AUDIO
Interview with Wes Cameron
- Date
- 5 May 1999
- By
- Cameron, Wesley Raymond, 1928-2006
- Reference
- OHInt-0478/08
- Description
Wes Cameron was born in Belfast, Christchurch in 1928. He left school in 1941 and he discusses his first jobs and what catalysed his interest in workers' rights. Discusses work in freezing works and shearing. Discusses involvement in Labour Party and the New Zealand Workers Union and time as organiser of Canterbury, Marlborough, Nelson, Westland Freezing Workers Union. Became a full-time union organiser in 1965 and in 1972 became secretary/treasurer. Discusses work conditions of labourers and slaughtermen and the formation of the New Zealand Freezing Workers Union, to which he was elected vice president. Discusses 1964 Meat Hygiene Regulations. Explains political in-fighting in union and difficulty of developing international solidarity. Discusses women workers in the freezing works. Describes positions held in Trades Council and eight years spent on the Federation of Labour Executive. Discusses time on the Arbitration Court. Discusses leaving the trade union movement in 1985, and the change in the movement since 1984, particularly in reference to the formation of the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions. Explains the importance of class distinctions.
Interviewer(s) - Shaun Ryan
Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007235, OHC-007239, OHC-007240, OHC-007291 - OHC-007293
Quantity: 6 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 5.40 Hours and minutes Duration.
Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1801.
- Additional description
Original recordings not available for playback. Surrogate copies will be provided.
Alternative form available: Listening copies OHLC-003389 - OHCL-003394
- Use/Reproduction
- Public use may require the written permission of the copyright holder Copyright: Trade Union History Project
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted material
- Part of
- Trade union oral history project
- Format
- 6 C60 cassette(s), 1 printed abstract(s), 1 interview(s), 5.40 Hours and minutes Duration, Oral histories
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Interview with Wes Cameron, printed abstract
Date: 5 May 1999
From: Trade union oral history project
Reference: OHA-1801
Description: Interviewer(s) - Shaun Ryan Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.
Interview with Wes Cameron, tape five
Date: 5 May 1999 - 05 May 1999
From: Trade union oral history project
Reference: OHC-007239
Description: Interviewer(s) - Shaun Ryan Arrangement: Tape sequence - 5 of 6 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.
Interview with Wes Cameron, tape one
Date: 5 May 1999 - 05 May 1999
From: Trade union oral history project
Reference: OHC-007235
Description: Interviewer(s) - Shaun Ryan Arrangement: Tape sequence - 1 of 6 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.
Interview with Wes Cameron, tape two
Date: 5 May 1999 - 05 May 1999
From: Trade union oral history project
Reference: OHC-007292
Description: Interviewer(s) - Shaun Ryan Arrangement: Tape sequence - 2 of 6 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.
Interview with Wes Cameron, tape three
Date: 5 May 1999 - 05 May 1999
From: Trade union oral history project
Reference: OHC-007291
Description: Interviewer(s) - Shaun Ryan Arrangement: Tape sequence - 3 of 6 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.
Interview with Wes Cameron, tape six
Date: 5 May 1999 - 05 May 1999
From: Trade union oral history project
Reference: OHC-007240
Description: Interviewer(s) - Shaun Ryan Arrangement: Tape sequence - 6 of 6 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.
Interview with Wes Cameron, tape four
Date: 5 May 1999 - 05 May 1999
From: Trade union oral history project
Reference: OHC-007293
Description: Interviewer(s) - Shaun Ryan Arrangement: Tape sequence - 4 of 6 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.