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Australian Workers' Union microfilm deposit 1
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Executive Council correspondence

Includes continued report on deputation to Minister for Labour and National Service re section 170 and regulation 139, South Australian report 1965, decision re election of Queensland Branch delegates, Strappers Award, list of compensation claims and Australian Labor Party confidential report to State Executive on Federal Executive meeting.

Legal case papers

Topics include: judgement de Vos versus Daly, J Schmella, FG Baxter libel, Bielski on New Australians, Heslop on Communist accusation and investigations into Tasmanian branch (MacQueeney, Lacy, Ferguson and Lacey). Also includes Australian Labor Party correspondence 1958-63.

Legal opinions and legal case papers

Topics include: Shearing Industry Award, Executive Officers, Wineries Award, President's casting vote, Brisbane Truth libel case, joint ventures, ballot boxes, holidays, compulsory unionism, 'Midkin' and 'Wurrock' cases, W Casemoor, Hoison, secret ballots, registration of rules, Killen, Lodgdale Shed, Anderson appeal, Bowen, Bowden, Atkinson versus Lamont, WB Hay and Samuel Hall.

Executive Council correspondence

Includes opinions Loveday re membership qualifications, E Miller re Rule 41, McGarvie re long service leave in Graphic Arts and Metal Trades, report of conference on pastoral workers' log of claims, report on deputation to Minister for Labour and National Service re section 170 and regulation 139, and printed material.

Australian Workers' Union and other minutes of meetings

Contents: 1. Minutes of Bourke Branch meetings 1906 - 1912, 2. Minutes of Tasmanian Branch meetings 1918 - 1924, 3. Minutes of Construction Workers' Section Conference 1916, 4. Minutes of Pastoral Industry Conference 1920, 5. Annual report of Amalgamated Workers' Association of Queensland 1912, 6. Minutes of Amalgamation Conference 1912 - 1913, 7. Minutes of Amalgamated Mining Employees Association of Australia/Federated Mining Employees of Australia meetings including Mount Boppy Goldmine Truckers and Boodlers 1910, 8. Amalgamated Miners' Association of New South Wales Executive Committee meetings 1912 - 1915, and 9. Federated Mining Employees of Australia and Australian Workers' Union Mining Department meetings 1915 - 1918.

Queensland Shearers' Union and Amalgamated Workers' Association of Queensland minute books

Contents: 1. Queensland Shearers' Union handwritten minute book 10 Dec 1887 - 26 Jun 1892, 2. Queensland Shearers' Union typescript minute book 10 Dec 1887 - 26 Jun 1892, 3. Amalgamated Workers' Association of Queensland Brisbane Branch and District Committee minute book 19 Jan - 11 Feb 1913, 4. Amalgamated Workers' Association of Queensland Annual Conference minute book 1912 - 1913, 5. Amalgamated Workers' Association of Queensland Annual Conference rough minutes 1913.

Australian Workers' Union microfilm deposit 1

  • AU NBAC M44
  • Deposit
  • 1887 - 1968

Minutes of Queensland Shearers' Union (1887-1892), Australian Workers' Union Annual Conference (1896- 1968), Executive Council (1902-1968), Central Branch (1899-1944), Bourke Branch (1906-1912), Tasmanian Branch (1918-1924), The Worker Board of Control (1895-1957) and the Amalgamated Workers' Association of Queensland (1912-1913). General correspondence, legal opinions and records of the People's Printing and Publishing Company, Westland Broadcasting Company, Amalgamated Mining Employees Association of Australia and the Amalgamated Works Association.

Australian Workers' Union