Sydney. Australian Workers' Union. Until Sep 1892 was titled Hummer, then Worker until Nov 1913. From July 2, 1894 for three weeks during the elections, known as The daily worker. From 1892-1893, half of the paper was published in Brisbane, half in Wagga. From July 1893, published in Sydney. Publication suspended Feb - Aug 1897. 1974 onwards see S997

Office and subject files consisting of minutes; annual reports and financial records; circulars; membership register; press cuttings and press releases; historical and printed material. Includes records of predecessor the Associated Country Sawmillers of NSW, Divisions and Branches, and records related to the Timber Advisory Council and the Timber Development Association.

Certificate of incorporation, memorandum and articles of association, minutes, reports, financial records, correspondence, managing director's files, office files, wages and salary books, employee history cards and records, apprenticeship indentures, investment register, sales figures, printed material, maps and plans.

The deposit consists of Cane Inspector reports and returns, correspondence and a record of sugar cane farmers working for CSR 1905-1906.

Printed material re trade union, socialist and peace movements, including a copy of the epitaph of J P Quaine.

Two illuminated addresses presented to Jesse Gregson on his retirement as General Superintendent of the Australian Agricultural Company, and includes photographs; newspaper cutting and colour photographs of Goonoo Goonoo, and articles of agreement (1875); correspondence by William Young (1852).

Minutes of National Conference (1908-1945), National Council (1922, 1943-1947, 1952-1953), New South Wales State Council (1916-1958), the Amalgamated Ironworkers' Assistants of New South Wales (1905-1909), Sydney Branch (1912-1914, 1940-1943, 1948-1950), Balmain Branch (1936-1945), the Foundry Workers' Joint Management Committee (1936-1944), the Wire Workers' Union of NSW (1928-1938), the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Assistants' Society of South Australia (1908-1914) and the SA Branch (1917-1919), rulebooks and other printed material.

This deposit holds AMWU, South Australian Branch and predecessor records which have been arranged into a central filing system, known as the Lily Papers, in three sections: administration, organisers and historical files. Administration files include minutes, arbitration papers, correspondence, circulars, newsletters, seminar papers and speeches, media releases, reports, press cuttings and films.

Minutes of South Australian executive and branch meetings (1924-1954), financial records, arbitration material, rules and photographs from Adelaide, Quorn, Prospect, Sydney, Meadowbank, Newcastle, Broken Hill and Goldfields Branches.

Sydney. Henry George Union for Social Justice

Company prospectus, financial and sales records, notebook of wages and addresses of staff (Sydney Branch).

Printed material particularly relating to World War II, meat and wool.

Rules, correspondence, minutes and other records from Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia and its predecessors.

Minutes of Sydney Branch (1906-1908), Sydney No. 2 Branch (1916-1920), railway unions conferences (1926-1927) and New South Wales Branch State Executive (1922-1937, 1948-1987), records of Granville, Goulburn, Orange and Lithgow Branches, and correspondence and subject files.

Photographs

Collection of Hill family papers relating to their properties, Mercadool and Fedora, near Parkes, NSW. Includes legal and financial records, agricultural census returns, shearing records, correspondence, plans, rainfall charts and notebooks.

The deposit consists of Commonwealth Steamship Owners' Association classified industrial files 1948-1963; transcripts of proceedings of the Committee of Inquiry into the Stevedoring Industry 1955; transcripts of proceedings for the Waterside Workers Federation Award Amendments to Award re Constitution of Boards of Reference 1954; reports of Royal Commissions; newspaper cuttings; printed material; legal records; and also includes records of the Keilsoil Company. The deposit contains bound industrial files re Waterside Workers Federation of Australia 1913-1945; Federated Shipwrights & Ship Constructors Association of Australia 1935-1938; Federated Ship-painters and Dockers' Union of Australia 1935-1943; Federated Marine Stewards and Pantrymen's Association of Australasia 1909-1942; Australasian Institute of Marine Engineers 1909-1929; Merchant Service Guild / Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers 1908-1942; Marine Cooks Bakers & Butchers Association of Australasia 1908-1942; Federated Shipwrights, Ship Constructors, Naval Architects, Ships Draughtsmen and Boat Builders Association of Australia1922-1923 (1930); The Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners of Australia 1936-1942; Merchant Service Guild of Australasia 1906-1931; Federated Clerks Union of Australia 1936-1942; Federated Seamen's Union of Australasia 1911-1946; Sydney Wharf Labourers' Union1911; Permanent and Casual Wharf Labourers' Union of Australia 1930-1932; North Australian Workers Union 1948.

