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ANU Archive Item Open Access ANU Archive Item Open Access First Committee of the No-Conscription Fellowship, MelbournePhotographer: The Swiss StudiosANU Archive Item Open Access ANU Archive Item Open Access Labour Day (44 Hours) - Australian Timber Workers' Union, Victorian Branch No 2, banner and float(2012-09-26) Photographer: Allan StudiosThe highly decorated Victorian Timber Workers’ banner reflects the influence of such socialists as John Curtin, Secretary of the Victorian Branch of the Australian Timber Workers Union, 1911-1915, and Prime Minister of Australia, 1941-1945. An active member of the Victorian Socialist Party prior to the First World War, Curtin was one of many unionists attracted by the possibilities of the One Big Union movement and committed to union reorganisation, as the banner’s slogan ‘One Industry, One Union’ testifies. At each corner of the banner are cameos illustrating the different phases of timber production: tree-felling in the bush, hauling logs to the mill along a bush tramway, cutting logs in a sawmill and removal by rail to metropolitan markets. The central map of Australia supported by a radiating pattern of light suggests that this may have been the work of a Melbourne banner painter named Hennessey, who used a similar device on an equally impressive banner for the Victorian Railways Union.ANU Archive Item Open Access One in, all in. Timberworkers' strike, 1929-30(2012-09-26)Outside Darlinghurst Court House where several timber workers were being tried by Judge Lukin for non-compliance with the Award; 7000 workers attended.ANU Archive Item Open Access Trades Unions' OfficialsPhotographer: not knownPrinted copy of collage of portrait photographs of 81 Victorian union officials including Trades Hall Council officials, Miss Sara Lewis of the Female Hotel and Caterers' Employes' Union and John Curtin, general secretary of the Timber Workers' Union - all portraits are numbered and the names and positions provided in an index belowANU Archive Item Open Access 7000 timber workers demonstrate, one in, all in, 1929-30(2009-09-24T05:42:24Z) Photographer: not knownThe march of timber workers enters Taylor Square from Oxford Street on its way to Darlinghurst Court House where the workers named in the photograph were sent to gaol for varying terms, including Jack Kavanagh and Jock Garden of the Labor Council.