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Creswick Miners Association (1870s - c. 1883) |
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| Function: Trade Union (State or Territory only) | |
| Location: Creswick, Victoria | |
| Although a miners' union had been formed at Creswick sometime in the early 1870s, it wasn't until mine owners sought to reduce the price of contracting in the nearby Rostori alluvial mine in 1878 that miners united to the extent they did. Under the leadership of W.G. Spence and John Sampson, the existing union was reformed as the Creswick Miners' Association. In 1882 the Association effectively forced the amalgamation of the moribund Bendigo Miners' Association into the Creswick union. In 1883, the Creswick Miners' Union became a branch of the Amalgamated Miners' Association of Victoria which went on to be known as the Amalgamated Miners' Association of Australasia and then the Australasian Coal & Shale Employees' Federation. |
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Published by University of Melbourne, 7 March 2002 Based on "Parties to the Award" published 1994. Submit any comments, questions, corrections and additions Prepared by: Acknowledgements Updated: 29 June 2006 http://www.atua.org.au/biogs/ALE1080b.htm |