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A display cabinet showing hand-drawn posters and documents.

Framed Union Illustrations

Strength in Solidarity

These cartoons are poking fun at the unfair system of labour selection that was common before the introduction of the roster system

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A large procession of mourners walking past Fremantle's Esplanade Hotel. There are onlookers and carts with horses on the street also.

A Tough Place to Work - Wharfies and Lumpers

Hard work, and not much of it - bale hook, by the strength of thine back

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A display cabinet showing hand-drawn posters and documents.

Fremantle Lumper's Union of Workers documents and drawings.
Credit: WA Museum

The Western Australian Museum acknowledges and respects the Traditional Owners of their ancestral lands, waters and skies.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are advised that this digital guide may include images, sounds, and names of now deceased persons.