This clip talks about the conditions that led to the Melbourne Tailoresses Strike of 1882 to 1883. Summary by Adrienne Parr.

This clip, shot outside Melbourne Trades Hall, shows individual shots of key Labor personalities attending the 1928 Victorian party’s Easter conference.

This clip begins with a pan across the delegates to the Victorian Labor Party’s 1928 Easter conference, standing outside Melbourne Trades Hall, and continues with individual shots of key Labor pers

Darley (Frank Harvey) has just shot dead Charles Blake (Campbell Copelin), in Jim Thornton’s cabin. Blake had made Claire Darley pregnant, then refused to marry her.

A union agitator urges Burbridge’s timber workers to strike for better pay, or join the opposition firm, run by Charles Blake.

Darley (Frank Harvey) and Charles Blake (Campbell Copelin) plot the sabotage of Stephen Burbridge’s timber-cutting operations.

In this dramatised sequence, a mining family hears on the wireless that Singapore has fallen to the Japanese.