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Campaign for pensions - veterans take a vote

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2009-07-02T02:04:06Z

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The Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia first mobilised its members in the struggle for superannuation in 1953. Federation leaders Jim Healy, Tom Nelson, 'Dutchy' Young and others led a delegation of veterans to Canberra to meet with the Minister for Labour. They demanded a fund to finance a pension for veterans - 8 pounds a week after 20 years in the industry and having reached the age of 65 - a fund financed by a levy on employers. This photograph is a still from the film 'Pensions for Veterans', the first film of the Waterside Workers' Film Unit. It was taken between March and October 1953.

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/48119
 http://digitalcollections.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/48119

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Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia

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Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia, Sydney Branch

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