Minutes of the Fire Brigade Employees' Union of New South Wales (1912-1918), the Fire Brigades Association of New South Wales (1922-1942), the New South Wales Fire Brigade Officers' Association (1925-1948), the New South Wales Fire Brigade Employees' Union (1949-1950) and the United Firefighters Union of Australia Open Committee (1959), correspondence, financial records, arbitration material, newspaper cuttings, and printed material.

This deposit contains minute books, General Secretary's correspondence, arbitration material including photographs used as exhibits, membership records, financial records and copies of ships plans, with notes, mainly showing proposed or existing accommodation for Marine Radio Officers. There are also records, including a minute book, of the Merchant Service Radio Telegraphists' Association of Australasia (1912-1917).

Memorandum and article of association, minute book, share register, financial records, agreement and orders issued by the Commonwealth of Australia.

Rough minutes of committee and general meetings (1939-1940, 1963-1981), Secretary's correspondence (W. Peters, K. Cashman, 1957-1980 with gaps), membership and financial records (1940s-1970s), including member cards, contributions books and contributions to various appeals. Also includes some rubber stamps.

Minutes of the Queensland Branch (1913-1981), Toowoomba Branch (1939-1952), membership records (1913-1935, 1952-1953, 1966-1981), correspondence, financial records, arbitration material, and some photographs.

Minutes of general, special and committee meetings, members contribution books and financial records. Also includes members contribution to the Corporation Employees' Association and Benefit Society (1913-1919).

Financial records, annual reports, sales catalogues, wages sheets and staff records, share material, minute books, drawings, agreements and correspondence.

Correspondence, financial records, list of shareholders and plans.

Records of the Gulf Cattle Company Pty Ltd, King Ranch Pastoral Co Pty Ltd, and the Glenroy Pastoral Company. Records include ledgers, journals, financial records, reports and balance sheets, stock sheets and lists of stores on hand for Brunette Downs, map of Brunette Downs (1969), general book of accounts.

Minute books of general and executive meetings (3 volumes).

Minute books, contribution books, financial records and accident pay register.

Notes, press cuttings and files relating to Communist Party of Australia campaigns; papers relating to Richmond municipal politics; poetry and songs, pamphlets and leaflets, printed material on communism theory and international politics.

Minutes (1915-1933), correspondence, financial records, arbitration material, rule books, leaflets and one photograph (1913).

Pamphlets and leaflets published by major Australian political parties (Liberal Party of Australia, Australian Country Party, Australian Labor Party, Communist Party of Australia) including reports, constitution and rules, election material, serials and publications. Also includes a large number of pamphlets relating to communism and socialism in Australia and overseas; trade union publications including rule books, constitutions and conference reports.

Minutes of the Victorian Branch committee of management 1940-1972, minutes of Victorian general meetings 1940-1972, minutes of the Federal Office 1926-1970, minutes of the Central Dilution (Boot Trades) Committee, Department of Labour and National Service 1943, office correspondence files 1951-1974, balance sheets 1942-1951, shop notices 1933-1973, printed material 1919-1975, badges and pendants 1914-1920.

State Secretaries' correspondence 1961-1978, office and administrative papers, arbitration papers 1956-1977, equal pay campaign papers 1957-1963, membership forms 1930-1933, 5 photographs 1972-1973 and printed material.

Minutes of general, sectional and Management Committee meetings (1916-1944), Caretakers' minutes (1938) and membership list (1923).

Correspondence, photographs, press cuttings and printed material about the mandated Territory of New Guinea.

Printed material relating to the Australian Meat Industry Employees' Union including reports, journals, handbills and newspaper extracts.

General file including photograph, photocopy of Gulson family tree, catalogue and price lists, correspondence, newspaper cutting and articles. Financial records, staff records and wages books.

The deposit consists of records of Frank Bollins, NSW Branch President, on his retirement on 5 July 1983. Includes minutes of national and state conferences, branch committee and council meetings, rules, conference and seminar papers, demarcation agreements, NSW Railways papers, correspondence, general union files and publications.

A small collection of printed material relating to the history of regional areas in New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland.

Includes photographs of staff who served in World War 1 and World War 2. Many photographs are unidentified.

Minutes of meetings, correspondence, financial records, membership register (1914-1953), rules, Eight Hour Day posters, photographs from the New South Wales branch, and a ballot box and other items.

Refinery Managers' conference papers, production data sheets and reports.

Minutes, 1914-1925; financial records, 1914-1932; ACTU Congress minutes, 1930-1940; ACTU Arbitration Committee meetings, 1928-1937; a brief history of waterside workers’ unions and the Australian waterfront.

Minutes of the Federal Office.

Arbitration case files and legal opinions on industrial matters, personal memorabilia, Law School notes, published papers, photographs of the 1967 Journalists' Strike and printed material.

