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'Forty Hour Week' Meeting [B 9895] • Photograph

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Summary

Railwaymen at a lunch-hour meeting at Islington Workshops on 9 June 1937 to discuss the Forty Hour Week. Hundreds of railway workers can be seen standing outside the workshops.

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Physical description

Photograph; 26.0 cm x 10.2 cm

Dates / Publication details

9 June 1937

Photographer

News and Mail

Collection

Part of General Collection

Subject

Labor union meetings -- South Australia -- Islington

Catalogue record

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General notes

This photograph was published in The News newspaper on 9 June 1937, page 7.

Historical information

Forty-Hour Week Convention, 1935 (No.47) is an International Labour Organisation Convention which states "...it is necessary that a continuous effort should be made to reduce hours of work in all forms of employment to such extent as is possible..."

Digitisation information

Date

29/11/2005

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

4,300 x 1,713 pixels (7.4 MP)

Size

7.39 MB

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