Eight Hours Committee badge, 1891

This star-shaped badge would originally have hung from a ribbon linking the bar 8 HOURS COMMITTEE to the badge itself. It is a silver membership badge of the 1891 Eight Hours Committee which co-ordinated the annual Eight-hours Day celebrations.

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Obverse – The centre of the badge features a large number 8 breaking up the word HOURS (the U is below the 8). Around this is the inscription LABOUR RECREATION REST 1891.

Transferred from National Gallery of Victoria, 1976