Walking through Trades Hall is like taking a ghost tour through Melbourne's union history.NEVER mess with a typist!
Above the main staircase, near a mural commemorating the architects of the eight-hour day campaign, four bullet holes pepper the wall.
According to Trades Hall legend, the bullet holes are bloody reminders of a Typographical Society ballot gone horribly wrong....
UPDATE! - Oh, all right. I checked, and typists probably wouldn't be included in a typographer's union at all (typography - the art or process of printing with types - Macquarie). You can mess with me if you want...
Is it just me or does underpress not have the same ring to it as underbelly?
ReplyDeleteNow we know that Mokbel and 'Chopper' Read just learnt at the feet of the typographical criminal kings of yesteryear!
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