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Ted Roach papers
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Ted Roach papers

  • AU NBAC N235
  • Deposit
  • 1941 - 1994

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.

Roach, Edward Charles

Beer strike continues

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

Going to gaol

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.