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Various documents relating to Ted Roach's position as Assistant General Secretary of the Waterside Workers' Federation; correspondence, pamphlets, reports and newspaper cuttings re Dalfram dispute, Wollongong beer strike and Roach’s imprisonment.

Refers to the 1938 Pig iron dispute.

Refers to the Dalfram and the 1938 pig iron dispute.

Concerns a dispute over the increase in the prices for schooners, &c. in South Coast hotels.

Ted Roach was imprisoned for 38 weeks, in 1951, for publishing a cartoon in Maritime Worker critical of a Federal Industrial Court Judge’s ruling regarding the 1949 Coal Strike.

Discusses wharf labourers' wages and conditions.

Interview with Les Louis, a retired associate professor of history at the University of Canberra.

Also includes Ted Roach’s account of the event.

Contains reference to Communist leader Chin Peng, whom Roach had met in 1941.

Completed article appears in: Brief, v.22, no.6, July 1995, p.23-30 (ISSN: 0312-5831).