Sir Robert Menzies

Posted in 1938

  • "Pig Iron Bob", The Argus, 14 December Pig-Iron Bob:

"The Christmas Ham: for workers at Port Kembla the Christmas of 1938 is a bleak time. Thanks to watersiders' refusal to load a cargo of pig-iron for Japan, steelworks have been closed and unemployment looms. As Attorney-General, Menzies has to handle the dispute for the Commonwealth Government, which contests the right of a union to make national foreign policy. As the issues become muddied, Menzies wins the well-known soubriquet of 'Pig-Iron Bob'."
A W Martin, Robert Menzies A Life Vol 1 1894-1943, 1993 p 253.

 Viscount Elibank and Lady Margaret Shaw with Sir Robert