Eight-hour movement
Otago Labour Day Association - Rules
Date: 1897, 1910
From: Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994: Collected papers, personal papers, photographs and ephemera
Reference: 94-106-72/14
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
"... Something about celebrating the eight-hour day..."
Date: 22 October 2004
From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-:Original cartoons. 1986-2011
Reference: A-453-283
Description: Shows two tourists standing on the side of a highway which is packed with Auckland motorists heading north from Auckland during Labour Day holiday. The Australian tourist holding a New Zealand guide book tells his Canadian travel companion that the traffic has something to do with the celebration of the eight-hour day. Inscriptions: Recto - centre right - B/W 186 mm x 133 mm for Leader page Monday 25 CARTOON Pls scan and send to Pix on Hand (Production Pix) [in pencil] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and felt-tip pen on paper, 230 x 340 mm
Days of Action - Notes and draft
Date: 1990
From: Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994: Collected papers, personal papers, photographs and ephemera
Reference: 94-106-72/11
Description: Other Titles - Days of action, May Day, Eight-hour Day, Labour Day Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Research notes and documents on the eight-hour day movement
Date: [Ca 1840-1990]
From: Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994: Collected papers, personal papers, photographs and ephemera
Reference: 94-106-72/12
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Parnell, Samuel Duncan, 1810-1890 : A short narretive [sic]... in connection with the e...
Date: 6 Apr 1890
By: Parnell, Samuel Duncan, 1810-1890
Reference: MS-Papers-0464
Description: Document written by Parnell describing his arrival with the New Zealand Company on the vessel Duke of Roxburgh and his effort to gain acceptance of eight hours as the standard working day for labourers Source of title - Transcribed Accompanying material - Note about memorial by C J Freeman and library list of three publications about Parnell in Turnbull collection Parnell was a carpenter, farmer and labour reformer Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Rev J H Haslam, Apr 1942
Research notes and documents on the eight-hour day movement
Date: [ca 1840-1990]
From: Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994: Collected papers, personal papers, photographs and ephemera
Reference: 94-106-72/13
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Articles and letters to newspapers
Date: [19--]
From: Hunter family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0049-136
Description: Undated manuscripts articles etc. Includes Eight hour working day and George Hunter; Beauty of Wellington compared with Auckland; Names on the earliest subscription list for St peter's Church, Willis Street, 1848; Description of a hitching-post in Lambton Quay and its probable origin from the timbers of the barque Inconstant Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.
Labour Day dreams... "Hole in one." "How about holing a few plants instead..." 25 Octob...
Date: 2010
From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons
Reference: DCDL-0015900
Description: The cartoon is headed 'Labour Day Dreams...' A man has picked up his golfing gear and dreams of a 'hole in one' while his wife hands him a punnet of seedlings and a gardening fork and thinks 'how about holing a few plants instead...' A reference to the usual joke about the Labour Day holiday often being a day of labouring in the house and garden. 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 Wellington. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
"... Something about celebrating the eight-hour day..." 22 October 2004
Date: 2004
From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-: Digital cartoons published in New Zealand Herald
Reference: DCDL-0013010
Description: Shows two tourists standing on the side of a highway which is packed with Auckland motorists heading north from Auckland during Labour Day holiday. The Australian tourist holding a New Zealand guide book tells his Canadian travel companion that the traffic has something to do with the celebration of the eight-hour day. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
The Eight hour day. 24 October 2010
Date: 2010
From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons
Reference: DCDL-0015887
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 Wellington. Both colour and black and white versions of this cartoon are available Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).