Industrial Workers of the World

http://tramconductors.net/video.php

20th anniversary of tram lockout 1990-2010

Saturday January 30th from 6pm at pub corner of Sydney Rd and Brunswick Rd called Bridie O'Reilleys - was called Sarah Sands;

Brunswick tram depot workers commemorate the 20th anniversary of the occupation of the Brunswick Depot during the 1990 lockout by the Government.

Community radio station 3CR held a "TRAMATHON" to raise $ for the locked out trammies. 3CR also had a daily update on the dispute from the depots like Brunswick at midday. Please let anyone you know who was involved in supporting the workers in their dispute, if you are new but interested you would also be welcome.

Background, see: http://tramconductors.net/video.php

http://www.iww.org.au/node/902

Melbourne Tram Dispute and Lockout January - February 1990 Anarcho-Syndicalism in Practice A pamphlet by Jura Media Publications, Sydney 1997 Distributed by Jura Books PO Box N32, Petersham North, NSW 2049, Australia

http://www.takver.com/history/tram1990.htm

PDF www.reasoninrevolt.net.au/pdf/d0430.pdf

Sparks was originally published by a group of anarcho-syndicalist transport workers in Melbourne; the first issue appearing in May 1986. It has continued but is now produced in Sydney see

http://sparksweb.110mb.com/

Roll The Union On (Lyrics: John Handcox & Lee Hays; Music based on the gospel hymn “Roll the Chariots On; song written in 1936 at a Labor School in Arkansas)

We’re gonna roll, we’re gonna roll We’re gonna roll this union on

We’re gonna roll, we’re gonna roll, We’re gonna roll this union on

And if the growers get in the way, we’re gonna roll right over them

We’re gonna roll right over them, we’re gonna roll right over them

And if the growers get in the way, we’re gonna roll right over them

We’re gonna roll this union on

Chorus

And if the cops get in the way, we’re gonna roll right over them

We’re gonna roll right over them, we’re gonna roll right over them

And if the cops get in the way, we’re gonna roll right over them

We’re gonna roll this union on

Chorus

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Vale Howard Zinn author of People's History of USA http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/01/howard_zinn_his.html