'Lives of Misery and Melancholy': The Rhetoric and Reality of Industrial Reform in Post-World War i Western Australia

Labour History

Volumn , Issue 73, 1997, Pages 105-122

  Oliver, Bobbie ^a  

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EID: 85072377615     PISSN: 00236942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3828/27516505     Document Type: Article

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1. Perth Chamber of Commerce Minutes volume 5, number 27, February 1917, Accession number 882A, Public Records Office, WA (hereafter PRO).
2. M. Swenarton, Homes Fit for Heroes: The Politics and Architecture of Early State Housing in Britain, Heinemann Educational Books, London, 1981, especially pp. 77 ff.
3. S. Macintyre, The Oxford History of Australia, Volume 4,1901-1942, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1986, pp. 103,193
4. M.A. Jones, The Australian Welfare State. Growth, Crisis and Change, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1983 edition, pp. 32,262.
5. Introducing a bill to regulate the timber industry in the Legislative Assembly in 1926, Minister for Works, Alexander McCallum, stated that the industry rated 'second to the mining industry, for serious and fatal accidents'. Western Australia. Parliamentary Debates ( hereafter WAPD), volume 74, pp. 1401-1402.
6. J.B. Holman found that the equivalent of 25% of WA timber workers sustained accidents serious enough to receive payments from the accident fund (WAPD, volume 70, p. 455).
7. During the period 1919 to 1928, the approximate accident rate per 100 unionists in the Fremantle Lumpers Union, ranged from 14.5 to 39.1. (See M. T?ll, 'Blood on the Cargo: Cargo Handling and Working Conditions on the Waterfront at Fremantle, 1900-1939', Labour History, number 52, May 1987, p. 24).
8. J.H. Grainger, Patriotisms. Britain: 1900-1939, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1986, pp. 317-318.
9. M. Quinlan & P. Bohle, Managing Occupational Health and Safety in Australia, a multidisciplinary approach, Macmillan, Melbourne, 1991, pp. 50-51.
10. Quinlan & Bohle, p. 37.
11. M. Greenwood and H.M. Woods (1919) 'Report on the incidence of industrial accidents upon individuals with special reference to multiple accidents' cited in Quinlan & Bohle, p. 51.
12. Victorian Chamber of Manufactures to Perth Chamber of Commerce, n.d., tabled in Perth Chamber of Commerce Minutes, 19 August 1924.
13. Perth Chamber of Commerce Minutes, 29 August 1924.
14. The philosophy of 'Australia Unlimited' is discussed in Macintyre, Oxford History of Australia, pp. 198-221.
15. WA Pastoralist and Grazier, volume 1, number 1,26 January 1925, pp. 14,45.
16. WA Pastoralist and Grazier, volume 1, numbers 1 and 2.
17. M. Quinlan, The Industrial Relations of Occupational Health and Safety' in M. Quinlan (ed.), Work and Health, the Origins, Management and Regulations of Occupational Illness, Macmillan, Melbourne, 1993, pp. 143-8.
18. B.K. de Garis, 'Self-Government and Political Parties' in C.T. Stannage, general ed, A New History of Western Australia, UWA Press, Nedlands, 1981, p. 343
19. R. Gollan, Radical and Working Class Politics; A Study of Eastern Australia 1850-1910, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, p. 159.
20. E. Russell, A History of the Law in Western Australia and its Development from 1829 to 1979, revised edition 1980, ed. EM. Robinson and P.W. Nichols, UWA Press, Nedlands, 1980, p. 424.
21. D. Black, The era of Labor ascendancy, 1924-1947' in C.T. Stannage (general editor) A New History of Western Australia, UWA Press Nedlands, 1981, p. 413.
22. Gina Cass, Workers' benefit or employers' burden:? Workers' compensation in New South Wales 1880 1926, University of NSW Press, Kensington, 1983, p. 86.
23. The Amalgamated Timber Workers' Union (Coastal District) of Western Australia, Report and Balance Sheet with statement of receipts and expenditure, for the half year ending June 30th 1911, pp. 1,3.
24. WAPD, volume 70, pp. 449 ff, J.B. Holman, Member for Forrest, speech in the WA Legislative Assembly, 20 August 1924.
25. Statistical Register of Western Australia, 1923-24 and 1926-27.
