Trades Hall

A Trades Hall is an English term for a building where trade unions meet together, or work from cooperatively, as a local representative organisation, known as a Labor Council or Trades Hall Council. The term is commonly used in England, Scotland and Australia.

They are sometimes colloquially called ''the worker's parliament''.

Famous quotes containing the words trades and/or hall:

    “It is the best of all trades to make songs, and the second best to sing them.”
    —Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953)

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    His hearth the earth,—his hall the azure dome;
    Where his clear spirit leads him, there’s his road,
    By God’s own light illumined and foreshadowed.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)