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Date: 1970 - 1975

Reference: Eph-B-LABOUR-1970/1975

Description: Includes various fliers protesting about the Stabilisation of Remuneration Act (1971), General Motors wages, equal pay, the price of meat, the US takeover of the Gear Meat Company,and the following: 1970s: People's Union Food Co-op. Information leaflet 1970: ASRS Otahuhu. Strike bulletin 2, 10 June 1970. "Support Otahuhu railwaymen [typescript flier] 1971: Society Against Repressive Legislation (SARL) re the Shipping and Seamen Bill 1971: Combined State Service Organisations. Facts about Wages Act [1971]. Green flier 1972: History of the [Borthwicks] Waingawa on the rail boning room lock out. 1972/1973 (Mimeographed sheets - 2 copies) 1972: Militant Forum. Trade Union opposition to Tory legislation in Britain. WEA Rooms Lambton Quay, 17 December [1972]. Flier 1974: New Zealand Public Service Association. The Flexible Working Hours Scheme 1974: The P.S.A. and the F.O.L.; supplementary report of the Subcommittee of the Executive Council on relations with other Unions and the New Zealand Federation of Labour. 1974: Flier about the jailing of Northern Drivers Union Secretary Bill Andersen 1974: New Zealand Printing and Related trades Industrial Union of workers. Printing trades Employers Award. Wage adjustment order 1975: Longburn lockout. [Flier issued 20 February 1975] (2 copies) 1975: Combined State Services Organisations. "Don't be hasty about your superannuation decision. From 1 April, every employee in New Zealand between the ages of 17 and 55 must be in some superannuation fund ... February 1975 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints and letterpress, sizes varying up to 330 mm.

Date: 1983

From: Lynch, James, 1947-:Collection of original cartoons by James Lynch.

By: New Zealand times (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-186-046

Description: Shows President of the Northern Drivers' Union Bill Anderson and FOL (Federation of Labour) secretary Jim Knox stuck in a tarbaby that represents the 'wage freeze'. Text top left reads 'Den Brer Andersen hit de tar baby wid de $20 PW punch...' Behind a bush Prime Minister Rob Muldoon hides and chuckles. The tarbaby features in the Uncle Remus Brer Rabbit stories. Context: The unions were making little headway against the wage freeze. Bill Andersen and Jim Knox are depicted. (Context note by cartoonist) Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and letratone on paper, 230 x 300 mm

Date: 17 Nov 1976, 28 Aug 1977 - 1988

From: Douglas Crosado Oral History Collection

By: Mitchell, John James, 1907-1990

Reference: OHInt-0219-01

Description: John James (Johnny) Mitchell born 1907. Recalls settling in New Zealand in 1930. Gives a detailed account of his life and backgrounds his involvement in the trade union movement, principally the New Zealand Waterfront Workers' Union, the Seamen's Union, and with the Communist Party and, to a lesser extent, the Socialist Unity Party. Talks in detail about Finton Patrick Walsh, M J Savage, Jock Barnes, and Alec Drennan. Backgrounds events leading to watersiders' wage campaign and talks about the role of the Waterfront Commission. Refers to record of every person who was employed as a watersider from the day the scab union was formed up until 1954. Mentions procedures used in employing labour at Auckland Waterfront Bureau. Other personalities mentioned include: Bill Andersen, Jim Larkin, Jim Roberts, Tommy Martin (Lyttelton), Bill Clark (Dunedin), Frank Trainer, Harry Williams, Paddy McCahn, George Godfrey and the socialist group, Doug Gibson, Colin Smith and Fred Sullivan. Talks about his involvement with Freeman's Bay community. Venue - Auckland Interviewer(s) - Doug Crosado, Ray Grover, Bert Roth Venue - Takutai Street, Parnell, Auckland Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-003999-004037 Quantity: 47 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 38 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-0678 (no abstract for tapes 43 - 47). Search dates: 1976 - 1988 - 1977

Date: 1984

From: Lynch, James Robert, 1947- :[Digital scans of cartoons published in the New Plymouth Daily News and the New Zealand Times]

By: Taranaki daily news (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0024872

Description: Shows a series of frames of Bill Andersen and David Lange who are depicted as scapegoats. In the final frame Rob Muldoon captures the red scapegoat (Bill Andersen). Accompanying note from cartoonist states 'With an election looming the National Party again raised the spectre of "reds in unions". Muldoon's favourite scare bear was Bill Andersen President of the communist Socialist Union Party and head of the Northern Drivers union'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).