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JACK Mccullough
JACK McCULLOUGH: WORKERS' REPRESENTATIVE ON THE ARBITRATION COURT A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in History in the University of Canterbury by Melanie Nolan University of Canterbury 1985 J) 630.~, i /\6 .f\1' '/ 8 8 CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE Contents i List of illustrations ii Abbreviations iv Abstract v Pref ace vii I McCULLOUGH's PATH TO THE ARBITRATION COURT, 1860-1907 1 II McCULLOUGH'S FACTION AND THE ARBITRATION COURT, 1908-1909 47 III McCULLOUGH AND UNION FACTIONALISM, 1909-1913 93 IV AN ARBITRATIONIST DURING THE WAR-TIME EPOCH, 1914-1921 147 v LIFE AFTER THE COURT, 1922-1947 199 VI CONCLUSION 212 Bibliography 222 ii LIST QF ILLUSTRATIONS between pages Jack McCullough,c 1920 (Kathleen Loveridge) Frontispiece Jack and Margaret McCullough and family, 1892 (Kathleen Loveridge) 5-6 Jack McCullough, his father, sisters and brother, 1904 (Sophia Ray) 5-6 Trades and Labour Councils' Conference delegates, 1900 (University of Canterbury Archives) 23-24 Trades and Labour Councils.' Conference delegates, 1903 (University of Canterbury Archives) 23-24 Canterbury Trades and Labour Council's Labour Day Committee, 1904 (Weekly Pre~s, 19 October 1904, Canterbury Museum Library) 35-36 Political Labour League of New Zealand's C0n£erence delegates, 1905 (Weekly Press, 10 May.196'5,C.iriterbury Museum Library) 35-36 Robert Slater, Workers' Representative on the Arbitration Court, 1906-1907 (University of Canterbury Archives) 39-40 Trades and Labour Councils' Conference delegates, 1907 (Canterbury -
Developing a Balanced View of Blackball '08 from a Wider Range Of
‘The View from Over the Hill’: Developing a Balanced View of Blackball ’08 from a Wider Range of Perspectives1 MELANIE NoLAN On 26 February 1908 Walter Leitch, the mine manager of a small private West Coast mine employing about 160 workers, dismissed seven miners, all members of the recently formed Blackball branch of the Socialist Party. The miners had been agitating for some time for an eight hour ‘bank to bank’ day, that is for overtime to be paid if a miner worked longer than eight hours from the time he entered a mine to the time he left the mine.2 Tensions had been inflamed by a second local union demand for half an hour rather than fifteen minutes for lunch or crib. The Blackball Miners’ Industrial Union of Workers struck the next day when management refused to reinstate and compensate the sacked workers. The Blackball strike, famously known as the ‘crib’ or ‘tucker time’ strike, lasted 11 weeks, ending on 13 May 1908 when the Blackball Coal Mining Company (Limited) reinstated the men and the mealtime was increased to thirty minutes.3 The Blackball strike in 1908 focused national attention on the arbitration system. Conservatives were enraged by the apparent victory of the miners in the ‘Blackball affair’.4 The Arbitration Court of New Zealand fined the miners’ union £75 for striking in defiance of the Arbitration Act. The union had no assets and so each miner was liable to a fine up to £10. The miners refused to pay any such fines, and an auction of confiscated miners’ goods was an embarrassing failure. -
Labour Traditions Proceedings of the 10Th National Labour History Conference
Labour Traditions Proceedings of the 10th National Labour History Conference Held at the University of Melbourne, ICT Building Carlton, 4–6 July 2007 Edited by Julie Kimber, Peter Love and Phillip Deery Australian Society for the Study of Labour History –– Melbourne CONTENTS Welcome vii Full Papers (alphabetically, by first named author) * indicates that the paper has been refereed Rights to welfare and rights to work: challenging dole bludger discourse in the 1970s Verity Archer* 1 A Campaign of Thought Direction: House Journals in Australian Industry Before 1965 Nikola Balnave* 8 Eureka’s impact on Victorian politics: the fight for Democratic Responsible Government in Victoria, 1854-71 Anne Beggs Sunter and Paul Williams* 15 On the Cusp: The Marginalisation of a Coal Mining Community Caught Between Tradition and Modernity Peta Belic* 22 How to create a tradition: the Seamen’s Union and the Great Strike of 1917 Robert Bollard* 29 The IWW in International Perspective: comparing the North American and Australasian Wobblies Verity Burgmann* 36 Rupert Lockwood abroad, 1935-38: genesis of a Cold War journalist Rowan Cahill* 44 Dr Evatt and the Petrov Affair: a reassessment in the light of new evidence Frank Cain* 50 Labor people – 1930s to 1960s Robert Corcoran 56 Asian Airlines: An Early Australian Cold War Mystery Drew Cottle and Angela Keys* 62 ASIO and the Communist Party: New Light on an Old Tradition Phillip Deery* 67 Mal Colston: The worst rat of the lot? Jacqueline Dickenson* 75 Raging against the Machine: Unions and technological -
Finally, Jack Lewis Embodied the Family Man Who Went to War
REVIEWS 247 Finally, Jack Lewis embodied the family man who went to war. Through his letters, he constructed multiple identities — as a soldier, father, husband and son. His story reflects the ways in which mobilization was varied, uneven and unpredictable. He wrote lengthy letters once a week which were composed in a range of places and sites. Lewis used storytelling to make sense of his war and, like Bob Wilson, it was the domestic and home front for which he longed. The small details of the everyday life back home crossed time and distance in ways which gave him comfort in conditions of hardship. The finest work in a field answers as well as raises significant issues. There are some further questions that the wonderful material and lively discussion in this book presents to us. The writing on emotions makes for a page-turning read, but love itself as an emotion — either as maternal love or matrimonial love — could have been further examined. The nature of the type of love letters written about here could have been conceptualized more fully and a distinction made between the different types of wartime love which is written about, lost or retrieved. The wider place of the expression of emotions in this society might have given a further context to understanding the separation of home and battlefront. Finally, what happens to love in the face of death? The type of death in war and the lack of a returned body effected patterns of love and loss, a point which may have been touched on to illuminate the specific nature of wartime emotions. -
Labour History Project | Newsletter 50
LABOUR HISTORY PROJECT | NEWSLETTER 50 LABOUR HISTORY PROJECT | NEWSLETTER 50 Contents NEWSLETTER 50 — NOVEMBER 2010 FROM THE SHOP FLOOR Introducing your guest editor — David Verran ........................................ 3 Mark Derby’s Chairs report ................................................................... 3 Recent death of Colin Hicks ................................................................... 4 The Labour History Project salutes the Chilean copper miners ..................... 5 FORTHCOMING EVENTS Globalisation and Labour in the Pacific: Re-evaluating the 1890 Maritime Strike ............................................................................. 6 Commo Bill book launch 16 December 2010 .............................................. 11 Forthcoming history of the Federation of Labour ...................................... 11 FEATURE ARTICLES Ken Douglas - a biography ..................................................................... 13 The Wellington Drivers’ Unions, a brief history to 1940 ............................. 15 How to lose a customer ......................................................................... 17 A history of central trade union organisations in New Zealand ................... 18 NEWS Sudden death of the biographer of Fintan Patrick Walsh ............................ 12 REVIEWS A history of the Nurses’ Union ............................................................... 20 Freed to Care: a review .......................................................................... 21 A brief