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May Day badge promoting international friendship and peace, Australia.
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 and white badge, with red map of Australia and white text.

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