Adelaide - Industrial Relations
A meeting called to form a Mechanics' Institute is reported in the Observer,
21 August 1847, page 7c.
"Condition of the Labourer" is in the Register,
28 April 1855, page 2f,
"The Unemployed" on
25 July 1855, page 2e.
"The Saturday Half-Holiday" is in the Register,
3 December 1862, page 2f.
A stonemasons' strike at the Town Hall and National Bank sites is reported
in the Advertiser,
12 and 13 February 1864, pages 3c and 2g.
A proposed Carpenter & Joiners' Association is discussed in the Register,
16 January 1865, page 3g.
A meeting of painters is reported in the Register,
16 and 20 October 1869, pages 2g and 2f.
A photograph of Hunt's Labour Office in Bank Street is in the Register,
14 August 1919, page 5.
"The Drapers' Holidays" is in the Register,
23 November 1869, page 2d.
A poem titled "The Draper's Assistant" is in The Lantern,
18 December 1886, page 19.
Labour problems at the Pantheon Boot Factory are the subject of several letters
and an editorial in the Register - see
15, 16, 17, 18 and 23 September 1874, pages 6e, 7f, 3d, 5b and 4d.
A sketch of the factory is in the Pictorial Australian in
November 1878.
An obituary of a proprietor, Thomas Johnson, is in the Observer,
10 November 1894, page 32b.
Also see Adelaide - Factories
and Mills.
A bootmakers' strike at Mr Blackeby's factory in Rundle Street is traversed
in the Register on
22, 24, 30 and 31 December 1875, pages 5a, 6f, 6c and 6b;
1 January 1876, page 5e; also see
17, 25 and 27 October 1883, pages 7a, 5b and 5b.
"The Difficulty in the Boot Trade" is in the Register,
16 May 1879, pages 4d-5b.
Chronicle,
17, 24 and 31 May 1879, pages 8a, 5c and 7c.
A general strike of bootmakers is first reported in the Register,
14 and 17 November 1885 and is mentioned all but daily until settled on 24
December 1885.
Similarly, during October 1891 there are frequent reports from 5 October; also
see
29 October 1896, page 7c,
4 November 1896, page 7f,
17 February 1897, page 5d through to 11 June 1897, page 5b,
30 March 1898, page 7f.
A controversy over females' wages in factories is discussed in the Register,
31 May 1878, page 7b-c,
1, 3 and 4 June 1878, pages 7c, 6d and 7b.
Also see South Australia - Women - Industrial
Relations.
The cost of living in Adelaide is analysed in the Register,
12 November 1879, page 4c.
"The Unemployed" is in the Express,
21 August 1883, page 2b,
23 May 1884, pages 2c-3f.
"The Unemployed in Adelaide" is in the Register,
21 May 1884, page 6b.
A meeting called to consider forming a Working Men's Club is reported in
the Register,
23 October 1883, pages 4f-6b - also see
23, 28 and 30 June 1880, pages 5f, 4e and 6e,
11 December 1883, page 4e,
Express,
17 December 1883, page 2b,
Register,
15 January 1884, pages 4d-6c,
29 July 1884, page 6g,
12 August 1884, page 4g,
31 January 1885, pages 5b-7e,
17 and 18 March 1885, pages 6d and 7f,
Express,
24 March 1885, page 3d,
30 April 1885, page 2e,
7 May 1885, page 3f,
3 June 1885, page 4d.
Its demise and resurrection are reported on in the Register,
30 April 1885, page 5b and
7 May 1885, page 7d.
Working Men's Societies are discussed on
12 September 1885, page 4g; also see
1, 4 and 9 December 1885, pages 7e, 7g and 7h:
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They are nothing better than sly grogshops, in fact they are worse - by paying
one shilling you become a member, and can at any time, day and night, Sundays
included, get intoxicants...
See Place Names - Islington.
A proposal to form a Working Men's Political Association is reported in the Register,
5 March 1886, page 5d; also see
9 March 1886, page 7c.
Information on the Shop Assistants' Association is in the Register,
15 January 1881 (supp.), page 1f.
See South Australia - Social
Matters - Early Closing.
A strike at the sewage farm is reported in the Register,
20 September 1882, page 4d; also see
21 September 1882, page 5g.
An interesting letter from a butcher calling for shorter hours in the trade
is in the Register,
16 January 1883, page 6g.
"Butchers' Hours of Labour" is in the Observer,
8 February 1890, page 36e.
Working conditions in retail bootshops are explained in the Register,
12 February 1884, page 7d:
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No time has he for recreation - no time for improvement, intellectual and social.
He is body and soul a mere business machine, wound up to go for twelve or
thirteen hours out of the twenty-four...
"Men About Town - The Working Man" is in the Register,
15 March 1884, page 5g.
A bakers' strike is reported in the Register,
7, 8 and 10 May 1884, pages 7b, 6c and 4h-5b-6f and on a regular basis until
10 June 1884, page 6e,
7 and 9 June 1884, pages 7c and 5b.
