1948 Queensland railway strike

Confrontation with police during demonstration in support of the strike, Brisbane, 17 March 1948

The 1948 Queensland railway strike was a strike which lasted nine weeks, from 3 February to 5 April, 1948, over wages of workers at railway workshops and locomotive depots in Queensland, Australia.

As head of the Commonwealth Security Services in Queensland, Bob Wake played an active role in watching the activities of the Communist Party of Australia during the strike.^[1]

References

↑ Wake, Val (2004), No ribbons or medals : the story of "Hereward", an Australian counter espionage officer, Jacobyte Books, ISBN 978-1-74100-165-5

The Queensland Rail Strike 1948 at takver, an Australian Radical History Web Page.

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[1] Wake, Val (2004), No ribbons or medals : the story of "Hereward", an Australian counter espionage officer, Jacobyte Books, ISBN 978-1-74100-165-5