ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a longitudinal case study of the celebration of the death of a single worker in a 1919 industrial dispute on the Fremantle waterfront. In purely concrete terms, the Tom Edwards Memorial Fountain has stood in Kings Square in the centre of the Western Australian port city of Fremantle since 1982. In 1917, the Fremantle Lumpers Union refused to load flour onto a ship bound for the Dutch East Indies on the grounds that it might find its way, via the Netherlands, to Germany. The small patch of land now known as Solidarity Park is located between a car park and the road at the rear of Western Australia's Parliament House. Bulbeck identifies two phases in the erection of Australian workers' monuments: in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century's, during a period of union formation and industrial unrest; and again after 1970.