26. C.T. Stannage, The People of Perth. A social history of Western Australia's capital city, Perth City Council, Perth, 1979, p. 229.
27. Much of the following information is gained from J.B. Holman's speech to the WA Legislative Assembly.
28. WAPD, vol. 74,1482-1483, May Holman, Member for Forrest, speech in the WA Legislative Assembly, 19 October 1926. Extracts from May Holman's speech are reproduced in J. Watson, ed., We Hold Up Half the Sky. The Voices of Western Australian ALP Women in Parliament, Australian Labor Party, Perth, 1994, pp. 16-28.
29. WAPD, vol. 70,456, John Holman's speech.
30. Jenny Mills, The Timber People. A history of Bunnings Limited, Bunnings Ltd, Perth, 1986, p. 84.
31. Victoria. Year Book 1924/25, p. 205.
32. Cited by A. McCallum, Minister for Works, WAPD, vol. 74,1402.
33. J. Carter, Bassendean. A Social History 1829-1979, Town of Bassendean, Perth, 1986, pp. 155-7.
34. The working conditions of the Fremantle lumpers between 1900 and 1939 have been described by Tull, 'Blood on the Cargo', pp. 15-29.
35. Metropolitan District Council Minutes volume 3,1 May 1919, PRO Accession number 1319A,. See also PRO Accession number 1573A, ALF State Executive (SE) Minutes volume 2,17 September 1917.
36. B. Oliver, War and Peace in Western Australia. The social and political impact of the Great War 1914-1926, Nedlands, UWA Press, 1995, chapter 5.
37. Fremantle Herald, 10 and 17 October 1919.
38. The events of 'Bloody Sunda/ as it became known are detailed in B. Oliver, War and Peace in Western Australia, UWA Press, Nedlands, 1995, chapter 5.
39. B.K. de Garis, 'An Incident at Fremantle', Labour History, volume 10, May 1966,32-37.
40. Fremantle Waterside Workers (Lumpers) Accident Book, 1901-1927, Accession number N 28/317 N.G. Butlin Archives of Business and Labour (ANU) (hereafter ABL ANU). Used with permission.
41. MacKay seems to have been reluctant to state whose advice this was. He simply told Alex McCallum that he had acted 'on the advice of others'. See papers of the State Executive (SE) of the Australian Labor Federation of WA, Correspondence file number 78. PRO Accession no. 1688A.
42. S. Haynes & Co to Rowe, 30 April 1920, SE Correspondence File number 78. All correspondence relating to MacKay is from this file. 41. Fremantle Waterside Workers (Lumpers) Minute Book, 15 March 1920, ABL ANU, Accession number N28/7.
43. Leonard Walker to McCallum, 8 June 1920.
44. McCallum to MacKay, 20 May 1920.
45. McCallum to MacKay, 9 July 1920.
46. Pocket Year Book of Western Australia, 1919, p. 35.
47. McCallum to Premier, 18 August 1920; McCallum to MacKay, 18 August 1920.
48. Notes McCallum to Millington, n.d.
49. Millington to FLU members, 17 December 1920; MacKay to Renton, 6 January 1921; MacKay to McCallum, 10 January 1921 49. The following is drawn from WAPD, volume 74, pp. 1399-1403.
50. WAPD, vol. 74,1460. The following is drawn from pp. 1460 ff.
51. The Statutes of Western Australia. 17 Geo V. 1926, Perth, 1927, pp. 209-21.
52. Tull, 'Blood on the Cargo', p. 23.
53. Cited by Ralph Gore, The Western Australian Legislative Council, 1890-1970-Aspects of a House of Review', unpublished MA Thesis, UWA, 1975, p. 212.
54. J.S. Battye, Cyclopedia of Western Australia, Perth, 1912, volume I, pp. 719 ff.
55. SE Correspondence File number 152.
56. Records of the Bunbury Branch of the WWF, Minutes Book, 1924, ABL ANU Accession number E144/1/4.
57. FLU to WWF Melbourne, 21.7.28 in Waterside Workers' Federation Office Correspondence File, Butlin Archives of Business and Labour Accession number T62/11). Used with permission.
58. Tull, 'Blood on the Cargo', p. 24.
59. Fremantle Lumpers dent Book, 1936-38, pp. 28,33-34, ABL ANU Accession number N28/318.
60. D. van den Broek, The 1929 Timber Workers Strike: The role of Community and Gender, School of Industrial Relations and Organisational Behaviour, University of New South Wales Working Paper Series, volume 104, July 1995, University of NSW, Kensington, 1995.
61. Claire Williams, 'Qass, Gender and the Body: The Occupational Health and Safety Concerns of Blue Collar Workers in the South Australian Timber Industry, in Quinlan, Work and Health: p.75
62. John Weaver, Some Observations on workers in the South Western Australian Timber Industry, UWA Press, Nedlands, 1979.