On 15 November 1938, 180 wharfies prevented pig iron being loaded onto ships bound for the Japanese war machine. Back in 1938, reports were making their way back to Australia of the brutalities carried out by the Japanese Imperial Army when Ted Roach, then-Branch Secretary for the Waterside Workers’ Federation, addressed the men at the labour pick up for the ship – the Dalfram. He told the men of the destination of the pig iron and the uses the Japanese would make of it: bombs – first against th