Records relating to the Balmain Ironworkers’ Dispute, including minutes of the rebel Balmain branch of the Federated Ironworkers Association, correspondence, financial records, newspaper clippings and printed material.

This deposit contains minutes of Council meetings, executive reports to Council, subject files, award files and dispute files of the New South Wales Public Service Professional Officers' Association from 1923 to 1992. Also includes minutes of Council and annual general meetings of the Department of Public Works Professional Officers' Association from 1914 to 1919.

Copies of 'The Westralian Worker' (1 May 1914 - 29 Dec 1916).

Minutes of Builders' Labourers' Federation Federal Council and Management Committee (1964-1993) and Federal Conference (1965-1979), of the Operative Plasterers' Federation of Australia/Building Workers' Industrial Union Building and Plasterers Division Executive (1924-1989), of the Operative Painters' and Decorators' Union Executive (1946-1979) and Management Committee (1951-1992), of the Federated Engine Drivers' and Firemen's Association Federal and State Council (1927-1991) and of the State Executive of the Construction and General Division of the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union (1992-1995), membership records of the South Australian branch of the Operative Painters' and Decorators' Union (1950-1990), subject and arbitration files, photographs of FEDFA committee (1915), Cyclone Tracy cleanup 1975 and union tour of USSR in 1970s, and audiovisual material (Paul Robeson concert).

A history of the Boilermakers Society of Australia compiled from roneoed extracts and notes taken from the Society's journal. This volume of notes was compiled by John Egerton, as President of the Queensland Trades & Labour Council.

Minute books of NSW Branch General and Special meetings, 1916-1929; minute books of Executive Council and Federal Council meetings, 1915-1952

Material collected by Dr Bob Gollan created by or relating to the Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation. Includes files prepared by his student S V Vining and published material 1891-1957.

This deposit is mainly of records of predecessors to the Australian Services Union - material dated after the amalgamations of 1991-1993 was created by the Australian Services Union. Railway and Tramway Officers' Association minutes of Federal Council (1916-1924) and printed material; Federation of Salaried Officers of Railway Commissioners minute book (1935-1940); Australian Transport Officers' Federation Federal Council minutes (1924-1992), NSW Division minutes (1956-1965), National Executive minutes (1971-1989), 'history' files, national conference papers, arbitration material and printed material; Australian Shipping and Travel Officers' Association 'history' files and printed material; Australian Social Welfare Union administrative and 'history' files including minutes of Federal Council and Executive, correspondence with Branches, arbitration material and printed material.

Records of the South Melbourne District Mordialloc Lodge consisting of minute books, disbursement book, registration book, contribution book, circulars, auditor's records, cash book, membership application forms, printed material and calendars.

Minutes of general, special and Committee of Management meetings (1947-1964), applications for membership (1915-1972) which include name, address, factory where employed, age, branch of trade and signature. There are three runs of cards: one organised alphabetically, another by date 'taken off the records' or 'resignation' from 1964 to 1972 and the third of misplaced resignations.

This collection contains Norm Docker’s private notes and publications collected by him as a Communist Party member and activist. It does not contain records about his activities as the Waterside Workers’ Federation official.

Correspondence including despatches, unofficial letters, confidential letters and telegrams between the company's General Superintendent in New South Wales and the London Court of the Australian Agricultural Company.

The deposit consists of deeds and documents, correspondence, manager's reports and financial papers, ledgers, journals, cash books, salaries book, wages record sheets, drovers book, stock sales registers, and records of the Cunnamulla Agency. Also in the deposit is a stock transaction register of the New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency Company Limited Charleville sub-branch (1959-1962).

Files including minutes, constitution and rules, membership lists, branch financial statements, conference papers, arbitration material and printed material. Includes minutes of Tasmanian sub-branch (1961-1983).

Records of the New South Wales Branch: minutes (1943-1985), copies of Federal Council minutes, subject files including minutes, Telecom Consultative Council material, occupational health and safety issues, files for all NSW town exchanges, outwards correspondence, incoming and outgoing telexes, questionnaires, circulars, arbitration material, photographs, and gadgets to assist Repetition Stain Injury sufferers.

Includes minutes; registration, disbursement and contribution books; calendars and publications.

Microfilm copy of records of the Western Australian branch of the Australian Workers' Union including minutes of Branch Executive (1941-1968), arbitration material, correspondence and financial records. Also includes founding documents of the Foremen and Field Staff (Government Departments) Association 1934.

Books of newspaper cuttings relating to awards and agreements, wool sales, rural industries, shearing industry strike 1945, basic wage enquiry and arbitration matters.

A collection of international publications relating to Communism including material published in Australia, China, Ceylon and the USSR. Includes a 1964 publication by Daphne Gollan.

