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8am: 'bull' labour pick-up - SS Canadian Inventor, No. 10 Wharf, Walsh Bay

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Photographer: Arthur Aitken

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The foreman or company representative is the focal point of the horseshoe-shaped ring of wharf labourers. Under the bull system only the strongest and least troublesome men were chosen for work.

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/48143

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Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia - Photographs

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Archives Series

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Mar-27

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Open Access

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This image is provided for research purposes only and must not be reproduced without the prior permission of the Archives Program, Australian National University

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