Bernard Leunig

Work & Labor - Men - Interviews|Angliss Meat Works, Footscray - Description|Meat Industry|Communist Party|Work Experience - Biographies

Content.|0 - 3 min:1933 strike continued and the union movement effect and the definition of unionism at that sage of his working life.|3 - 6 min : As above. The importance of unions and effective administration.|6 - 9 mins : Post-strike employment as an apprentice. Post-strike union representation. Union and non-union labour within the work force and the ill-feeling it caused.|9 - 12 mins : Understanding financial circumstances of scab labour. Non-union labour joining the union movement.|12 - 15 mins : Slaughterman tally comparisons between the solo system and chain system. Production comparison of the two methods.|15 - 18 mins : Chain system production method refinement. George Seelaf's involvement in union organisation in the meat industry. Union thuggery.|18 - 21 mins : Fear and suspicion amongst employeees. Changing face of employment in the meat industry and families living on the Estate. Effect of strike on his father's employment within the meatworks.|21 - 24 mins : Father and son on either side of the Angliss fence during the strike.|24 - 27 mins : Bernard's ostracisation from Angliss employees with his 5 years involvement with the strike and later the union movement. Effect of the strike on Borthwicks. Blacklisting of organisations assisting the volunteer labour.|27 - 30 mins : The Vesteys take over in 1934. Application of the federal award.|30 - 33 mins : Changes within industrial relations within the workplace. Reasons for leaving Angliss.|33 - 36 mins : Involvement in disputes committee of the union.|36 - 39 mins : Angliss collapse.|39 - 42 mins : Working in the coldstores. Finishing at Angliss and the move to Smorgons for 9 years then Gilbertsons for 15 years. Influence of the Communist Party union members on Angliss employees in the slaughteroom.|42 - 45 mins : Courage being the union delegate and with Angliss constituents. Joining the Communist Party in the 40's.|45 - 48 mins : Reasoning behind joining the Communist Party during the recession.|48 - 51 min: Marriage in 1941 to Jean. Influence of mother's union . support. Meeting Jane at Angliss's.|51 - 54 mins : Setting up home in Maidstone. Supporting a wife and 5 children working a 70 hour week during war years. Foundry wages 3 pound 16 per week.|54 - 57 mins : Family political discussions. Communist party dissension in Footscray and moving across the Braybrook.|57 - 60 mins : Leaving the party in the late 60's.|60 - 63 mins : The effect of his living and working life at Angliss. Maintaing contact with Angliss employees post -Angliss employment.|63 - 69 mins : Union invlovement in subsequent employment. Gilbertson's strike. Union delegate at Gilbertson's.|69 - 72 mins : Empowering the workers at Gilbertson's.|72 - 75 mins : Contracting TB in 1971 and union retirement. Involvement in the Vietnam War demonstrations.|75 - 78 : Raising funds for Hardy during court proceedings. Surprising Communist Party members.|78 - 81 mins : Employment and union conditions pre-cold war. The origins of the 6 month foundry and steel workers strike.|81 - 84 mins : National effect of the strike. Metal Trade Unions blueprint on future employment policies.|84 - 87 mins : Union strength. Effect of the rise of the middle class on the unions.|87 - 90 mins : Arrest of Clarrie O'Shea and the subsequent stop-work meeting and rally at Olympic Park. Taking up the fight for equal pay for women in 1968, especially the migrant women.|90 - 93 mins : Women and work.|93 - 96 mins : Loss of revolutionary spirit in society.

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1 sound cassette (60 min.) :stereo. ; in container 11 x 7 x 1.8cm.

Chris Healy

Sound recording

130103131

VMLMW

VLMW 86.54.2

1985