Last Night was the monthly meeting of the Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society and being May we asked Author Wendy Lowenstein to reminis about the May Day marches from the Trades Hall in Melbourne down through the city streets to Yarra Bank where volatile speakers would let us know the rights of the workers.As I child I was so proud to walk with my Father holding his hand in front of the Ironworkers/Boilermakers large hand painted banner.Not even knowing what it was all about didnt matter I knew whatever Dad did was right. Is it like this today with parents and children I hope so.Wendy is a grand storyteller of an era long gone and as she said not documented for our archives as an important part of our working history.Wendy wrote a wonderful oral history of the 1930,s depression called Weevils in the Flour and travelled Australia wide in her research ,it is humorous and sometimes sad of an era we cannot begin to understand.Coming from a family of waterside workers I loved her book Under the Hook she wrote with Tom Hills .Tom came every week to chat with my Father when he was ill and they would solve the problems of the world .Both Tom and my Father are long gone and I feel we may never see their like again .Regards Lois Daley Port Melbourne Tuesday 29th May 2001