Wellington Waterside Workers' Union

Date: 1951

By: Wellington Waterside Workers' Union

Reference: MS-Papers-0202

Description: Leaflets and bulletins, issued by the Wellington and Auckland waterside unions, the Wellington Freezing Workers Union and other groups during the 1951 waterfront dispute Source of title - Supplied Other Titles - Auckland Watersiders' Information Bulletin Other Titles - Wellington Watersiders' Bulletin Relationship complexity - See Wellington Amalgamated Watersiders Industrial Union of Workers (MS-Group-0612) for related material Quantity: 15 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript, printed matter Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1951

From: [Various cartoonists including Sir Gordon Minhinnick 1902-1992] :[Newspaper clippings of cartoons from New Zealand newspapers. 15 December 1948 to 5 September 1972.]

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; Auckland Herald (Newspaper)

Reference: E-549-q-03-055

Description: Shows the leader of the watersiders' strike, who twirls his baton, and notices that the rest of the band has turned right instead of left, and is playing the "Back to work quickstep". This refers to the fact that the Wellington Waterside Silver Band was set to break its association with the deregulated Wellington Waterside Workers' Union. Published in the Auckland herald on 3 April 1951. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) newspaper clipping. Physical Description: Newspaper clipping 140 x 215 mm.

Date: 1962

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

Reference: B-137-511

Description: Three men stand on the wharf near a ship called the 'African Reefer' and sing a protest song The men represent the 'Watersiders', the 'F.O.L. and the 'Seamen'. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink and crayon on card, 280 x 380mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1904, 1913

From: Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994: Collected papers, personal papers, photographs and ephemera

Reference: 94-106-79/17

Description: Originally belonging to L Glover and J Harding Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: Oct-Nov 1913

From: New Zealand Shipowners' Federation: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-11367-191

Description: Minutes of a committee set up by Wellington members of the Shipowners' Association [sic] to counter the activities of the Waterside Workers Union during the strike of 1913. Includes records of meetings with Union representatives, farmers' representatives and with the government, the employers' manifesto, arrangements to counter strike action, discussions over the problem of coal supplies and railways, proposals to form a Wellington Citizens' Defence Committee and the organisation of mounted special police and their deployment Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1922

Reference: MSY-4100

Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s) (296 pages). Provenance: Union Steam Ship Company

Date: 1951

From: Collins, Frank, d ca 1994 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8955-09

Description: Information bulletins issued by the Action Committee, Wellington Waterside Workers' Union during the industrial dispute with employers Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1919-1923

From: Walsh, Fintan Patrick, 1894-1963 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8783-5

Description: Includes certificate of discharge from SS Waihemo (1924) and SS Stafford (1919), identity card, with photograph (1919); also one letter to F P Touhy (`Chum') from `Jack' (1923), Wellington Waterside Workers' Death Benefit Fund ticket (1920), and note allowing `P F' Walsh on board the SS Marama (1923). Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1916

From: New Zealand Federation of Labour : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-4100-50/5/1

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1939

From: Coates, Joseph Gordon, 1878-1943 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1785-201

Description: Identified correspondents entered in the Name field; also includes letter from Donald B [?] Rowe, Kopane, re the Rongotea committee Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1910 - 1919

Reference: Eph-A-LABOUR-1910/1919

Description: Includes: 1910s: Auckland Commercial Travellers' and Warehousemen's Association and Club. Small wallet of members' tickets 1911: Otago Grocers' Assistants' Union. Trade lectures [Abstracts of lectures for 1911] 1912: The Waihi strike; the Waihi Engine-drivers' Defence Fund. [Letter]. Auckland, 17 August 1912. 1913: Our appeal, no. 4. Issued daily by the Watersiders. "Worker" Print. 10,000/10/13 - 492. 1918: United Federation of Labour. [Letter dated may 13 1918, advising of meeting to discuss Industrial Conscription. 5 July 1918] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints and letterpress, sizes varying up to 250 mm.

