Bernard Leunig

Work & Labor - Men - Interviews|Angliss Meat Works, Footscray - Interviews|Meat Industry|Cold War - 1945 - 1989|Communist Party|Vestey Group, 1934 - Meat Industry - Victoria|Trade Unions - Strikes|Work Experience - Biographies|Leunig Bernard , 1915 -|Seelaf, George - Trade Unions.|Social Life and Customs|Women and Work - Equal Opportunities|Migrants

Master disc 2 of 2|Content:|0 - 3 min: Marriage in 1941 to Jean. Influence of mother's union . support. Meeting Jane at Angliss's.|3 - 6 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.|6 - 9 mins : Family political discussions. Communist party dissension in Footscray and moving across the Braybrook.|9 - 12 mins : Leaving the party in the late 60's.|12 - 15 mins : The effect of his living and working life at Angliss. Maintaing contact with Angliss employees post -Angliss employment.|15 - 18 mins : Union invlovement in subsequent employment. Gilbertson's strike. Union delegate at Gilbertson's.|18 - 21 mins : Empowering the workers at Gilbertson's.|21 - 24 mins : Contracting TB in 1971 and union retirement. Involvement in the Vietnam War demonstrations.|24 - 27 : Raising funds for Hardy during court proceedings. Surprising Communist Party members.|27 - 30 mins : Employment and union conditions pre-cold war. The origins of the 6 month foundry and steel workers strike.|30 - 33 mins : National effect of the strike. Metal Trade Unions blueprint on future employment policies.|33 - 36 mins : Union strength. Effect of the rise of the middle class on the unions.|36 - 39 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.|39 - 42 mins : Women and work.|42 - 45 mins : Loss of revolutionary spirit in society.

Sound Disc 2

sound disc ( 48 mins) :digital, stereo ;4 3/4 in.

Chris Healy

Melbourne's Living Museum of the West Inc.

Melbourne (Vic.)

Sound Recording

130104581

VMLMW

1984