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12 March 1949: Press Remembers First Eight Hours Day In Light Of Increasingly Irrelevant Anniversary
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…
6 April 1927: Eight Hours Day Procession Largest On Record
Account of the Eight Hour Day procession in Melbourne April 6 1927, the largest on record.
23 April 1883: Glowing Recollection Of The Origins Of The Eight Hours Movement In Melbourne
Newspaper article relating the Origin and Progress of the Eight-Hour Movement in Melbourne
1875: Balance-Sheet Of The Eight-Hour Anniversary Committee
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.
1 May 1895: Eight Hours Day Anniversary Parade Continues
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,…
12 May 1856: Grand Celebrations At The First Achievement Of The Eight Hour Day In Victoria
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…
April-May 1856: The First Eight Hours Banner Unfurled
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"