Minutes of Fremantle Lumpers' Union and Waterside Workers' Federation Fremantle Branch, 1929-1938, 1957-1970, 1983-1997; correspondence and subject files, 1986-1997; membership records, 1965-1997; documents concerning arbitration and industrial matters including Royal Commission into alleged payments to maritime unions, 1974-1996; financial records, 1970-1996; and printed material, 1961-1995. Also includes minutes of Fremantle Tally Clerks' Union, 1953-1957; Seamen's Union of Australia, 1981-1992; Shipboard Committees, 1980s-2000s; Fremantle Port Authority Combined Unions Association, 1980-1992; records of the Federated Ship Painters' and Dockers' Union, WA Branch and the Amalgamated Seamen and Dockers' Union of Western Australia; and a MV Koolinda plaque.

Minutes of Shipboard Committees and Port Committee meetings,1960-1984; correspondence/subject files, 1958-1986; press clippings, 1958-1978.

Federated Seamen’s Union/Seamen’s Union of Australia Sydney Branch records, 1907-1980; Seamen’s Union of Australia Shipboard Committees papers, 1952-1990; financial records, 1958-1970; industrial awards, 1950-1982; minutes of stopwork meetings, 1957-1969; arbitration records, 1969-1976; industrial files, 1930-1967; Sydney Branch membership records, 1932-1987; correspondence/subject files, 1950-1985; Sydney Branch minute books, 1955-1980; Newcastle Branch minute book, 1933-1947; other branch minute books, 1967-1979; Maritime 100 Club financial records, 1972-1975; Firemen and Deckhands’ Union of NSW industrial awards and agreements, rules, newsletters and circulars, 1922-1980; Marine Drivers’ and Motor Coxswains’ Association of NSW correspondence, 1940-1967; NSW Dredge and Maritime Services Board Employees’ Association minute books, membership records, correspondence/subject files, 1918-1972; photographs, 1950s-1970s.

Melbourne, Sydney. Official organ of the Federated Seamen's Union of Australasia. Some gaps in holdings. Jun 1913 issue is a photocopy

Minutes of general and council meetings (1945 only), rule books, correspondence on strike and compensation matters, membership records, accounts, newspaper cuttings and political pamphlets (in Urdu script), trade union banner and membership badges. See also Seamen's Union of Australia.

Minutes of South Australian Branch meetings, 1950-1960; correspondence with Federal Secretary, 1950-1958; circulars, 1951-1960; arbitration material, 1950-1965; other Branch material; copies of minutes from Sydney and Melbourne, 1938-1946, 1950-1957; correspondence with South Australian Branch Secretary, 1939-1941, 1943-1945; printed material.

Federated Seamen’s Union of Australasia, Queensland Branch minute books, 1888-1893; Seamen’s Union of Australia, Queensland Branch correspondence, 1945.

Melbourne. Published by the Seamen's Union Rank and File Committee

Correspondence, photographs, newspaper articles, reports, minutes, speeches, travel documents and papers related to the work and personal lives of Della Elliott and Eliot Valens Elliott, particularly Eliot's work as Federal Secretary of the Seamen's Union of Australia between 1941-1978. Also includes a significant collection of material related to the Seamen's Union of Australia including correspondence, reports, photographs and newspaper articles in addition to material related to the Trade Union Equal Pay Committee, Australian Women's Charter, Federated Clerks' Union of Australia New South Wales Branch, Communist Party of Australia, Socialist Party of Australia and communist and socialist movements in Europe and Asia.

Financial records, correspondence, arbitration material, pamphlets and periodicals.

Port Adelaide Tugs (Ritch & Smith Tug Company) correspondence, roster, award and voyage agreements, 1950-1984; ships decommissioned A-Z and correspondence/subject files, 1946-1988 (includes general correspondence concerning Seamen’s Union involvement in the war in South Vietnam).

Melbourne, Sydney. Official organ of the Seamen's Union of Australasia to June 1945 then Official organ of the Seamen's Union of Australia from July 1945. Very good holdings. Most years kept as bound volumes, with index.

Brisbane. Official organ of the Seamen's Union (Queensland Branch)

Minutes of Committee of Management meetings, General Secretary’s correspondence, conference notes, reports, copies of minutes of Stopwork meetings and other miscellaneous papers, 1912-1941, including some correspondence and related papers of William Raeburn and Thomas Walsh; awards, arbitration papers and industrial agreements, 1915-1972; rule books 1880-1963; financial records and reports, 1920-1973; subject files, 1937-1979; administration files, 1956-1979; ship’s plans, 1951-1981; membership books, identity cards and discharge certificates, 1913-1971; SUA banner; press cuttings, 1908-1971; photographs, 1962-1982 (including a photograph of the South Australian Seamen’s Union banner, 1888); cartoons and sketches, posters; labour movement pamphlets and other printed material including New Zealand Seamen’s Union publications. Contains, also, EV Elliot’s notebooks, notes and diaries, 1938-1970 and some personal records of Sydney Branch Secretary, Barny Smith.