Badge - Barrier Industrial Council, Night Shift, Broken Hill, Feb 1988
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
Feb 1988
Numbered membership badge of the Barrier Industrial Council, the trades and labour council for the mining town of Broken Hill, New South Wales, for the night shift, February 1988.
Each quarter of the year, on the second Tuesday of the middle month, all unionists have to wear a specially struck badge to prove financial membership of a union. Different badges are issued for each shift in the mines and for town workers. Round tin plate badge with plastic face and horizontal pin and catch on the reverse. Face has an orange border with white text and the base of the border is a white box with orange text.
In the centre is the black and white image of a building and black number printed above it.
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Identification
- Candidate id
- mv-269314
- Museum object number
- SH 921573
- Source note
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