Minute books of state council, executive and branch meetings; correspondence, subject files re wage claims and awards, financial records, membership and industrial files, press cuttings and publications. Includes records of branches and predecessor the South Australian Government General Workers' Association.

Membership Proposition Forms.

Minutes of the Federal Council (1907 - 1941), minutes of the Federal Council and the Federal Executive Committee (1921 - 1939, 1953), minutes of the management committee (1906 - 1918), balance sheet (1953), log of claims regarding wages and working conditions (1949), Federal President's report to Federal Council meeting (1952).

Industrial files (1920s-1930s, 1952-1987), appeal books (1958), subject files (1907, 1913, 1947-1987), printed material, press cuttings and audio records (21 January 1948).

Federated Mining Mechanics' Association, then Colliery Mechanics' Mutual Protective Association, Hunter River District minutes (1908-1967, except 1927-1930 volume at Z586); Federated Mining Mechanics' and Surfacemen's Mutual Protective Association presscopy letterbook (1911-1920); Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation rules, financial records, membership records for New South Wales Northern District (1916-1918), New South Wales Southern and Western Districts, Queensland, Victoria and Tasmania (1918), New South Wales Central District (1924-1930), and Captain's Flat lodge (1949), mining authorisations (1980, 1991), and printed material. Also includes 'pence books' of Barrier Branch of the Amalgamated Miners' Association (1911-1914) and photographs of Broken Hill dust-storm (1907), commemorative pennants and plaques for International Miners' Organisation conference (1987) and union neckties.

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.

Minutes, petitions, financial records, registers and board determinations of the South Australian Hairdressers' Board, photographs and publications.

Rule books, conference report and photographs, including Federated Saw Mill, Timber Yard and General Woodworkers' Employees Association material.

One file containing maps, correspondence, leases and court documents.

Melbourne. Socialist Party of Victoria. An exponent of International Socialism

Station records, financial records, correspondence and office files relating to stations Athol, Mt Edinburgh, Southlands and Malvern Hills, maps and photographs, wages books, staff ledgers and printed materials.

Industrial case files 1934-1975, arbitration papers 1907-1969, boot trade awards 1909-1963, bank pass books 1942-1950, financial records 1939-1985, correspondence files 1929-1944, minutes of general meetings 1940-1981, minutes of executive meetings 1940-1987.

Minute book containing minutes of meetings re. formation of the Esperance Branch of the Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia, 1924, 1926 and minutes of Branch Committee, Special and General meetings, 1926-1929 (including ); Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia membership register (?members resident in Esperance), 1907-1909; Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia cash book (?members resident in Esperance), 1909-1910. The Esperance Branch of the Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia was formed on 3 March 1926.

Microfilm copy of the transcript of proceedings in the application of HV McKay for an order under the Excise and Tariff Act (Harvester Case) to the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration.

Minutes of Annual Conference, Federal Council and Executive Committee (1907-1986), copies of Victorian Branch (1958-1963) and Coast District (1954-1956) minutes, industrial files, Federal Council membership roll (1909-1932), correspondence, financial records and printed material.

Minutes of the SA Liquor Trades Employees' Union and the Federated Liquor and Allied Industries Employees' Union of Australia SA Branch (1907- 1912, 1918-1948), correspondence, financial records, membership lists for SA, Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales (1907-1911), arbitration files, photographs, lapel badges and rosettes. Minutes (1920-1958), financial records and membership records of the Port Pirie Branch of the Hotel, Club, Restaurant and Caterers' Employees' Union of South Australia.

