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The Australian Workers' Union believes that too many immigrants are coming from Southern Europe and are being given employment preference to the detriment of Australians.
They call for assisted migration to be ceased for the time being.

This newspaper articles provides some insight into the Federal Government's view on post-Second World War immigrant membership of unions in Australia. It demonstrates that the government want all migrant workers to join their respective unions to…

This Executive Report was primarily concerned with Baltic immigrants and their integration into the workforce.
- At the invitation of the government, a union official was invited to a migrant arrival camp to better understand the role these…

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…

Newspaper article relating the Origin and Progress of the Eight-Hour Movement in Melbourne

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…

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…