National Anti-Sweating League
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The National Anti-Sweating League is the name adopted by two groups of social reformers in Australia and Britain at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Both campaigned against the poor conditions endured by many workers in so-called Sweatshops and called for a Minimum wage.
Australia
The National Anti-Sweating League was inaugurated in Melbourne on 29 Jul 1895, with Rev. A. Gosman as president, Samuel Mauger as secretary, and Alfred Deakin as treasurer.[1] Vida Goldstein was another member.[2] Their efforts resulted in wage regulation via the Factory Act of 1896.[3]
Britain
The National Anti-Sweating League was an all-party pressure group formed in 1906 with a 3-day conference in the Guildhall, London.[3][4] 341 delegates representing (via trade unions) some two million workers attended.[3] Notable members included R. H. Tawney,[3] Mary Reid Macarthur, and Lady Astor[5] As a result of the campaign, the Trade Boards Act 1909 was passed, with boards modelled on those in the state of Victoria, Australia, following the 1896 Act.[3]
See Also
References
- ^ Race Mathews (1993) Australia's First Fabians: Middle-class Radicals, Labour Activists and the Early Labour Movement Cambridge University Press ISBN 0521441331
- ^ Lees, Kirsten (1995) Votes for Women: The Australian Story St. Leonards: Allen & Unwin, p. 145
- ^ a b c d e Sheila Blackburn (1991) The Historical Journal 34 (1) 43-64 "Ideology and Social Policy: The Origins of the Trade Boards Act"
- ^ Daily Mirror 18 October 1906
- ^ Daly Mirror 5 November 1919
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