Agent TypeOrganisationActivities & OccupationsTrade union peak bodiesHistoryWhile there is some evidence of earlier attempts to organise a council of unions in the Castlemaine district, been established shortly before the First World War, and was sustained for many years by a flourishing local labour movement despite Castlemaine's failure to develop as a major provincial industrial centre. In common with some other provincial Trades and Labour Council's - Wonthaggi, Wangaratta, Maryborough - Castlemaine entered a steep decline during the late 1950s, and in 1978 was intergrated with the Bendigo Trades and Labour Council.Search records of this agent
