The formation and development of trades unionism in Canterbury : a centennial lecture delivered under the auspices of the Christchurch Branch of the Workers Educational Association in the Trades Hall, November 7, 1950 / by James Thorn.
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Wellington [N.Z.] :
Standard Press,
[1950]
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Table of Contents:
- Personal note
- Influence of a centennial
- Organisation through unemployment
- Unemployed resolutions
- Birth of the unions
- Movement for trades council
- Working men's political associations
- Officers and principles
- An historic conference
- The conference decisions
- Premier addresses delegates
- Council's conference in Auckland
- Second attempt to form council
- The fruitful 1890's
- The tailoring trade union
- Strike at the Kaiapoi factory
- The Lyttelton watersiders
- The railway employees
- The typographers
- The Maritime Council
- The Canterbury Trades Council
- Political independence
- The farm labourers
- Conclusion.
