Bob Davies interviewed by Richard Raxworthy in the Labor Council of New South Wales oral history project [sound recording]

Mr Davies, a union official, Federated Ironworkers Association, speaks of his early life in Coogee and Randwick; his early employment; joining the Federated Storemen and Packers at Hume Pipes; becoming delegate; management attitudes to disputes; committee of management; conditions; disputes; becoming an organiser; structure reorganisation; demarcation disputes; appearances before the Arbitration Commission; relations with the Builders' Labourers; disputes committee meetings; Ralph Marsh; retirement of Lawrie Short; green bans; differences between Victorian branch and the national office; his involvement in the ALP; tactics used against the left at conferences; Communist influence; penal clauses sanctions and secondary boycotts; credentials committee of the ALP; branch stacking; Peter Baldwin; agenda committee; Labor Party conferences; Pat Clancy; distinction between the steel industry and the metal industry; restructuring; mergers; keeping in touch with rank and file members; changes in management; enterprise bargaining; his involvement in the ACTU; standards; differences between State and Federal branches; overseas trips.