It was later picked up by the Rev. Bill Hobbin, a former Methodist minister, and Stan Moran, the well-known wharfie and communist Domain orator.
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Barangaroo in the foreground, before shipping buildings were demolished In 1930 The Hungry Mile was the title of wharfie poet Ernest Antony's most famous poem, in a published collection titled The Hungry Mile and other poems. Memories of the Hungry Mile and Antony's poem became the inspiration for the Waterside Workers' Federation Film Unit 1950s film of the same name.
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With his first wife Debbie Johnston, has four surviving children. A fifth, Matt, died in 1999 from an asthma attack. After retiring from football, he moved to Brisbane in 1993, where, among other jobs, he worked as a wharfie. He stayed connected with football, however, and for a time coached the Mt Gravatt Vultures in the AFL Queensland South-East Premier League.
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Mann was born in Rockhampton, Queensland, to parents William Joseph and his wife Janet (née Low) and was educated at Mount Morgan Boys Central School. He worked at a variety of jobs including stockman, wharfie, meatworker, and cane cutter before moving to Brisbane during late years of the depression.The Speakers of the Queensland Parliament, 1957–1989 -- Australian National University. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
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On arrival in Auckland, he gained employment as a wharfie and became involved in union politics upon joining the New Zealand Socialist Party. In 1916, Fraser was involved in the foundation of the unified Labour Party. He spent one year in jail for sedition after speaking out against conscription during the First World War. In 1918, Fraser won a Wellington by- election and entered the House of Representatives.
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Born in New Zealand, Morgan emigrated to Western Samoa. He originally worked in the civil service, serving as Chief Clerk in the Treasury Department and Public Works Department, and Secretary of the Board of Trade. He later left to take over a cocoa plantation.West Samoan MLA as NZ "Wharfie" Pacific Islands Monthly, June 1955, p40 Morgan contested the 1948 general elections as an independent, but failed to be elected.Samoa's New Assembly Pacific Islands Monthly, May 1948, p7 He ran again in 1954 and was elected.
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In Australia, the informal term "wharfie" (from wharf labourer) and the formal "waterside worker", include the variety of occupations covered in other countries by words like stevedore. The term "stevedore" is also sometimes used, as in the company name Patrick Stevedores. The term "docker" is also sometimes used, however in Australia this usually refers to a harbor pilot. The Maritime Union of Australia has coverage of these workers, and fought a substantial industrial battle in the 1998 Australian waterfront dispute to prevent the contracting out of work to non- union workers.
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TVNZ reported that a rusting offshore fishing boat, involved in the deal, is tied up in a New Zealand port.NZ Herald, 18 April 2012.TV1 August 2012 A spokesperson for Ngati Mutunga, the neighbours of Ngati Tama, and cousin of Greg White, said that Ngati Tama had taken bigger risks with their money and paid the price. Greg White, who was a former freezing worker, wharfie and roofer, had set up a group of companies; Eel Enhancement Co., Original Pipe traders, Open Group, Ikatuna, and My Virtual Home.
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In another two years, at the age of 26, after unsuccessfully seeking employment in London, Fraser decided to move to New Zealand, having apparently chosen the country in the belief that it possessed a strong progressive spirit. He gained employment as a stevedore (or "wharfie") on arrival in Auckland, and became involved in union politics upon joining the New Zealand Socialist Party. Fraser worked as campaign manager for Michael Joseph Savage as the Socialist candidate for Auckland Central electorate. He was also involved in the New Zealand Federation of Labour, which he represented at Waihi during the Waihi miners' strike of 1912.
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In the 1919 he formed a double act with Jack 'Dinks' Patterson as "Dinks and Onkus" (The Two Drunks), created in the style of Stiffy and MoStuart Sayers, "Wallace, George Stevenson (1895–1960)". Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 12, Melbourne University Press, 1990, p. 365. ISSN 1833-7538 The pair danced and sang, and for someone who looked like a wharfie (with his barrel chest and short legs) Wallace was surprisingly acrobatic and light on his feet, and the public loved him for his slapstick style and everyman appeal. Turning solo, Wallace was soon snapped up by the Fuller circuit in Sydney and from there he moved to the Tivoli Theatre circuit.
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