The Eight hour day. 24 October 2010

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Title

The Eight hour day. 24 October 2010

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Alexander Turnbull Library

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TAPUHI

Description

In four frames a man furiously slashes long grass, forks the resulting pile, sweats over the lawnmower and in the last frame takes his hat off to a tombstone that commemorates 'The eight hour day.' Labour Day is on the 4th Monday in October which this year means 23rd October. Labour Day commemorates the struggle for an eight-hour working day. New Zealand workers were among the first in the world to claim this right when, in 1840, the carpenter Samuel Parnell won an eight-hour day in Wellingto...

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Date created

2010

URL

http://natlib.govt.nz/records/23105439

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Eight-hour movement / Labour Day

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