Unions Urged as Tasmania Fruit Pickers Face Hard Labour
An account of fruit picking in Southern Tasmania describes brutal work conditions with 3000 claimants, low pay, and rough living. The piece critiques lack of organization, warns of class struggle missteps, and contrasts workers’ plight with political manipulation by elites and reform advocates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hobart
Derwent
Nicholk
Truit
Tasmania
Henry Jones
Tim
Rolsheyt
Missionary Misreads Labor Lines Across Nations
Tamout of work editor Coul reviews a Capitalist Press piece claiming New Zealand and Queensland Labor Parties share the same move toward socialization. The letter cites J B Mollond and Halland arguing labour aims to socialise means of production, distribution and exchange, urging missionaries to explain away Queensland misrepresentation while supporting All-Australian Union conference objectives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coul
New Zealand Labor Party
Queensland Labor Party
New Zealand
All-Australian Trade Union Congress
J. B. Mollond
5 Seoane
Manly
Objpcrive
Labor
New Zealand Party
Queensland
Wrevedisland
Stinnes
How The Editor and Labour Strikes Back
A reader attacks radical groups including I W W and anarchists, questioning how workers can be educated about capitalism as oppression. He warns of potential factory hardship and calls for clarity on anti exploitation teachings and the threat to workers’ comforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cannate
I.W.W
Queensland Labor and Waterside Scabbery Rift
A fiery critique denounces Queensland politicians union officials and Waterside Workers Federation as traitors for forming a new branch amid disputes at Innisfail and Mourilyan Harbour. The piece decries scabbery, urges unity of the working class, and calls for action within unions and Labor groups to expose and punish the alleged treachery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tach London
Dudas Iscariot
Christ
Judas Sycariot
Queensland
Australia
Lunisfail
Mourilyau Hay- Dour
Innisfail
Mourilyan Barbour
Arbitration Court
Waterside Workers” Federation
Branc
Waterside Workers' Federation
Cnn
Mourilyan
Watersides
Diatetet
Waterside Workers’ Executive
Aire
One Big Union Promised By Industrial Wage Fight
A dispersed call urges workers to unite through industrial and shop committees to form a world worker movement. It advocates shop-based control, broader union action, and a world dictatorship of workers to end wage slavery and shorten hours, promoted by the Hobart District Group of the Communist Party of Australia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claus
Ceeeed
Hobart
Communit Party of Austrailia
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mir Workers — Educational Association
Balderlagh
Jr Hs
Uley
Yewand
WBA
Uniav
Livy
Worling
Delysates
Rabel
Howry
Russia
Lw.w
Clazs Sonstigus
Maurilyan
Communist Hall
Sussex Street
Comrade Blanc
Sydney
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