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

Mr Batterham, Secretary, retired member of the Tram and Bus Workers' Association, talks of his family background; the effect of the wireless on the gramophone industry; working on trams; lilywhites and scabs; Tramway Union; Tramway band; "The Shock" newspaper; working conditions of tram cleaners; joining the ALP; the class struggle; becoming union delegate; campaign against footboard trams; Dowling Street Depot; Rozelle Depot; "Batterham's Baby"; becoming Deputy Yard Delegate, Burwood; Labor Council meetings; Unemployed Workers' Movement; 1917 strike; kids jumping on trams; non-paying passengers; decoys; Crowns; jumping jack; giving sand; industrial groupers; women working on buses and trams; Catholic Action; changeover to driving buses; Atlantean buses; communism; socialism; Bill White; his sporting activities; Red Rules.