Wharfies

The Yanks were like wharfies, they were the bosses, very tough, but they were good to work for, said Father Tapim, chuckling at the memory. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Antony's poems appeared in the radical press of the 1920s and 30s and his poem 'The Hungry Mile' entered the oral culture of wharfies often without any attribution to the author. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Prime Minister Menzies, particularly, was still trying to live down his nick-name: Pig Iron Bob – earned in 1938 as he frantically insisted on shipping iron from Port Kembla, Wollongong, to the Japanese war machine, over the heated objections, strikes, by left-led Australian wharfies. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Across the country, seamen, wharfies and other MUA members took part in a one minute stoppage on 7 April to commemorate the Patrick dispute, during which security guards with dogs stormed every dock in Australia run by Patrick Stevedores and sacked 2000 unionised workers and forcibly removed those on the job. ❋ Unknown (2008)

To see the Sydney wharfies tramping down the hungry mile. ❋ Unknown (2006)

In political campaigns, protests and demonstrations, especially during the tumultuous Cold War days of the 1950s and 1960s, large contingents of wharfies and seamen were dramatically, theatrically, present, identifiably so in large numbers, with union banners and placards. ❋ Unknown (2006)

John Coombs the wharfies leader proposed a new definition of World's Best Practice at the May Day rally, one that includes social responsibility such as decent health, safety and education systems, security of employment and ending child labour. ❋ Unknown (1998)

The wharfies love the song and of course it has particular interest for a whole new generation who began to turn up to the extraordinary "community pickets". ❋ Unknown (1998)

Now we have seen the wharfies trying hard to keep the peace, ❋ Unknown (1998)

So it was no surprise to find parodies of those songs dealing with the wharfies 'struggle as we approach the end of another century. ❋ Unknown (1998)

Written prior to the Federal Court and High Court decisions, it's a powerful vehicle for the basic demand of the wharfies: reinstatement. ❋ Unknown (1998)

The wharfies stopped loading any Dutch bound ships ❋ Unknown (1998)

The wharfies appear to be endowed with abilities both to send the Liberals into ❋ Unknown (1998)

I leave the last word to John Warner with a song inspired by the May Day march in Sydney while he was on his way to perform for a wharfies fund raising concert ❋ Unknown (1998)

And the wharfies held the line when they sacked the ship's crew ❋ Unknown (1998)

"World's Best Practice" is a favourite mantra of those who accuse the wharfies of indolence on the job, while "relaxed and comfortable" is what John Howard said he hoped Australians would feel if he was elected. ❋ Unknown (1998)

An amalgamation of wharfies from the old WWF (Waterside Workers Federation) and seamen from the old SUA (Seamen's Union of Australia) ❋ Unknown (1998)

The Telephone Tree appears in the wonderful oral history of the wharfies, "Under the Hook", by Tom Hills (a wharfie) and Wendy Lowenstein, originally published in 1982 but now reprinted in an expanded form to cover the ❋ Unknown (1998)

If the guy next to you is [swearing] like a wharfie he's probably a [media] [billionaire]. On the other hand, he may be a wharfie. ❋ K4DownUnder (2004)