Secretary of the Fremantle Branch of the Seamen’s Union, Ron Hurd, gave the government two months warning before imposing the ban on 1 July 1949.
Seamen's Union Warns Government on Wool Ban
Citation
Ron Hurd to Lew McBeath, 28 April 1949, SROWA, 1943/0621/162.
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