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The Worker (Wagga, NSW : 1892 - 1913)

Cite this title: http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title747

From Wikipedia

The Australian Worker was a newspaper produced in Sydney, New South Wales for the Australian Workers' Union. It was published from 1890 to 1950.

The newspaper had its origin in The Hummer,[1] "Official organ of the Associated Riverina Workers", a newspaper produced in Wagga Wagga in the depths of the 1890s depression on 19 October 1891. The paper was jointly funded by the Wagga branches of the Amalgamated Shearers' Union of Australasia and the General Workers' Union, which merged in 1894 to form the Australian Workers' Union. The Hummer was the first union-owned newspaper in New South Wales (there was a privately owned pro-labor paper called The Shearers' Record published by Andrews and Taylor), and was born out of the perception that many or most mainstream newspaper proprietors and editors were sufficiently hostile to Unionism to suppress or mutilate letters and news items sympathetic to workers' rights, and to come down heavily on the side of business owners in any dispute. The men behind this bold move, which may have contravened the constitutions of the unions involved, were Wagga Branch officials Walter Head, Arthur Rae and J. J. Mooney. Later a share was sold to the Labor Electoral League.[2] and the last issue 3 September 1892.

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Related Titles

Former
The Hummer (Wagga Wagga, NSW : 1891 - 1892)
Later
The Australian Worker (Sydney, NSW : 1913 - 1950)

Coverage Graph

Each item in the list represents a year and the number of issues digitised for that year. This is presented as Year YYYY : Number of Issues.

  • 1880
  • Decade 1890
    • Year 1892: 6 Issues
    • Year 1893: 27 Issues
    • Year 1894: 47 Issues
    • Year 1895: 51 Issues
    • Year 1896: 48 Issues
    • Year 1897: 27 Issues
    • Year 1898: 53 Issues
    • Year 1899: 52 Issues
  • Decade 1900
    • Year 1900: 52 Issues
    • Year 1901: 50 Issues
    • Year 1902: 52 Issues
    • Year 1903: 53 Issues
    • Year 1904: 54 Issues
    • Year 1905: 52 Issues
    • Year 1906: 52 Issues
    • Year 1907: 54 Issues
    • Year 1908: 63 Issues
    • Year 1909: 101 Issues
  • Decade 1910
    • Year 1910: 102 Issues
    • Year 1911: 100 Issues
    • Year 1912: 101 Issues
    • Year 1913: 84 Issues
  • 1920

Details

Title
The Worker..
Publisher
Canberra National Library of Australia, 2014.
Description
1 online resource : illustrations
Notes
  • Title from title screen.
  • From July 2, 1894 for three weeks during the elections, known as The daily worker.
  • Digitised as part of the "Digitised newspapers and more" which allows access to historic Australian periodicals.
  • From 1892-1893, half of the paper was published in Brisbane, half in Wagga. From July 1893, published in Sydney.
  • Also available in print and on microfilm.
  • Electronic reproduction of
  • Wagga, [New South Wales] : Jas. A. Ross, 1892-1913.
ISSN
2202-8927
Life dates
Vol. 2, no. 1 (Sept. 24 1892)-vol. 22, no. 44 (October 30, 1913)
Former title
  • Hummer (Online) 2203-0700
Later title
  • Australian worker (Online) 2202-915X
Place
Australia New South Wales Sydney

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Acknowledgements

  • Original material contributed by State Library of New South Wales

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