Melbourne Trades Hall entrance on Lygon Street

Melbourne Trades Hall is a Trades Hall building located in the suburb of Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, and home to the Victorian Trades Hall Council. It is located on the corner of Lygon St and Victoria St. which is just north of the Melbourne central business district. Download high resolution version (1600x1267, 313 KB)Melbourne Trades Hall main entrance on Lygon Street, Carlton. ... Download high resolution version (1600x1267, 313 KB)Melbourne Trades Hall main entrance on Lygon Street, Carlton. ... Trades Hall is a building in the suburb of Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Carlton is an inner north-east suburb of the city of Melbourne, Australia. ... Melbourne is the capital and largest city of the state of Victoria, and the second largest city in Australia, with a population of 3,488,750 in the Melbourne metropolitan area (census 2001 [1]) and 52,117 in the City of Melbourne (which covers only the central city area). ... Motto: Peace and Prosperity Nickname: Garden State Other Australian states and territories Capital Melbourne Government Governor Premier Const. ... The Victorian Trades Hall Council is a representative body of trade union organisations in the State of Victoria, Australia. ... The Hoddle Grid is the layout of the streets of the central business district of Melbourne, Australia. ...

The original Trades Hall was opened in May 1859 after being built by workers as an organising place for the labour movement in Melbourne. The workers financed the construction of the building themselves. The hall underwent an upgrade from 1874 to 1925 at the hands of architectural firm Reed & Barnes and it remains one of the most historically important sites in Melbourne today. 1859 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... The labor movement (or labour movement) is a broad term for the development of a collective organization of working people, to campaign in their own interest for better treatment from their employers and political governments. ... This article is about the built environment. ... Joseph Reed (1823?-1890) was probably the most influential Victorian era architect in Melbourne, Australia. ...

The hall is located across the road from the 8 hour day monument which was erected to honour the Victorian workers who won the first 8 hour working day in the world in 1856. It is the birthplace of organisations like the Victorian Labour Party and Australian Council of Trade Unions and home to the Victorian Trades Hall Council. 1856 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) is the peak national body representing workers in Australia. ... The Victorian Trades Hall Council is a representative body of trade union organisations in the State of Victoria, Australia. ...

Trades Hall around the turn of the 20th century.

Four flags fly from the roof of the building: the Australian Flag, the Eureka Flag, the Australian aboriginal flag, and the Red flag. (See Photo) i got it from http://www. ... i got it from http://www. ... Flag ratio: 1:2 The flag of Australia is blue with the flag of the United Kingdom (or Union Flag) in the canton (the upper hoist quarter), and a large seven-pointed star known as the Commonwealth Star (six points representing the six original states and one point for the... The Eureka Flag The Eureka Flag was flown for the first time on Bakery Hill, Ballarat, Australia as a symbol of the resistance of the gold miners during the Eureka Stockade rebellion. ... Categories: Stub | Flags of Australia ... The red flag is a socialist emblem associated in particular with the revolutionary left as well as with social democratic and labour traditions (having been a banner used by parties such as Labour in Britain, the Socialist Party in France and other social democratic and democratic socialist groups throughout the... Download high resolution version (1600x1267, 313 KB)Melbourne Trades Hall main entrance on Lygon Street, Carlton. ...

Trades Hall is home to many of the Victorian trade unions, left-wing political parties and radical organisations. The various rooms of the hall can be hired out for functions, meetings or conferences and it is often used for theatrical productions and to display artwork. The hall has a bar which is patronised by trade union members and political activists and a bookshop which sells radical texts. A union (labor union in American English; trade union, sometimes trades union, in British English; either labour union or trade union in Canadian English) is a legal entity consisting of employees or workers having a common interest, such as all the assembly workers for one employer, or all the workers... In politics, left-wing, political left, leftism, or simply the left, are terms which refer (with no particular precision) to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy, or liberalism (especially in the American sense of the word), or with opposition... A political party is a political organization subscribing to a certain ideology or formed around very special issues. ... Radical is derived from the Latin word radix, which means root. In various fields of endeavor, it can mean: Sciences in chemistry, either an atom or molecule with at least one unpaired electron, or a group of atoms, charged or uncharged, that act as a single entity in reaction. ... Activism, in a general sense, can be described as involvement in action to bring about change, be it social, political, environmental, or other change. ...

External links

• A picture (http://www.tradeshallarts.com.au/history/h_front.jpg)
• Victorian Trades Hall Council (http://www.vthc.org.au/)
• Trades Hall Arts (http://www.tradeshallarts.com.au/)
• New International Bookshop (http://www.nibs.org.au/)
• 8 Hour Day: The battle for civilised working hours (http://www.cfmeu.asn.au/construction/proudpast/8hourday.html)