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Two-thousand steelworkers collect their final paycheques and walk out of Newcastle’s BHP steelworks for the last time. Men break down and cry. Many have laboured here all their working lives.
This 1924 gramophone recording of W Rimmer’s ‘Honest Toil March’ was recorded in London, performed by the Australian Newcastle Steelworks Band.
Summary by Matthew Davies