Perth Trades Hall
Coordinates: 31°56′58″S 115°51′46″E / 31.94934°S 115.86289°E The Perth Trades Hall is the Trades Hall building in Perth occupied by various organisations of the Western Australian trade union movement.
The present Perth Trades Hall, at Unity House, 77-79 Stirling Street, was opened on May Day, 2000. It provides offices and meeting rooms for trade unions, the Australian Labor Party and other community and political groups. The Trades and Labour Council (TLC), now known as UnionsWA, relocated in 2007 to the CSA Building at 445 Hay Street, Perth.
Historic former building
Although a Trades and Labour Council (TLC) was established in Perth in 1891, finances to build a trades hall were not available until 1911, when Alick McCallum became general secretary of the Australian Labour Federation, as the TLC was then called.
Design and construction of the original trades hall building was largely due to the efforts of Ernest Henshaw. The three-storey neo-Georgian building was erected at 74 Beaufort Street, the site of Perth’s original Scotch College. The foundation stone was laid by Prime Minister Andrew Fisher on 8 August 1911. The hall was officially opened on 20 April 1912 by Premier of Western Australia, and former trades hall secretary John Scaddan.
In 1985 the building was sold and became the Delaney Gallery. The WA Heritage Council has listed it as Heritage Place No. 8783: Delaney Gallery (Trades Hall). A 2010 photograph in the register shows that the name "Trades Hall" has been reinstated above the portico.[1]
References
- ↑ Image Details - Trades Hall, west elevation at State Heritage Office
External links
- Alex McCallum biography
- State Heritage Register entry, 30 July 2004, at State Heritage Office
- Assessment documentation, 30 July 2004, at State Heritage Office
- New Trades Hall: Officially opened by the Premier. Western Mail, 27 April 1912, p. 50, at Trove
Further reading
- Monk, Ian. (1999) Perth's Trades Hall, 1912-1983. Papers in labour history, No.22 (Dec. 1999), pp.6-20,
- Oliver, Bobbie. (2003) Unity is strength : a history of the Australian Labor Party and the Trades and Labor Council in Western Australia, 1899-1999 Perth WA : API Network, Australia Research Institute, Curtin University. ISBN 1-920845-01-1