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This clip begins with a pan across the delegates to the Victorian Labor Party’s 1928 Easter conference, standing outside Melbourne Trades Hall, and continues with individual shots of key Labor personalities of the time.
Curator’s notes
Charles Crofts (1871-1950) was a major figure in the trade union movement. He was joint advocate for the Commonwealth Council of Federated Unions in the 1926-27 standard hours case, resulting in the in-principle acceptance by the Commonwealth Arbitration Court of the 44-hour week. Richard Crouch (1868-1949) joined the Labor Party on the encouragement of James Scullin. At the time of the conference he had just been elected President of the Victorian branch. His presidential address was a plea for national unity. Mary Rogers (1872-1932), apparently the only woman delegate, was a distinguished community and political worker and was secretary of the Labor Women’s Organising Committee from 1925 to 1932.
