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The author, Bob Phillips, was awarded life membership of the NSW Teachers Federation in 1987. "When the Newcastle Workers Club opened for business in 1948, the aim was to provide civilised drinking facilities for its trade union members. Fifty years later it has become a Newcastle institution: a popular entertainment centre and a consistent support of community causes. The club has had to confront many social and political changes since 1948. Its responses to feminism and equal opportunity, the entertainment revolution, industrial relations, environmentalism, as well as attacks on the club movement, make for interesting reading. The 1989 earthquake destroyed the Club's building, but not the determination and loyalty of the people needed to rebuild it. Not all the heroism displayed on that day has been acknowledged before now and this history attempts to redress that omission. Bob Phillips was born and raised in Weston, a former coal-mining town in the Hunter Valley, NSW. After matriculating from Cessnock High School, a teachers scholarship took him to New England University College, Armidale, in 1946 where he graduated Bachelor of Arts, majoring in history. A teaching career followed, along with an involvement in left-wing politics and trade union activism." -- Back cover. Donated by NSW Teachers Federation President, Maurie Mulheron. Support for local schools, p. 91; Support for NSW Teachers Federation 1957, p. 22. Support for local schools, p. 91; Support for NSW Teachers Federation 1957, p. 22.