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No mention of the gross corruption? The conviction for fraud of Norm Gallagher?

You are welcome to put it up. But try to be detailed. The BLF never had its day in court because an Act of Parliament destroyed them, not the courts.Dankru 11:50, 10 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I've put in some references as to leave it out is absurd. An encyclopedia can never give all details. I've also linked to the page on Gallagher.--Jack Upland 05:40, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Apostrophes?[edit]

The current punctuation of the article title is puzzling. Why is there an apostrophe in Labourers', but not one in Builders? Both words appear to be used as possessives, but Commonwealth English has a tendency to drop the apostrophes in possessives when they're part of a title. (This sometimes happens in the US, too.) I followed the link to the Queensland BLF, and they don't use an apostrophe in either word. Personally, I would choose correctness and put both the apostrophes in; it would also be reasonable to follow the organization's own usage (as far as I know from the link) and leave them both out. But why put one in and not the other? Has that been the way it's historically spelled by the BLF? --Reuben 03:55, 29 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Reuben, I have made a judgment call on this one. You're right, in part. I believe it was orginally an apostrophe after the Builders', because the labourers were really working for the builders and hence possessive tense used. But the BLF themselves do not use apostrophes so this should be adopted. Dankru 10:01, 3 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, that explains it. I never would have guessed that. --Reuben 15:42, 3 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think this needs to be re-openned for discussion. I came across a book in my collection of songbooks - Builders' Labourers' Song Book Published by Widescape International and the BLF, 1975. ISBN 0869320106. Throughout the book it always uses the apostrophes after <Builders> and <Labourers> whenever the name of the union is used. The full name of the union was: Australian Building Construction Employees' and Builders' Labourers' Federation--Takver 13:20, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Dates[edit]

The introduction says the BLF "existed from 1911 until 1972, and from 1976 until 1986". But didn't the federal intervention against Mundey etc happen in 1975?--Jack Upland (talk) 19:44, 23 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]