Management Committee minutes (1971-1979), subject files, industrial files, rule books, and workers' compensation legal case files.

Official Bulletin issued by the strike committee, Brisbane, 1912, report of the All Australian Trade Union Congress, February 1930, The Worker, 1908, 1910, 1922, 1929.

Minute Book of the Factory Employees Union of Australasia December 1909 - December 1910; also containing letters and notices of meetings, ballot count for election of officers January 1908 (pp 114), newspaper cuttings and photographs of Alf Carter, General Secretary (pp 111-113), pamphlet and postcard.

Research papers for his project on the Monaro region adjacent to the Australian Capital Territory published in his book Discovering Monaro - A Study of Man's Impact on his Environment (1972); papers and personal records relating to his career and involvement in universities and research projects in the UK, Africa and Australia; records re the Buganda Mission in Uganda; monographs and offprints; family correspondence and photographs; correspondence with C R Badger & others; catalogue and printing blocks; academic gown.

Microfilm copy of the minutes of evidence and proceedings of New South Wales Royal Commission on Earth Subsidences at Newcastle, 6-20 February 1908.

Share and dividend registers

Minute books, correspondence, industrial agreements, rule book, circulars, financial records, papers re State Electricity Commission of Victoria (1948-1953) and equal pay campaign (1967).

This deposit contains executive minutes, national council minutes, records of conference proceedings, office files and rules. It contains records of organisations connected with the Administrative and Clerical Officers Association namely the High Council of Commonwealth Public Service Organisations, the Joint Council of Australian Government Employee Organisations (CAGEO) and predecessors, the Clerical and Professional Association and the Commonwealth Fifth Class Clerks Association.

This deposit includes minutes of meetings of the SAIT executive, minutes of meetings of smaller organisations in South Australia including the Barossa Teachers' Association (1908 - 1978), the Kingston Area Teachers' Association and the Primary Teachers' Association.

Microfilm copy of membership ledger (subscriptions), 1908 - 1916 and members ledger, 1916 - 1955.

Minutes 1908-1913, 1916-1928, correspondence 1939-1943, arbitration material 1922-1926, logs of claims and awards material 1957-1960, and rules. Also includes minutes of the Ready-made Clothing Trade Employees' Association of South Australia which was formed at the instigation of the South Australian Branch of the Federated Clothing Trades of the Commonwealth of Australia Industrial Association of Employees in March 1912 and was dissolved in May 1913.

Microfilm copy of certificate of registration, rules, membership list, minutes of meetings, including minutes of the Peterborough and Whyalla sub-branches.

This deposit consists of records from the Brisbane and Townsville Offices of the Australian Mercantile Land and Finance (AML&F) Company Limited and records from The Australian Estates Co Ltd Brisbane Office relating to Warrong Station. The AML&F Brisbane Office records include general office ledgers 1908-1940, a cheque register 1952-1955, and from the Wool and Produce Department, general ledgers 1925-1940, Individual Ledgers 1920-1940 and cash books 1931-1941. The Townsville Office collection comprises general ledgers 1924-1938 and a securities register 1920-1941. Records relating to Warrong Station consist of Journals 1917-1929, ledgers 1917-1929 and statements of cheques drawn, correspondence and invoices 1925-1929.

Minutes, correspondence and subject files, financial records, staff record and wages books, legal records, plans, advertising literature and papers. Includes material relating to Tooheys Ltd.

Minute books, rules, financial and arbitration records, and levy books.

Minutes of Branch meetings, 1924-1979; correspondence and industrial files, 1947-1973; membership records, 1939-1953; reports, some from Australian Stevedoring Industry Board, 1945-1962; press cuttings, 1937-1952; historical material (photocopies of notices, press cuttings, handbills, members’ licences, etc.), 1908-1953; Job Delegates and Gang Leaders Association minutes and correspondence, 1956-1975; Branch Disciplinary Sub-Committee records, 1945-1954.

