‘From this time forward the colonies vied with each other in the amount of their contributions: governors, prime ministers, judges, legislators, stock-jobbers, and church dignitaries, jostled each other in the generous race. Two Australian banks competed for the privilege of forwarding remittances without charge, the Railway Commissioners gave every facility for collecting subscriptions in all branches of their departments, the Post-Master General offered to send cable messages free. The greater part of the earlier subscriptions came from the trade societies … the various branches of the Seamen’s Union throughout Australia had voted £1,100; the Wharf Labourers had given at least £1,200. Besides these sums, large subscriptions had come in from the stevedores, bricklayers, masons, tailors, furniture makers, bottle makers, boiler makers, railway servants, gas stokers, cigar makers, and other societies. The Salvation Army sent the proceeds of the sale of the War Cry, the football clubs agreed to forgo their gate money …’

– H. Llewellyn Smith & Vaughan Nash, The story of the dockers’ strike, Redwood Press Ltd, London, 1889, pp. 120-21.