Summary
Alternative Name: Button
May Day badge, promoting national independence and socialism.
May Day, the 1st of May, is International Workers' Day, It is a celebration of working classes and labour. In Australia, it is usually celebrated by a march on the Sunday closest to the 1st May, although Labour Day is celebrated on a different date with a public holiday.
Part of collection of badges collected by Jim Cooper, a veteran member of the Building Workers' Industrial Union (NSW Branch) and Union and political activist before his death in 1984. His daughter passed the badges on to Alf Zeeno, ex-secretary of the BWIU, with a request that they be donated to the museum.
Physical Description
Round red badge with black text.
More Information
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Collection Names
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Collecting Areas
Public Life & Institutions, Working Life & Trades, Politics & Society
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Acquisition Information
Donation from (Estate of) Jim Cooper, 14 Aug 1990
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Place & Date Used
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Inscriptions
Text: NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE AND SOCIALISM/MAY DAY.
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Type of item
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Overall Dimensions
3.7 cm (Width)
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Keywords
May Day, Political Protests, Socialism, Colonialism, International Relations, Working Life, Badges