Minute books, membership, financial and arbitration records, contribution books, rule books, royal commission papers and press cuttings. Includes register of strike pay payments and register of colliery members.

Minute books. Includes records of predecessors Amalgamated Engineering Union South Australia branches and Boilermakers' Society of Australia, Port Augusta Branch. See also the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union and the Federated Ironworkers Association of Australia (Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Assistants Society of South Australia).

Minute books, correspondence, financial records, membership records, awards and arbitration material, reports and rule books. Includes records of predecessors the Western Australian Typographical Industrial Union of Workers, the Metropolitan Female Printing Employees' Union of Workers of Western Australia, and the Newspaper Industry Union of Workers.

Includes station store ledgers, monthly returns, station returns, weekly reports, cash books, rough diaries, some staff records, shearing records, correspondence including letterbooks, rainfall records, and a small number of building plans.

Minutes of the Newcastle Coal Trimmers' Federal Union and the Waterside Workers' Federation, Newcastle Coal Trimmers' Branch, 1909-1950; financial records, 1951-1956; contribution books, 1927-1937; list of members, 1959; arbitration material, 1917, 1945.

Photographs, certificates and other display items from the NSW Branch's Board Room in the Sydney Trades Hall on the retirement of J A Weir as Secretary in March 1986. Includes one photograph of Saw Mill and Timber Yard Employees' Union 1909.

Textile Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia records mainly from 1992 to 2005, including unfair dismissal cases (employees name and firm listed), textile awards, liquidation records of businesses, skill level dispute (1994), enterprise bargaining and agreement, industrial relations, wage increases (a history of, 1974-1979), occupational health and safety, equal employment (item 735), redundancy, education, disputes, campaigns (including tariff and outworker campaigns), work cover, mortality fund correspondence (2000-2002), clothing and trade awards (1926-1998) and audiovisual material. There are also some records from preceding unions, the Australian Textile Workers' Union, Australian Boot Trades Employees' Federation (Victorian Branch) and Clothing and Allied Trades Union of Australia (Federal Council). There are also records of the Apparel Trades of Australia (1980s).

Australian Boot Trade Employees' Federation, Tasmanian Branch was also known as the Hobart Sub-Branch of the Victorian Branch, or the Hobart Division the Hobart Branch as well as the Tasmanian Branch. Minutes (1913-1950), correspondence, financial and membership records (1909-1963), determinations of the Hobart Sub-Branch (1926-1930), claims for mortality (funeral) allowances (1917-1951, 1955-1961), and minutes of the Federal Council and Federal Executive (1927-1937)

Photographs of Fiji from an employee of the Colonial Sugar Refinery at Labasa, Fiji, originally in two albums. Removed from the original albums for conservation purposes. Items 1-65 are photographs from a 'Postcard album' and most are printed to be postcards. Items 66-89 were in a separate photograph album.

Microfilm of the Minute Book of the Factory Employees' Union of Australasia containing records of the Union from Dec 1909 until Jan 1911, general notices to members, newspaper cuttings, together with photographs and obituary notices referring to the General Secretary, Alfred Walter Carter.

Minutes (1909-1925), rules, financial records, and subscription books (1917-1953). Includes Tasmanian Branch ledger and subscription book (1920-1952).

Photocopies of annual reports (except 1913), conference reports and minutes.

The records include Branch minutes, Federal Council and Federal Executive minutes, subject files, correspondence files, finanical records, printed records, a diary, meeting attendance book and miscellaneous material.

Includes station returns, financial records, correspondence, ledgers, maps and papers relating to the employment of Aboriginal people. Some records relate to other stations owned by Bovril Australian Estates Ltd: Carlton Hill, Walgra, Legune and Ning Bing Stations.

Minutes of NSW Branch (1965-1976) and federal conferences (1928-1966), certificate of registration for Journeymen Coopers' Society of NSW, awards, rules and badges.

Agreements, minute books, correspondence, financial and legal records, shipping documents, map (Great Northern Railway), and plan of works of the Australian Coking Company

Minute books, wages books, state awards, membership records, correspondence, ACTU Congress material, circulars and publications.

