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A report on the Australian Trade Union Congress conducted in 1916 at the Melbourne Trades Hall to discuss the attitude of unions towards the issue of conscription for overseas service during the First World War. The document presents the minutes from…

This article details a meeting of 300,000 unionists and their opposition to conscription. The resolution which declared the congress' hostility toward conscription passed with 258,018 in favour and 753 against. The articles also presents a number…

This newspaper article details the raiding of the Melbourne Trades Hall and the subsequent seizing of pamphlets containing arguments and manifesto against conscription by Police.

Following the raid of the building and seizure of anti-conscription pamphlets by government forces. The minutes include discussions held to decide the planned response by the council to the government's actions. They suggest protest against the…

An anti-conscription campaign publication aimed at voters in the December 1917 plebiscite, imploring Australians to reject the notion to instate mandatory conscription in Australia during World War I. The publication includes a series of smaller…

This source demands fair working conditions and wages for men who were injured in war.

A piece representative of the Melbourne Trades Hall Committee that is completely opposed to the war, except if it becomes an onshore issue. Particularly argues for peace, and constant use of science to further society. Labor defeated conscription in…

Because of breaches of a temporary ban on the broadcast of information concerning the presumed loss of H.M.A.S. Sydney A Class Station-3AR, Melbourne and two B class stations- 2UW, Sydney, and 3KZ, Melbourne-are being temporarily put off the air.