De muiterij op de Zeven Provincien [The Mutiny on The Seven Provinces]

Stokes, Lawrence D.

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“…The crew told me they had no salt, milk, tea (there was coffee) curry or sauce. Their maintenance is a matter for the employer, and perhaps you will labor is discussed in Julia Martínez (1999) "Questioning 'White Australia': Unionism and 'Coloured' Labour, 1911-1937 Lawrence Stokes (1977) 68 "Sydney Unions Support Mutineers", The Argus, 10 February 1933: 7.…”

Section: Protest and Internationalism: Malays Join With Australian Unmentioning

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The Evolution Of ‘Malay’ Labour Activism, 1870-1947: protest among pearling crews in Dutch East Indies-Australian waters

Martínez

2009

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The history of Indonesian labour activism as seen from an Australian perspective is best known in the context of World War Two when the presence of Asian seamen in Australia sparked a flourish of internationalism and anticolonial protest under the umbrella organization of the Seamen's Union of Australia. But the story of Malay maritime worker protest has a deeper history, reaching back to the early years of the pearl-shelling and trepang industries when Malay workers from the Dutch East Indies were brought to work off the northern Australian coast. Before the advent of a seamen's union, these workers faced harsh working conditions and had little recourse to legal forms of protest. Their refusal to accept poor conditions was met with reprisals which included physical punishment, gaol sentences and detention on board ships without shore leave. There is evidence that in the late nineteenth century the most common form of protest was mutiny, with Malay crews seizing vessels and sailing to the Dutch East Indies. By the twentieth century there was more scope for negotiation, with increasing support from Australian unions and improved government regulation. The milder forms of more recent protests and the willingness of Indonesians to take their cue from Australian unionists has somewhat obscured the nature of early Malay protest. This paper takes a longer view of worker activism in order to highlight the deep roots of maritime protest in the Indian Ocean region. [Malays, seamen, activism] 1 Julia Martínez is a Senior Lecturer in Asian and Australian history and a researcher in the Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies at the University of Wollongong, working on themes of colonialism, race and labour.

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Section: Protest and Internationalism: Malays Join With Australian Unmentioning

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The Evolution Of ‘Malay’ Labour Activism, 1870-1947: protest among pearling crews in Dutch East Indies-Australian waters

Martínez

2009

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De muiterij op de Zeven Provincien [The Mutiny on The Seven Provinces]

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The Evolution Of ‘Malay’ Labour Activism, 1870-1947: protest among pearling crews in Dutch East Indies-Australian waters

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