"Difficulty in the Baking Trade" is in the Register,
18 and 20 October 1892, pages 7c and 7c,
Observer,
22 October 1892, page 36c,
20 and 22 February 1893, pages 6f and 4h,
8 and 13 March 1893, pages 7g and 7f,
3 June 1893, pages 4f-6c,
19 July 1893, page 6f,
14 August 1895, pages 4e-7b.
"The Dearth of Employment" is in the Register,
25, 27 and 28 February 1885, pages 4e-h, 5h-6f, 4e and 6e.
"The Imprisoned Ironworkers" is in the Register,
22 September 1885, page 5b.
A strike by workers at the Bank of Australasia site is reported in the Express,
22, 25 and 26 June 1886, pages 3d-4b, 3e and 3g.
A meeting of farriers called to discuss the formation of a union is reported
in the Register,
8 July 1886, page 5c;
similarly, that of a cabdrivers and draymen appears on
29 June 1886, page 5c; also see
10 July 1886, page 5d.
"A Working Man's Platform" is in the Register,
11 February 1887, page 7h.
A meeting called to form a an Eight-Hours Protection Association is reported
in the Register,
24 February 1888, page 6c; also see
25 February 1888, page 4h and
23 March 1888, page 6d.
See South Australia - Industrial
Relations - Eight Hour Day.
"Sweating" in Adelaide is mentioned in the Register,
19 November 1888, page 5c - "We ought not to shut our eyes to the fact that
the same miserable system is at work here..."
Also see South Australia - Industrial
Relations - Sweating.
A strike in the Register office is reported in the Register,
24, 26, 27 and 29 November 1888, pages 5e, 5h, 5f and 7e,
4, 5 and 6 December 1888, pages 7d, 7a and 7h.
"Butchers' Hours of Labour" is in the Register,
5, 11 and 18 February 1890. pages 5b, 6e and 7g,
1 March 1890, page 5b.
"Unionists v Non-Unionists, Disgraceful Scene" is in the Register,
3, 6, 7 and 13 October 1891, pages 5b, 4h, 4g-6e and 4h-6d.
"The Dispute at Ladd's " is in the Register,
5 January 1892, page 6d.
A Wednesday half-holiday for shop assistants is discussed in the Observer,
6 February 1892, page 30c.
"The Unemployed Difficulty - Men Sleeping in the Open Air" is in the Express,
9 and 10 June 1893, pages 2e and 2c.
Also see Adelaide - Destitution.
"Arrest of Unemployed Agitator" is in the Express,
19 February 1894, pages 2c-3c.
A Wednesday afternoon holiday for grocers' assistants is discussed in the Observer,
2 February 1895, page 13e.
A strike of bottle collectors is reported in the Express,
17 March 1898, page 2e.
A meeting of the SA Marine Store Goods Collectors' Union is reported in the Register,
25 october 1898, page 4h.
An obituary of Jonathan Hosking is in the Register,
27 February 1903, page 4g.
"Hairdressers' Assistants' Hours" is in the Register,
6 August 1907, page 3e.
An obituary of G.H. Buttery, member of the Trades and Labour Council, is
in the Register,
11 and 12 November 1907, pages 4h and 5a.
"The Labour Lottery - A Morning at the Bureau" is in the Register,
19 March 1908, page 4h,
Observer,
28 March 1908, page 51a.
"Around the Factories - The Girls at Work" is in the Advertiser,
6 January 1910, page 10b,
"The Lot of the Working Girl - In the Factories During a Heat Wave" on
22 February 1910, page 9g.
Also see Women - Industrial Relations.
"The Rundle Street Strike" is in the Register,
6, 8, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18 and 20 October 1910, pages 6d-7c, 14g, 5a, 4f,
6c-7f, 13a-c-15a, 8c-5b and 8f; also see
Register,
24, 26 and 27 October 1910, pages 4c, 6b and 8f,
21 February 1911, pages 6b-9a.
"Clemency to Rioters" is in the Observer,
29 October 1910, page 33c,
"Anarchy in Adelaide" is in the Register,
14 December 1910, page 6c; also see
16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 26 December 1910, pages 6c-7-8, 14d, 6c-7d,
6c-7d, 4c-d-5d, 4c-5d, 4c-5e and 6g,
17 and 18 January 1911, pages 9a and 8e; also see
9, 10 and 13 June 1911, pages 7a, 15f and 5a; also see
9 February 1912, page 6c.
A history of the Coachmakers' Federation is in The News,
22 November 1928, page 24d.
Also see South Australia - Transport
- Horse Coaches and Adelaide - Factories
and Mills
"Adelaide Under Dictatorship" is in the Register,
15 December 1910, page 6c.
"Riot on North Terrace" is in the Register,
15, 16 and 17 December 1910, pages 7a-8b, 6f and 15d-e.
"The Building Trade - Masters Afraid of Their Employees" is in the Register,
5 November 1910, page 13a.
