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Title
King Working-Man
Subject
Eight hour day, Eight-hour day movement, freedom of labour, Peasants Revolt, organized labour, labour, labourer, work, worker, working class, Premier Gilles, unions, union, unionism
Description
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 monster. King Working-Man, with tin crown emboldened with the symbol of the eight-hour movement on it, with working man’s garb and hobnailed boots, lounges on his humble wooden throne clasping a sceptre. Premier Gilles is his attendant while wool, timber, shipping and sugar magnates grovel at his feet.
Creator
poss. ‘Tom’ Carrington (Francis Thomas Dean Carrington)
Source
Punch Magazine, Melbourne
Publisher
Punch Magazine, Melbourne
Date
18 August 1887
Rights
Public Domain
Format
Newspaper Illustration; Hyperlink