HONOUR ROLL PAINTERS AND DOCKERS UNION QUEENSLAND BRANCH This union was theirs, and by their valor they bequeathed it in freedom to this day FSPDU Officer PAT SHANNON murdered 1972 LESLIE BATKIN murdered 1987 BILLY O'CONNOR doa 1974 RON CHAPMAN murdered 1987 JOHN WLODARCZYK murdered 1974 THOMAS MOLONEY disappeared 1990 DENNIS BAILEY murdered 1976 MARK REDDING disappeared 1990 CHARLES REEVES murdered 1978 MERV COLLINS doa 1994 NORMAN FOORDE disappeared 1979 KAY CHAMBERS doa 1995

TOUCH ONE TOUCH ALL This union was formed in 1900 to protect the interests of workers in the maritime group of industries. In 1993 the union was deregistered under S 193 of The Australian Industrial Relations Act, which requires unions with less than 10,000 members to convince the Industrial Commission that special circumstances exist that justify their continued registration. The fact that this union is the cultural and economic heritage of generations of Australians was not deemed a special circumstance by the Industrial Commissioner, while the campaign waged within the organization to increase membership was met with thuggery, violence and murder, by becoming an Associate Member you will be taking an active stand against strong arm bully boy tactics. Details of your associate membership will be presented to the Industrial Commission in petition form when the union makes application for re-registration. Application for Associate Membership* of the Federated Ship Painters and Dockers Union of Australia, Queensland Branch Oath of Fealty: This union having been formed to advance the interests of the profession to which 1 belong and fully approving of its rules and objects, 1 hereby ascribe my name as a member and declare my fealty to same. Name & Address.........................................................................................Post code.................. Date of Birth.........................Signature........................................................Date......................... *Associate membership is free, it does not carry voting rights, nor can AM's stand for office, to prevent insurgents with a separate agenda infiltrating this operation, which is exactly what occurred in the past. Upon re-registration dues will be charged at the rate of twelve dollars per year, plus two dollars per year compulsory funeral contribution. Then all associate members will be counted as financial members, and will be requested to attend meetings. Address completed forms to: The Secretary Treasurer FSPDU 4/25 Crase St, New Farm Qld 4005 Call the union on + 61 7 3358 1839, or email docker01@tpg.com.au Authorized M. Timothy Secretary. New Sign ups Ian Johnston has Forklift, Crane, Dogman, Bobcat, Front End Loader, & Excavator Tickets, and works at TJ Prest in Melbourne .. that is an impressive list of credentials, and Ian is welcome into the union, 15 October 2011. Well then in 1998, a standover man name of Johnston, attempted to coerce me in the manner of a fifty dollar payment, that was due for attending an onsite induction, at an industrial site in Brisbane! http://www.dockersunion.net/vb/showthread.php?224-Copy-718-Dockers-Union&p=333#post333 Racism and Strife at Incitec: 1998 Mincon get in touch, I had worked for them previously, on a dragline shutdown at Meandu Mine in 1997, that job they put us up at Kingaroy .. after the boss paid the bill at the motel, he tells everyone, that all the work gang had accessed the pornographic movie, on the in house TV, except one .. "stand up Martin."



This time we would be at Incitec, a plant which produces fertilizer from natural gas, the start date was Thursday, however since I was a new starter, I would be required to attend a two hour induction, at the plant training centre on the Tuesday.



The job started all right, the Mincon supervisor was Wayne Johnston, who had played centre for Carlton in the 1980's, I had only briefly met him at Meandu the previous year, and was tickled pink to be working with him.



The day we started he drove me to the car park, I had taken my tools onto the job but found they were not necessary, during the drive I told him I was a footy fan, and had been a fan of his, he said he had a great time playing footy, and that he hoped the job went well, he gave me his telephone number, and said to ring if there were any problems .. we parted with a good understanding.



Come payday, I had not been paid the two hours pay for the induction, thus at twenty five an hour I was fifty bucks down on my pay, I was at home when I discovered the discrepancy, and rang Tom the Mincon paymaster. He was drunk, ill mannered, and entirely unhelpful. At work the following day, I see Ian Baxter who started with me who attended the same induction, I asked him if he had been paid the two hours, he said that he had not, but did not wish to make an issue of it.



