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SA Register 1888 Thurs 26 April Carnival of King Labour

Report on the Eight Hours Day procession in Melbourne in 1888. The article describes the vivid and essentially working-class flavour of the skilled trades procession and after-picnic in Melbourne. The tinsmithsâ€™ knightly armour invokes…

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Perth Town Hall

An image of the Perth Town Hall.

Construction of the Perth Town Hall began in 1867, and the building was officially opened in 1870. Upon the order of Governor Hampton the Town Hall was built as part of a Public Works programme that utilised…

Meatworkers in the Labor Day March in Toowoomba

Procession halted in front of the Toowoomba Hall. Labor Day parade celebrates the eight hour working day. Processions with banners were a feature of the later medieval period. The metalworkers' banner has a medieval predecessor in the banners used by…

Tags: banner, banners, class, Labor Day, labour, labourer, labourers, parade, procession, suits, worker, workers, working class

Labor Day Procession in Argent Street, Broken Hill

A photograph from c. 1911 of a large crowd lining Argent Street in Broken Hill to watch a Labor Day procession of men carrying union banners. Union banners have a medieval predecessor in the banners used by guilds (an association of craftsmen in the…

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King Working-Man

This illustration portrays the great fear of the establishment in the late nineteenth century in Australia, an organised workforce. Union organisation and affiliation and the strengthening of fraternities and friendly societies appeared to create a…

Tags: Eight Hour Day, Eight-hour day movement, freedom of labour, labour, labourer, organized labour, Peasants Revolt, Premier Gilles, union, unionism, unions, work, worker, working class

Geelong Trades Hall Front View â€˜Labor Omnia Vincitâ€™

â€˜Labor Omnia Vincitâ€™ (work conquers everything) is a historically significant slogan associated with the American and English labour movements. It was also the motto of the Knights of Labour, a group started in the 1860s in America. The…

Tags: Geelong Trades Hall Building, knight, knights, Knights of Labor, Labor, Labor Omnia vincit, labour, labourer, Latin mottoes, trade, Trade Union, trade unionism, union, unionism, unions, work, working class

Female Servantâ€™s Revolt

This illustration is an early reference to the beginnings of the eight-hour movement. One of the first marches took place in Melbourne in 1856, when the Stonemasons working on the build of the University of Melbourne, marched to Parliament protesting…

Tags: Eight Hour Day, Eight-hour day movement, freedom of labour, labour, labourer, Melbourne, Melbourne 888, Peasants Revolt, revolution, women servants, work, worker, working class

Federated Municipal Employees Marching in Trade Union Parade

Federated Municipal Employees depicted with a FME banner drawn by four horses at a trade union parade in Ballarat, 1920. Some historians consider trade unions to be the successors of medieval guilds. For information regarding the Federated Municipal…

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