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Jim Healy - Leader of the Waterside Workers Federation
Written at the height of “Big Jim” Healy’s notoriety by fellow member Rupert Lockwood. Hounded by the Menzies government, he steered wharfies through many bitter struggles to secure dignified work in an industry with an appalling history for insecure, low-paid and dangerous work.