Notices

Golf day, A turbulent decade, Shipping Out, Workers' Radio, Worker Ownership, Maritime Day

Golf day

The Terry Cahill Golf Day will be held at the Toronto Golf Club, Sydney, Friday, October 21

Tee off commences at 7 am with a function to follow

This year we are raising funds for Bill Langlois.

A Turbulent Decade:

Social Protest Movements and the Labour Movement, 1965-1975 Edited by Beverley Symons and Rowan Cahill

During the turbulent decade 1965-1975, a cultural revolution took place in Australia. The future was seeded with movements and ideas that changed Australian society and culture, and enlarged the space for democratic action. In A Turbulent Decade: Social Protest Movements and the Labour Movement, 1965-1975, edited by Beverley Symons and Rowan Cahill, veterans of the period recall and reflect upon the decade, often candidly, at times vulnerably so. The focus is Sydney and New South Wales, and a great deal that is new is added to the public record. The book covers the Anti-Vietnam War and Anti-Conscription Movements, the Student, New Left and Counter Culture Movements, Women's Liberation, Gay and Lesbian Rights, Aboriginal Land Rights and Civil Rights, the Anti-Apartheid Movement, the Trade Union Movement, and the Australian Labor Party.

Contributors are Brian Aarons, Anthony Ashbolt, Wendy Bacon, Suzanne Bellamy, Lester Bostock, Charlie Bowers, Meredith Burgmann, Rowan Cahill, Jack Cambourn, Bruce Childs, Ken Davis, Diane Fieldes, Dulcie Flower, Graham Freudenberg, Hall Greenland, Bob Gould, Noreen Hewett, Suzanne Jamieson, Craig Johnston, Gillian Leahy, Greg Mallory, Race Mathews, Audrey McDonald, Tom McDonald, Peter McGregor, Jack Mundey, John Myrtle, Sue Tracey, Shane Ostenfeld, Joe Palmada, John Percy, Robyn Plaister, Mavis Robertson, Lyndall Ryan, Joyce Stevens, Paul True, Barrie Unsworth, Sue Wills.

For copies contact -Sydney Branch, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History (ASSLH). PO Box 1027 Newtown NSW 2042

Shipping Out:

The Story of America's Women Seafarer. A television documentary by Maria Brooks is a full length documentary for television telling the little known history of women and seafarering in America. It stars women who work on container ships, bulk cargo carriers and tankers, as well as coastal tugs, barges and ferry boats. But to complete the film, needs your support. Join the production team and send a cheque to the Fund for Labor Culture and History

3252 Kemption Ave,

Oakland

CA 94611

Worker ownership

The Australian Employee Ownership Association (AEOA) has recently up-graded its web-site to provide up-to-date news on policy developments and discussion on all aspects of broad-based employee ownership in this country.

You can view this web-site at: www.aeoa.org.au .

Workers' Radio

Workers Radio Sydney is a new trade union program broadcast from 5.30 am to 9 am Monday to Friday on 88.9 FM. UnionsNSW set up the radio with the aim of informing the community about the ongoing campaign against Howard's attack on workers' rights. The MUA is a sponsor and has regular spots. Membership forms are available at the union rooms.

Maritime Day

The MUA will commemorate World Maritime Day at the National Maritime Museum in Sydney on September 29

Members are asked to assemble the eastern Side of Pyrmont Bridge at 12:30pm

Speakers are Robert Coombs - MUA Sydney Branch Secretary, John McInerney - Deputy Lord Mayor, Pat Geraghty -Former Federal Secretary Seaman's Union of Australia, Captain John Evans - 14 year old war time deckboy to Chief Executive of

Howard Smith Ltd..

This annual event was established by the UN body, the International

Maritime Organisation, to highlight the role played by the world's

merchant seafarers and their vital role in interlocking with all the

world's harbour workers keeping the cargoes moving, the trade routes

flowing and international economies buoyant.

World Maritime Day equally reflects upon the ever present peacetime

losses, and the incredible wartime casualty rates inflicted on the world's seafarers