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Photograph - Staff Unloading Coal at Sunshine Harvester Works, Sunshine, Victoria, 1911

Black and white photograph of Sunshine Harvester Works office staff unloading coal from rail wagons during the 1911 strike. Photograph is located in an album: Volume No.1: 'Views of Fa ...

From: Sunshine, Australia Images: 1
Letter & Envelope - H.V. McKay, to Prime Minister Andrew Fisher, 26 Feb 1911

Letter, with envelope, from H.V. McKay to Andrew Fisher, Prime Minister of Australia concerning the Agricultural Implement Makers Union strike in January 1911. This was the first union ...

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Letter - Prime Minister Andrew Fisher, to H.V. McKay, 24 Feb 1911

Letter from Andrew Fisher, Prime Minister of Australia to H. V. McKay concerning the 1911 strike. Fisher says: "I should like to meet you in reference to the harvester industrial disput ...

From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 8
Poem - H. V. McKay, 'The Burial of the Hatchet', 1911

Poem by N.B. McKay concerning the end of the strike over compulsory trade unionism at Sunshine. Presumably refering to the 1911 strike. Part of the H.V. McKay Archive which includes an ...

From: Sunshine, Australia Images: 3
Photograph - Staff Unloading Coal, Sunshine, Victoria, 1911

Black and white photograph of office staff at Sunshine Harvester Works unloading coal from the Railway Trucks at the factory during the 1911 strike. Photograph is located in an album: ...

From: Sunshine, Australia Images: 1