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Melbourne Eight Hour Day .pdf
Account of the Eight Hour Day procession in Melbourne April 6 1927, the largest on record.

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Recount of a meeting at the Melbourne Trades Hall concerning the employment of women.
Recommendations for womens working conditions were made.

1923 Motion on Ireland VTHC.pdf
A meeting item introducing an Irish Republican delegation visiting Melbourne to speak to Victorian Trade Unionists about the Irish Civil War.

The minutes detail a sympathetic response from Council to the anti-Treaty Republican campaign in Ireland,…

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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…
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