Identity area
Type of entity
Trade union
Authorized form of name
Lithgow and District Six Hours and Labor Day Committee
Parallel form(s) of name
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Other form(s) of name
- 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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Description area
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.
Places
Lithgow, New South Wales
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Functions, occupations and activities
Representation for trade unionists
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Internal structures/genealogy
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Dates of creation, revision and deletion
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)