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1923 police riot

 * Started in 1923
 * Bad chief commissioner
 * Commissioner name alexander Nicholson
 * Chief not much experience
 * Friends with Chief sec of Vic parliament
 * No pensions anymore
 * Bad conditions
 * Commissioner put special supervisors on the force
 * Pay cut
 * Protest started 1/11/1923
 * Eve of spring racing carnival
 * 24 officers refused 2 go on duty
 * Led by constable William Thomas brooks
 * Has done a petition before with over 700 signatures
 * 24 hours - premier demanded they return (no consequences) - no reaction
 * 24 after that demanded again ( with consequences) - no reaction
 * Riots 3rd -4th of November
 * People being mugged
 * Started @ flinders st- Swanson st
 * Most were crimes of opportunity
 * Police pushed to town hall
 * Trams overturned
 * 3 people killed
 * Most violence attributed 2 Sqizzy Tailor by newspapers
 * Court says it was mostly teen and young adults with no criminal record
 * Special constables called in that wore armbands
 * Usually returned servicemen
 * They were issued an armband, baton, and instruction booklet
 * 600 police fired
 * Government did increase pay in the end
 * Pension re-introduces at the end of the year

Sources
 * http://www.onlymelbourne.com.au/melbourne_details.php?id=6362
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Police
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1923_Victorian_Police_strike
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8 hour day

 * Normal working hours 12-16 hours a day
 * August 18 1955 stonemason society sydney said stonemasons only had 2 work an 8 hour day
 * Would take 6 months
 * Went on strike early
 * Strike started 21 april 1856
 * Marched 2 parliament house
 * Robert owen demanded 8 hour day first (1810)
 * Came up with slogan by 1817
 * Slogan: 8 hour labor, 8 hours rec, 8 hours rest
 * In 1857 women and children grated 10 hour days
 * In 1848 after the French rev French workers got 12 hour days