I ring Wayne Johnston he was full of ****, he had undergone a personality change of Jeckle and Hyde proportions, I had already checked with Incitec staff, who simply said no drama, the situation had existed from the year dot, all Mincon had to do was include the induction payment on the bill .. I tell this to Johnston, he goes off his fukken head starts...



"Who the **** do you think you are, the shop steward or something.." I tell the prick he needs to get the money .. blah blah blah, it's smoko by then, in the smoko room Ian Baxter starts up., he comes up with a bodgey Aboriginal accent .. Now, although I may appear to some Australians as European, I appear to others as aboriginal, particularly when I am heavily bearded, as I was at that time.



I am not gonna let my poor old grandpa, who died in Battery Point Hobart Town down, he assured me in 1955, that both he and me were of the Tasmanian aboriginal people, mothers father, appeared to be a mainland aboriginal from South Australia, her mother was from Scotland .. truth is that I am of mixed race, like Jesus Christ.



So there's Ian referring to my choice of western style clothing, going... 'is that a western style shirt...' just a hint of the word boy... 'you been out west b...' snorts are coming from around the table '...they got rodeos out there right...' just the start of sniggering. I would have reminded him that there are boxing tents as well, but it had gone beyond that, he was rocking back on his chair at the end of the table, and was laying hard down on good ol' me.



After Uncle Ian got to me, the school counselor told me to punch my father, I failed to, I punched the European who tried to molest me, but not my father .. he too would rock back on his chair at the table, likewise to a chorus of snorts and chuckles, abusing me, I did not want to make the same mistake here.



I rise from my seat, and belt him under his open gob with my left, following up immediately with a right to the side of his head, he is knocked off of his chair to the floor, and gets up fighting, he's half way up and I land a left to his cheekbone, providing him with a depressed fracture, and leaving a dent in his face which he will take to the grave.