Glasgow. Vol 50 no 645 - Vol 69 no 895 held

Financial records include wages ledgers, correspondence and diaries.

Minutes of general, special and committee meetings of the Powlett River (Wonthaggi) Branch (1911-1954), District Committee of Management (1913-1954) and Combined Unions of Carpenters, Engineers, Engine Drivers and Miners (1917-1948), union rules, correspondence, financial records, membership records for Powlett River and Altona branches (1918-1921), arbitration material and printed material. Also includes 1812 'overman's record', records of Hawdon Pit, Percy Main Colliery, and an envelope containing samples of coal.

Printed material, newsletters and research notes relating to trade unionism and the Eureka Stockade.

Minutes of committee and general meetings, membership registers and contributions books, industrial papers, financial records and photographs of memorial plaque for Henry Bessell.

Monthly federal journal of the Australasian Society of Engineers. Issues held are extensive from Sep 1910 to Jul 1931 with some gaps. Some issues are fragile or damaged, notably Nov 1924. Gap until Jan 1936, from when issues are less frequent. Issues held from Jan 1936 to Sep 1959 with some gaps. Then renamed The Australasian Society of Engineers Federal Journal for which issues held from Nov 1960 (vol. 1 no. 1) to Jun 1986 with some gaps.

Sydney. Complete set of publications designed to present Labor case in election campaign, Sep 1910 to Oct 1910. Forerunner of union-owned Labor Daily

Minutes of Federal Council (1923-1984) and Federal Management Committee (1940-1985 with gaps), rules, general files (1947-1986), industrial files (1913-1990) with index, files relating to the Royal Commission into the activities of the BLF and deregistration proceedings, balance sheets, press cuttings (1970-1989), printed material, posters, photographs, cartoons and sketches by C Stokes and Coxsedge.

Prospectus (1910), memorandum and articles of association (1922), notices of meetings (1910 - 1942), Directors' reports and accounts (1910 - 1948), General Manager's reports (1914 - 1918) and reprints from the Financial Times and Investor's Chronicle (1911 - 1939).

Research papers, including notes on interviews, for Juddery's history of the Administrative and Clerical Officers Association published as White Collar Power: a History of the ACOA (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1980). The contents include photocopies of publications, copies of extracts from ACOA office files and minutes, printed material and correspondence.

Federal Council, Central Committee and Executive minutes (1911-1974), Federal Executive reports and balance sheets (1944-1970), General Secretary's letter books (1910-1914), office files (1911-1974), industrial binders (1965-1980), Federal circulars memos (1917-1939, 1971), arbitration transcripts (1911-1969), AJA History (1910-1913), photographs and printed material. Also includes a minute book for the Northern NSW Sub-District (1913-1926).

Minute books, correspondence, financial records and a history of the union (1858 - 1958).

Publications including pamphlets, periodicals, Acts, awards, government publications, books and rules

Membership and financial records, rule books, branch and sub-branch minutes (Southern Sub Branch and Federated Mining Mechanics and Surfacemen’s Mutual Protective Association, Lithgow Branch), industrial records, case files and transcripts. Includes records of predecessor the Colliery Mechanics Mutual Protective Association, Hunter River District.

Microfilm copy of shearing and wool figures, stock sales, carrying capacity, mortality rates, running costs, and figures for taxes, rates, wages and improvements for the period 1910 - 1957 for the following stations: Summer Vale, Qld; Rippling Water, NSW; Milroy, Qld; Maneroo, Qld; Irish Lords & Mossgiel, NSW; Collymongle; Charlton; Cowga, Qld; Boolcarrol, NSW; Barrata, NSW; Angledool & Llanillo, NSW.

Covering years 1910 - 1917.

Letterbooks, newspaper cuttings, printed material

This deposit consists of speeches, notes and poetry, press cuttings, leaflets and pamphlets relating to the single tax movement.

Minute books, annual reports, membership records, financial records, agreements, Silver Jubilee report and printing blocks.