of the old- time suffragettes. It is not for trespassers, however well meaning, to constitute themselves arbiters of who shall live where.' Tucker explained his motives in letters, leaflets and his weekly radio programs. We could have turned away the widow in her affliction, uttered unctuous words of sorrow that the law was against her... but we chose, for better or worse to stay by her. We have broken the law to appeal to public 3 opinion . in so far as the pubiicity has been turned on ourseives we have become notorious 'stunters' and we are ashamed of it. But in so far as the publicity passes through us on to the iniquity we wouid ciear away, we wilt succeed in our appeal to the public. 7?7<5^gave him a column in which to explain his actions. Heading it 'Why I Am Breaking The Law', he wrote: I did not just hop out of bed one morning a week ago and come here for some excitement and notoriety. I and my colleagues came only after a most painstaking investigation and careful consideration following ten years of work trying to improve housing conditions but alt the time frustrated by out of date housing taws. The press has naturally enough sifted out the 'news', focussed the limelight on the picturesque and spared readers the boredom of legal argument, theological justification and political wrangling. The defence of the de Campos and Mrs Thompson were highly political acts at variance with the non-political role of the Churches. They raised questions of social justice when the main concerns of the Churches were Sunday observance, gambling and alcohol. Tucker was tolerant of these personal 'sins' but angry about the collective immorality that tolerated slums, unemployment, exploitation and inadequate education, health and welfare services. 4 Sixty years later at the end of a century of unprecedented weaith generation, more than a million A u stria n s and their dependents are suffering the effects of unemployment, a quarter of a million families are on public housing iists, an increasing number of peopte are abusing drugs and there is an ever-widening gap between rich and poor. Does Tucker's outrage, his totat identification with causes, his wiilingness to break the law and be criticised, offer any iessons for beleaguered social activists at the beginning of the twenty first century? How did he found two of Austraiia's most influentiai organisations, the Brotherhood of St Laurence and Community Aid Abroad that still work to his principles of 'demonstrating on a smalt scale what needs to be done on a large scale', 'putting a fence at the top of the cliff instead of an ambulance at the bottom' and 'arousing the conscience of the community'? 5 6 F a r / / / /' / e Gerard Tucker was born in 1885 in the vicarage of Christ Church South Yarra, a prosperous Melbourne suburb where his father Canon Horace Tucker was vicar for 28 years. Gerard enjoyed a happy childhood with three sisters and two brothers in a rambling vicarage set between spacious Fawkner Park and the grand, bluestone Church where Anglican members of Melbourne's political, professional and commercial establishment worshipped.^ His grandfather, his father, the First World War and a deeply held Christian faith shaped his life. His clergyman grandfather, Joseph Kidger Tucker, came to Australia at the age of 43 as the first Australasian agent of the British and Foreign Bible Society. For the next eight years Joseph 'became an absentee husband and father to his wife and eight children as he crisscrossed the continent galvanising the faithful into action through his fund raising and bible selling campaigns'. In his first 18 months Joseph Kidger Tucker covered more than 20,000 kilometres by boat, coach, jinker and horseback as he organised more than 100 meetings of auxiliaries and branches in north and east Victoria. He distributed more Bibles during eight 7 years than in the previous 40 and was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity by the Archbishop of Canterbury. After several years as Archdeacon of Beechworth, a parish of 400,000 hectares and responsibiiities as archdeacon for ait of northeastern Victoria, he retired to live with his son and his famiiy in the Christ Church vicarage.
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