There is no more fight in him, so I resume my seat to finish smoko. I get the sack of course, he doesn't .. as security are escorting me to the gate, I see the prick coming out of the canteen and belt him again. I got paid, after beating the sh*t out of a thug Johnston sent after me at work, then I got sacked - Maybe we are gettin' a little feedback here, Ian Johnston remains registered at our online forum, and he can put his side of the story! Hamish Green works on the Sydney waterfront, and on 8 September 2011 asks, "if there is anything else I need to do for associate membership?" Hamish might like to register in our online forum, at http://www.dockersunion.net/vb/, present his credentials, and tell everyone why he will be an asset to this union. Tiani Searancke is welcome aboard, the third of the Searancke brothers to join in September 2009. Jason Herbert has joined, and is welcome into the union. Tyson Searancke from Victoria, is welcome into this union. Martin Kinross from Brisbane, was a member thru the late seventies and into the eighties, and is welcome back on board. Daria has a valid email address, so his or her name will appear on the document, we intend to submit to the Industrial Commissioner, when we apply for re registration. Martin Searancke says he has a "bit of history," which has never been a reason to debar any person from membership in the past, and he is welcome into this union. Tommy has provided the necessary details, he too will be on the roll book when we apply for re registration. Constantine provided no further details, however his is a valid registration, since he has a genuine email address. Nick Carter, welcome aboard Nick wherever you might be. Les Johns from Leichhardt near Ipswich Queensland, was in the union thru the 1970's, and has rejoined with his son, Lewis Johns who is eighteen years old, and is welcome aboard. James Morton from London in the UK, James is the author of the very famous Gangland series of books, published by Sphere, and is writing a book about the P&D's. J odie Durrant from Great Yarmouth in the UK, Jodie comes from a docks background, her six brothers are all dockers in GY .. her story @ Great Yarmouth Dockers seek public support! Luke Hudson from Andamooka in South Australia, Luke is a crane driver at the nearby Olympic Dam mine, at Roxby Downs. Dean Dowden lives in Newcastle NSW, and works for a demolition company, he's welcome aboard. Belinda Hamilton-Smith is a second generation member, her father John Wlodarczyk was a member murdered in 1975. Joshua Bennetts is a rigger, in the ship building and ship repair industry, in New South Wales. New life members gazetted Colin Ball and Tracy Phillips Col was part the nucleus of workers, employed in the Brisbane ship building and repair yards, that were de unionized in 1993, he stuck with the union thru thick and thin, and still occasionally works in the industry. Tracy lost both hands, when a parcel bomb that was addressed to her husband Billy, exploded in 1969, she was a stalwart similarly thru thick and thin, after police and government sanctioned coercion, from murderous anti social scab elements, had caused a crisis in membership. Vale Comrades Barry "Shuffles" Brennan From Amanda Peters March 16, 2 010 .. My father Barry Jude Brennan, was a Painter and Docker for many years, and has recently passed away.. Barry was a widely liked, and highly regarded member since the mid 1970's, before that he was a coal miner at Box Flat near Ipswich Queensland, whence days after he had left to go to other employment, 31 July 1972, seventeen miners were killed in an underground explosion. He represented Queensland in Rugby League football, Barry's three sons Peter, Jaime, and Andrew who passed away tragically in 2009, were also dock workers .. our condolences go out to the boys, and to Amanda and the rest of Barry's family. Dave Johns Received from Les Johns 25 September 2008 ...my brother Davey Johns was a member back in the seventies, he passed away last month of cancer.. Dave with his two brothers Gary and Les, and their late father Doug, were a familiar sight working on the Brisbane docks, during the 1970's, recalling that Dave left the union, and started a successful fencing business, whose company built the fencing at several major projects in SE Queensland, including the airport upgrade, condolences go out to Les and Gary, and to the rest of Dave's family. Joe Plunkett Joe passed away suddenly in early 2006, his docks career started in about 1971 when as a fifteen year old street kid, he would turn up at the union rooms every morning, along with about two hundred other blokes, to be placed at one of the union respondent work sites, I met him in 1972 when I was doin' the same, he was around sixteen then, and was widely respected as a good and willing worker, with an excellent attendance record!! Joe was "King of the 'Gabba," the Brisbane suburb of Wooloongabba, is close to the dry dock at South Brisbane, with Peter's Slip, a ship repair facility, and the former Evans Deaken ship yard at Kangaroo Point, just down the road. Painters and Dockers took drinks at the many pubs, bars and taverns in that district, which catered to the waterfront and industrial clientele, and it was in that heady environment, where some men naturally stand out from others, that Joe, like Napoleon the Great, crowned himself King! Bill "Billy Jack" Jackson Received from Shannon Jackson, 20 September 2008 .. do any of the older guys remember my father, Bill “Billy Jack” Jackson, he passed away in 2000, he was loyal to the union, and really followed the Touch One Touch All line.. We certainly do remember him Shannon, and our condolences go out to you, your Mum and the rest of Bill's family, he was a widely liked, and very well thought of member for many years, he was captain of the Dockies cricket team, and played Father Christmas every year, at the Christmas party. Just last week one of Bill's old mates popped up, that was Harry O'Mara who we all called "Harry the Wig" since he wore a rug, Harry is about ninety two, and lives in a surfside flat at Burleigh Heads, he and Bill were great mates. Micah Beckett Mike's sister rang in July 2005, and said our former member Micah had passed away.. Micah and I worked together in Newcastle in 1979, when his dad Ernie, who was previously a union rigger at Cairncross Dock in Brisbane, was Foreman at Corrosion Control, a Newcastle marine contracting company. I was sequestered from another job, one Saturday in May that year, to go to a CC job on a ship in Newcastle Harbor, Micah was driving the crane, my job was to unsling the loads on shore, later that day I was off to play football with Wallsend, an Australian Rules team in the Hunter Valley league. Mike was going to play Rugby in the local league, so toward lunch time, we all wanted get the job done and get along, t o that end Ernie's wife and daughter, had brought lunch down with them in the car, so I was out on the wharf when along came this car, with a beautiful girl about fourteen years old, and her Mum. When we talked on the phone, I recalled that Ernie had passed on some years before, and that his brother Alfie, who had also been in Newcastle and Brisbane had gone, both were great union men, Ernie was known for his excellent on job acumen and know how, while Alfie was a "dockies dockie," first with a cheerful remark, a great host in Newcastle, and a great gentleman on the job, and everywhere else.