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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 is a letter from the secretary of the Prime Minister to the managing agents of the Commonwealth Government Line of Steamers requesting them to cease their strike.
It states that if the Seamen's Union do not continue to man Australian-owned…

This is an article from the Argus newspaper about the Trades Hall robbery and shooting of Constable David McGrath. On 2 October 1915, thieves broke into Trades Hall in an attempt to steal money from the many union safes that were kept on the premises…

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

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…

A newspaper article giving a detailed account of the events that unfolded the previous morning (1st October, 1915), when a police officer was shot and killed during the attempted robbery of the Melbourne Trades Hall by three armed burglars. Two…

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…

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…

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.

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…