"It's the thin edge of the wedge" [picture] /

Title devised by cataloguer.; Published in the Canberra Times on 15 August 1986.; Part of the Pryor collection of cartoons and drawings. Rampaging chairmen of Peko Wallsend Charles Copeman, arch foe of unions and paid up member of the H R Nicholls Society sacks 1,100 workers in a management shutdown at the Robe River mine site over union work practices. No doubt he is reliving the glory days of Mudginberri in the Northern Territory, when the Australian Meat Industry Employees Union (AMIEU) was successfully prosecuted under the secondary boycott provisions of Section 45D of the Trade practices Act.--Information provided by Geoff Pryor