See R.M. Martin , "The A.C.T.U. Congress of 1969", Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 261-8; Barry Hughes, "The National Wage Case", Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 72-80; and C.P. Mills, "Decisions Affecting Industrial Relations", this issue of this journal.
3.
The principal period covered by this note is July, 1969, to June, 1970.
4.
Strike figures in the first quarter of 1968 were affected by protests over the metal trades work-value decision. Figures for the second quarter of 1969 were significantly affected by the protest strikes which occurred when the trade union leader, C. O'Shea, was gaoled.
5.
See respectively The Australian, March 11 and 21, 1970; The Australian, April 28, 1970; and News Weekly, January 14, 1970.
6.
For a discussion of these factors see Bentley and Hughes, op. cit.
7.
The Australian, November 8, 1969.
8.
The Australian, January 31, 1970.
9.
"Australian Professional and White-Collar Unions", reprinted in J.E. Isaac and G.W. Ford, Australian Labour Relations: Readings (Sun Books, 1966), p. 186.
10.
"The Interindustry Propensity to Strike—An International Comparison ", in A. Kornhauser, R. Dubin and A. M. Ross (eds.), Industrial Conflict (McGraw-Hill, 1954), p. 195.
11.
C.P.S.B., Press Release, June 18, 1970.
12.
Ibid.
13.
"A New Wage Tribunal?", The Australian Financial Review, July 10, 1970, p. 7.
14.
The Australian, April 8, 1970.
15.
The Australian, June 18, 1970.
16.
The Australian, July 31, 1970.
17.
Events preceding this ballot are given in "Australian Trade Unionism 1968-9", K.W. Hince, Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 269-75.
18.
"Whose A.W.U.?", Fred Wells, Nation, June 27, 1970, pp. 10-11. 1970), p. 121.
19.
"Work", in Australian Society, A. F. Davies and S. Encel (eds.) (Cheshire,
20.
The Australian, September 6, 1969.
21.
In a practical sense trade unions are not collective goods because joint consumption by members of society does not occur; and in a theoretical sense they are not collective goods because the industrial relations system can be arranged so as to exclude non-union members from "benefits" experienced by union members.
22.
The Australian, September 27, 1969.
23.
Metal Trades Industry Association of Australia, Press Release, February 23, 1970.
