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Issue No. 318 | 03 August 2006 |
Don't Bank on Costello's Oil Shocker
Interview: A Life And Death Matter Unions: Fighting Back Industrial: What Cowra Means Environment: Scrambling for Energy Security Politics: Page Turner Economics: The State of Labour International: Workers Blood For Oil History: Liberty in Spain Review: Go Roys, Make A Noise
Telstra Contractors in Bush Raid Blue Mountains Fit Through Loophole Chalkies Give WorkChoices An F Canberra Scratches WorkChoices Handicap
The Locker Room Fiction Politics
What Was He On About? Belly On Balance Help Wanted
Labor Council of NSW |
News MUA Hungry for Change
It is urging unions and supporters to petition the state government to adopt the longtime maritime monicker, the Hungry Mile. Naming submissions need to be filed with Planning Minister, Frank Sartor, by this Friday. The Hungry Mile would celebrate two centuries of maritime labour in the precinct where as many as 24,000 people were employed, prior to the advent of containerisation. The Hungry Mile has inspired film, verse, song and rebellion. It got its name during the Great Depression when men trudged from wharf to wharf in search of work, either going hungry or toiling around the clock in tough, perilous conditions on 24-hour shifts under the oppressive Bull System. The Hungry Mile became an Australian labour icon. It was the birthplace of maritime unionism. It saw solidarity protests, including bans on pre-war Japanese shipments, the Black Armada of Dutch arms during the Indonesian independence war, opposition to French and US wars in Vietnam, apartheid in South Africa, French nuclear testing, the Indonesian invasion of East Timor. It became a focal point for maritime struggles and expressions of internationalism. It was on the Hungry Mile, in 1998, that hooded goons with dogs forced workers off cranes, ships and wharves at Patrick as part of a government-employer conspiracy to replace union workers. To make submission on names for East Darling Harbour go to: http://www.newharbourheadland.com/EntryForm.cfm
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