151 Days: History of the Great Waterfront Lockout and Supporting Strikes, February 15-July 15, 1951"Here is the story of the five long months of 1951 when the iron curtain of emergency regulations covered New Zealand. Here is a stirring history of the struggles of watersiders, seamen, miners, freezing workers and drivers in their greatest freedom fight and a fearless exposure of scabrous work in high places and low. Here is a book to stand beside the "Tragic story of Waihi" as a New Zealand labour classic. The writer, as editor of "The Transport Worker", was in a unique position to follow the course of the struggle, he attended meetings of the national strike committee ... and was an eye-witness of many of the incidents he vividly describes -- from the Cuba Street batoning to Walter Nash with the detectives on Parliament steps ..."--Inside front cover. |
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