Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
151 days : history of the great waterfront lockout and supporting strikes, February 15 - July 15, 1951
Other Name
One hundred and fifty-one days (Alternate title)
Labour Reprint Society ; no.1 (Series)
Primary Maker
Contributor/Publisher
Labour Reprint Society
Place
Date
1977
Physical Description
xvi, 205 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 22 cm
Level of Current Record
Bib record
Member Object
Edition/State/Version
Facsimile edition
Subject Category
Public Access Text
Reprint with minor revision of illustrations and addition of preface to 1954 edition of first edition. Originally published Auckland : New Zealand Waterside Workers' Union (Deregistered), 1952. On cover: Foreword by Jock Barnes. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Associated Notes
Subject Notes
Richard George Scott ONZM (17 November 1923 - 1 January 2020) was a New Zealand historian and journalist. Raised on a farm at Whakarongo near Palmerston North, Scott attended Palmerston North Boys' High before completing a Diploma of Agriculture at Massey University. Working as a sharemilker, he studied socialism and joined the Communist Party. He became a journalist, and during the 1951 waterfront dispute edited the watersiders' newspaper Transport Worker and wrote illegal bulletins.
His concern for social justice led him to tell the story of Parihaka. Although, as historian Jock Phillips pointed out, "he had not met a MΓori person until the age of 20 and did not know Te Reo, he recognised injustice immediately when he came across it and became convinced the story should be told."
Scott had five children, four with his first wife Elsie du Fresne (d. 1991), and lived with his second wife in the suburb of Mount Eden, in Auckland, New Zealand. One of his children was the novelist Rosie Scott.
In 2011, Scott made headlines when he auctioned a Don Binney painting that he had owned for almost 50 years, and donated the NZD $300,000 proceeds to the Christchurch earthquake appeal. Scott died on 1 January 2020.--Wikipedia, retrieved January 2020.
Collection Type
Reading Room
Reserve Collection
Copyright
All rights reserved
Last Update
19 Dec 2023
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