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Comrades Bar

514 Swanston St, Carlton

Tel:9347 9024

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Run by the Electrical Trades Union, whose offices are next door, this bar is a tribute to the eternal struggle of the worker.

Photos pay homage to struggles across the ages - from the miners' strike in 1903 to the Richmond Secondary College demonstrations.

A stained-glass Eureka flag shines down on to the bar which is dedicated to Neville Hill, a veteran pacifist and union organiser.

The bar was built by blacklisted union labor and all of the timber for the bar came from the one redgum tree.

The bar is strictly non-profit as all the money made here goes to ETU members services. (In 1999, the first quarter profits went to paying their ambulance subscriptions.)

As the plaque in the bar reads: "Drink at the bar in the true spirit of unionism. Talk of struggle and the might of workers and never, never give in."


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