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Selected Events in Trade Union History All-Australian Trade Union Congress (1926)

From
1926
Sydney, New South Wales
To
1926
Functions
Congress

Summary

According to Hagan (History of the ACTU, 1981, p 43) this congress did not have the same support as its predecessors. The Melbourne Trades Hall Council did not participate. The congress passed a motion expressing displeasure with the way in which Federal Labor politicians and the Commonwealth Council of Federated Unions had misrepresented the trade union movement in the lead up to the 1926 Referendum on changes to the Constitution which were require to put into effect an Essential Services Bill and an Industries and Commerce Bill.

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 1902 Interstate Labour Congress
       1907 Federal Trade Union Congress
             1913 Interstate Congress of Trade and Labour Councils
                   1921 All-Australian Trade Union Congress
                         1922 All-Australian Trade Union Congress
                               1925 All-Australian Trade Union Congress
                                     1926 All-Australian Trade Union Congress

Published resources

Conference Proceedings

  • Report of the Third All-Australian Trade Union Congress -Trades Hall, (Sydney) August 7th, 1926, also report of the Preliminary Pacific Conference, The Congress, Sydney, 1926, 29 pp. Details

Bruce A. Smith

Created: 14 January 2002, Last modified: 8 February 2002