Eastern Goldfields Trades and Labour Council

The Eastern Goldfields Trades and Labour Council was a trades and labour council (TLC) based in the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia.

The first Western Australian trades and labour council conference had been held in Coolgardie in 1899.[1] The Eastern Goldfields was the council for trade unions in the goldfields in Western Australia.[2] It attempted to mediate and act for a range of trade unions based in Kalgoorlie-Boulder and nearby localities.[3][4]

It was an organiser of social events such as eight hour day celebratory picnics at Mungari.[5][6]

References
  1. "W. A. Trades' Union Congress". Kalgoorlie Miner. Western Australia. 6 April 1899. p. 7. Retrieved 24 January 2020 – via Trove.
  2. Oliver, Bobbie; Curtin University of Technology. Australia Research Institute (2003), Unity is strength : a history of the Australian Labor Party and the Trades and Labor Council in Western Australia, 1899-1999, API Network, Australia Research institute, Curtin University, ISBN 978-1-920845-00-1
  3. "TRADES AND LABOUR COUNCIL". Western Argus. Western Australia. 24 December 1918. p. 14. Retrieved 24 January 2020 – via Trove.
  4. "TRADES AND LABOUR COUNCIL". Western Mail. Western Australia. 21 July 1900. p. 12. Retrieved 24 January 2020 – via Trove.
  5. "EASTERN GOLDFIELDS TRADES AND LABOUR COUNCIL". Western Argus. Western Australia. 29 October 1918. p. 7. Retrieved 24 January 2020 – via Trove.
  6. Layman, Lenore (April 1989), "Labour's annual holiday: eastern goldfields eight hours demonstrations, 1900/ 1914 [Paper in: Layman, Lenore and Stannage, Tom (eds). Celebrations in Western Australia]", Studies in Western Australian History (10): 93–99, ISSN 0314-7525
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