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Eight Hour Day Memorial

Melbourne · History

Eight Hour Day Memorial

Photo: Mattinbgn · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

The granite column at Russell and Victoria marks the 1856 win by Melbourne stonemasons for the eight-hour day — among the first anywhere in the world.

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