Building the New World by Erik Olssen

Author:Erik Olssen [Olssen, Erik]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781869405496
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Published: 2011-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Kensington on the eve of the great upheaval. Hillside Road runs at right angles to the railway and meets Cargill Road at Ogg’s Corner. The cottages belong to the workshop’s workers. Burton Brothers, Museum of New Zealand.

Boyd’s analysis of the membership of the Protection League in Dunedin demonstrates the unity of masters and journeymen. Almost half of the members and most of the leaders were master tradesmen, men like Rutherford and Lister. Skilled journeymen and larger employers provided about 12 per cent of the membership each while the unskilled and semi-skilled between them contributed a little more than 10 per cent. The 150 men who can be traced practised seventy-seven different trades. Bootmakers, carpenters, tailors and cabinetmakers were the trades most heavily represented.52 Few of the activists, however, were prominent in the fledgling union movement. In mobilising hundreds of workers into ‘the strongest association of a political character that had ever had existence in Otago’, and articulating the idea that the colony could be self-sufficient in manufactured goods, the Protection League forged an enduring legacy. Over the next generation the union movement on The Flat accepted protection as its gospel, but it only accepted what ‘the people’ of Caversham had long wanted.53

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