Date: 1950 - 1959

Reference: Eph-B-LABOUR-1950s

Description: Includes: 1951: Ephemera relating to the Waterfront strike or lockout, March - May 1951. This includes fliers addressed to wives and mothers of Wellington Waterside Workers, Combined Women's Committee information bulletins, Mangakino union news (27 March 1951) Also includes a circular letter to members of the Wellington and Taranaki Clothing and related Trades Industrial Union of Workers, 20 July 1951. 1952: New Zealand Public service Association. Ephemera relating to an appeal for a 100 pound salary increase 1953: Wages and prices; organisations issue joint statement (Pink flier. 2 copies) 1954: NZ Public Service Association. In three years - no progress on superannuation and the cost of living! 1955: New Zealand Federation of Labour. Remit paper for the eighteenth annual conference to be held in Trades Hall, Wellington, commencing Tuesday 10th May 1955 (2 copies) 1956: Public Service Association. Who wins in - The Parker case? [re pay equity. 1956] 1959: National Council of Federation of Labour endorses appeal. 19 December 1959. Flier Quantity: 2 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints and letterpress, sizes varying up to 330 mm.

Date: 1974

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-1130

Description: All frames show a huge crowd of members of various trade unions, and onlookers, at a protest during a 24 hour work stoppage called by the Trades Council. It affected journalists, printers, bus drivers, hotel workers, boilermakers, drivers, seamen and waterside workers. Various placards and flags read ""Wellington Teachers College Students Association;" "Take out the dagger Kirk; "Defend right to organise trade unionism;" and "Waterside Workers' Union;" and "Trade unions defend democracy. Support unions against injunctions." Views were taken outside Parliament. [Information from internet: ]. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: [ca 1913]

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/2-048931-G

Description: Strikers and sympathisers of the 1913 Waterfront dispute marching along Mansfield street to Newtown Park, Wellington. A Wellington Waterside Workers' Union banner is visible. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1913

From: [Waterside Workers' strike. Bound collection of pamphlets, newspaper articles and fliers. 1913].

By: New Zealand Worker Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: PUBL-0062-03

Description: Arrangement of text. Probably held on 13 November 1913. Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 13/11/13 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on flier.. Physical Description: Letterpress on green sheet, 213 x 140 mm.

Date: 1913

From: [Waterside Workers' strike. Bound collection of pamphlets, newspaper articles and fliers. 1913].

By: New Zealand Worker Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: PUBL-0062-02

Description: Arrangement of text. Probably held on 9 November 1913. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on flier.. Physical Description: Letterpress on pink sheet, 213 x 140 mm.

Date: 1913

From: [Waterside Workers' strike. Bound collection of pamphlets, newspaper articles and fliers. 1913].

By: Watkins, Tyler & Tolan Ltd

Reference: PUBL-0062-04

Description: Arrangement of text. Original in bound volume at NZ&P Pam 1913 WAT. Extended Title - From Waterside workers' strike 1913, bound booklet of fliers. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on flier.. Physical Description: Letterpress on pink sheet, 213 x 140 mm.

Date: 1913

From: [Waterside Workers' strike. Bound collection of pamphlets, newspaper articles and fliers. 1913].

By: New Zealand Worker Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: PUBL-0062-05

Description: Arrangement of text. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on flier.. Physical Description: Letterpress on pink sheet, 213 x 140 mm.

Date: 1976

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-135-141

Description: This single scene cartoon shows two men outside the Waterside Workers' Union office on the Wellington waterfront looking at the list of strikes due to take place Exhibited in 'Lodge Laughs at Wellington: Celebrating the life and works of cartoonist Nevile Lodge' exhibition of cartoons By Nevile Lodge on Wellington topics over the period 1943-1988, curated by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive for the Wellington Museum of City and Sea, and exhibited at the Museum from 25 May to August 2004. Published in book 'Lodge Laughs at Wellington' by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive, 2004. Extended Title - Strikes - This week to protest at Government Wage Freeze - Next week to protest at Government policy on nuclear ships - The week after to protest again at Government dropping the Rangatira Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon, 305 x 380 mm Processing information: 1976 cartoon filed with those from 1977

Date: 1976

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 35mm-00026-c-F

Description: Protest march including Wellington Waterside Workers Union members, Wellington, 1976. Shows a group of male demonstrators holding the Union's banner, along with signs reading: "Govt must hold prices" and "Restore free bargaining". Photograph taken by an unidentified photographer for the Evening Post newspaper. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative