Historical information

Members of the Victorian Coal Miners Association, were locked out of the Jumbunna Coal Mine in 1903. The book charts the long battle between capital and labour that lasted seventy weeks.

Significance

Significant to union history - particularly the Victorian Coal Miners Association - and industrial action.

Physical description

Paper; book.

Front cover: old black and white picture of miners with their banner; white text.

Inscriptions & markings

Front cover: author name and title.