Queensland Railway Strike - Selected Events in Trade Union History - Australian Trade Union Archives (original) (raw)

From

1948
Queensland

To

1948

Functions

Strike

Summary

Workshop and running sheet tradesmen employed by the Queensland Railways Department went on strike in 1848. The reasons for the strike were over a long running dispute on how the state Arbitration Court dealt with claims. In particular how the Court failed to hear a claim lodged by the relevent unions from the previous year.

Archival resources

John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection, State Library of Queensland

• Queensland Central Rail Disputes Committee Records 1948, 1948, OM65-43; John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection, State Library of Queensland. Details

Published resources

Edited Books

• Murphy, D.J. (ed.), The Big Strikes, Queensland 1889-1965, University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, Queensland, 1983, 303 pp. Details

Journal Articles

• Cribb, Margaret, 'State in Emergency: The Queensland Railway Strike of 1948', Labour History, vol. 24, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Sydney, 1973, pp. 225-248. Details

Bruce A. Smith

Created: 14 January 2002, Last modified: 7 February 2002