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Trade union banner - Amalgamated Engineering Union
Title : Trade union banner - Amalgamated Engineering Union Trade union banner - Amalgamated Engineering Union
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Creator : Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (Australia). South Australian State Council
Source : SRG 153/4
Place Of Creation : Adelaide
Date of creation : ca.1970
Additional Creator : Amalgamated Engineering Union. Australian Section
Format : Object
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Description :

Processional banner of the Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU), used by metal trades unions in marches and parades. The one-sided banner contains the mottos, 'Secure employment and wage justice with greater leisure in a peaceful world' and 'educate organise control'.


Dating from the 1970s, this banner would have been carried in Labor Day marches and similar events.

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Amalgamated Engineering Union

Further reading :
Moss, Jim. Sound of trumpets : history of the labour movement in South Australia, Cowandilla, S. Aust. : Wakefield Press, 1985
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