This text created in 1935 highlights the various rules of the Melbourne Trades Hall council. It includes but is not limited to: names of delegates, administration assistants, secretarial assistants, the powers of the council, business, building and…
Newspaper coverage of a 1921 Victorian Railways Union motion expressing sympathy with Irish railway workers killed by the British state during the Irish War of Independence.
The article includes the full text of the motion passed by the Victorian…
Letter to the editor by Australian Aid for Ireland (AAI) publicity director and union member Gerard Steele in the September 1987 issue of 'Metal Worker', the newspaper of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union.
The letter includes a report from Ard…
A photograph of a banner published in the early Victorian illustrated newspaper The Australasian Sketcher reading "8 hours labour 8 hours recreation 8 hours rest"
The Labor government of 1910 was not only the first time that the Labor Party, the political wing of the labour movement, born in the Melbourne Trades Hall, had a majority in the lower house of Australia, but also the first majority of any party in…
This handbill commemorates the first Eight Hours Procession, celebrated just weeks after Victorian stonemasons, for the first time in world history, established an eight-hour day. Extravagant entertainments and a banquet dinner entertained over 1200…
This image depicts the parade celebrating 139 years since the establishment of the eight hour working day. The parade travelled from Trades Hall through much of the city and this photograph was taken just outside of the Victorian Parliament building,…
Document of the receipts and expenditures documented by the Eight-Hour Anniversary Committee in 1875, noting the celebration elements of the day, such as bands, repairing the banners and various expenditures of the day.
This article shows that the Trades Hall declared itself as against the Commonwealth Bill of 1898. Although the article does stipulate that the Hall was in favour of federation generally, it stipulates that the Bill was seen to be undemocratic, with…
This article gives an account of a resolution passed by the Trades Hall Council which shows support to Austrian socialists after they were repressed by the Austrian government. It also stipulates a warning given by the Council to Australian workers…
Agenda Items Covered in Report:
- Director-General's Report
- Financial and Budgeting Questions
- Committee on Application of Conventions and Recommendation's Agenda
- Committee on Industrial Relations' Agenda
- Committee on Wages' Agenda
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Explains the waning significance of the 8-Hour Day Movement and Anniversary, especially in relation to 'Labour Day'. Describes Labour Day processions through the city streets, and brief history of the 8-Hour Movement. Identifies Welshman, James…
"A May Day March in Russell Street Melbourne, in 1982. The Victorian Trades Hall building and a branch of the Commonwealth Bank on the corner of Victoria Street are visible. Communist Party of Australia Women's Collective members carry a large…
Presents the argument against big-business - mostly for 'the control of credit is tantamount to the control of government'; 'the private banking system has failed to use the power inherent in the control of credit in the interests of the community'…