Lithgow and District Six Hours and Labor Day Committee

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Trade union

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Lithgow and District Six Hours and Labor Day Committee

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  • Lithgow and District Eight Hours and Labor Day Committee
  • Eight Hours Demonstration Committee
  • Six Hour Day Committee
  • Lithgow and District 6 Hour and Labor Day Committee

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Dates of existence

1900 - 1964

History

The organisation first began as the Lithgow and District Eight Hours and Labor Day Committee and was formed by unionists in 1900 and began a tradition of marches to celebrate shorter hours. It later became the Lithgow and District Six Hours and Labor Day Committee. The last Six Hours and Labor Day demonstrations were held in Lithgow in 1963.

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Lithgow, New South Wales

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Entered from deposit description on 6 November 2012

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Sources

Greg Patmore. Localism, Capital and Labour: Lithgow 1869-1932 (Paper presented at the 1998 Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand Wellington, N.Z, 3-5 February), http://www.mngt.waikato.ac.nz/departments/Strategy%20and%20Human%20Resource%20Management/Airaanz/old/conferce/wgtn1998/PDF/patmore.pdf (accessed on 6 November 2012)

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