This deposit includes the union's constitution and rules (1960 - 2000), reports of annual conferences (1950 - 1989), minutes of executive meetings (1916 - 1980), minutes of council minutes (1937 - 1977), verbatim reports of council meetings (1968 - 1975), transcripts and taped interviews for 'Dazzling Prospects' oral history project (1985 - 1986) and histories of the union from 1965 and 1989. Also includes records of local branches: Bowen-Proserpine, Bundaberg, East Moreton, Leichhardt, Lockyer, Lower Burdekin, Northernmost and the North Queensland Teachers' Association (Townsville).

This deposit contains records from a variety of teacher unions in New South Wales including the New South Wales Public School Teachers' Federation, the NSW Public School Assistant Teachers' Association, the Public School and Ex-student Teachers' Association, the Singleton District Teachers' Association, and the Hunter River District Secondary Teachers' Association. Records include minutes, correspondence files and photographs.

Hearing applications, transcripts of proceedings, case files, exhibits, decisions and orders from various tribunals including the Coal Reference Board, Coal Industry Tribunal, Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, Australian Industrial Relations Commission, Board of Reference Queensland, Commonwealth Court, Local Reference Board (NSW), Local Industry Authority and Local Coal Authority. Hearings relate to a wide range of coal mining industry operators, employers, associations, unions and industry awards. Major cases include 35 hour week, National wage case, Workplace Relations Act 1996, enterprise bargaining, open cut and underground work models, staff work value, superannuation, leave entitlements, unfair dismissal and strikes. Includes 8 VHS video cassettes, 4 audio cassettes, several 3.5” floppy disks and a microfiche copy of Coal Industry Tribunal transcripts and index (summaries) 1956 - 1983.

This deposit consists minutes of the Governing Council of the Institute and its predecessor (1916-1982), correspondence, circulars, award files and subject files.

Financial records

Financial records, minutes, files and reports, files relating to Ellis Scott Pty Ltd, correspondence, Employee's Provident Funds records, accident reports, market reports, salaries notebook, wage sheets and cards.

The prescription books are registers recording medications dispensed by the pharmacy on a daily basis. The details recorded include date dispensed, name and address of customer, and the pharmaceutical preparation or drugs dispensed. There are name indexes in the front of each volume. From 1952 to 1963 there is a second run of registers for medications dispensed under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Act.

The records of this deposit were created by the separate unions prior to their amalgamation and have been listed under a section for each union and for combined printed material. Records of the Amalgamated Engineering Union include certificates of registration, alterations to rules and related documents, financial and membership records, Divisions No.2 and No.3 files, arbitration transcripts and awards and newspaper cuttings. Records of the Sheet Metal Working Agricultural Implement & Stovemaking Industrial Union of Australia consist of Queensland Branch minutes of management committee, general and special branch meetings, 1965-72. Records of the Boilermakers' & Blacksmiths' Society of Australia include minutes of branch and executive meetings of the Brisbane Branch, minutes of Queensland State Committee, State Committee and Brisbane Branch files, Federal Council circulars, financial records, superannuation record sheets, members' contribution book, Mary Kathleen sub-branch records, reports and press cuttings, arbitration transcripts and conference material.

Microfilm copy of 'Sidelights on Two Referendums, 1916-1917' which comprises extracts from Henry Boote's letters to his brother, Will, mainly during the referendum years, 1916-1917, but dating from 1911 when Boote became leader and feature writer of the Australian Worker. Included, also, is an historical record of Mr Boote, pp. 88-94.

Microfilm copy of share registers, securities register and fixed deposit ledgers

Minutes of meetings (1930-1957), correspondence, contribution book (1916-1917, 1945-1949), financial records and rule book.

Minutes, reports, correspondence, financial and membership records, arbitration records, rules, press cuttings and publications. Includes records of Ballarat and Melbourne Divisions.

Humes Limited and combined companies’ records – certificates of incorporation and registration, 1923-57, documents and patents, circa 1916-55, balance papers, 1951-2, financial and statistical schedules, 1937-59, minutes of note transfer committee, 1956-7, photographs and printed material
Hume Steel Limited – income tax returns, 1946-7, share transfer journal, 1932-5, register of directors, 1932-56
Steel Pipe and Lining (Humes) Limited – balance papers and taxation returns, 1952-9, register of directors, 1932-56
Hume Pipe Company (Australia) Limited – reports and correspondence re. development of cement and bauxite, 1930-2, Kiewa contract files, 1956-9, salaries books, 1927-1936, share records, 1923-37
Hume Pipe (Far East) Limited (later Hume Industries (Far East) Limited) – correspondence and reports re. company, staff, withdrawal and claims for losses due to Japanese occupation, 1940-7, register of directors, 1930-59

Federated Miscellaneous Workers' Union: minutes of Queensland State Council (1957-1964, 1977-1982), Queensland Branch (1921-1930, 1940-1971, 1983-1986), Ambulance Branch (1972-1976), Foodstuffs and Allied Industries Branch (1969-1978), Leather and Allied Trades Branch (1968-1975), correspondence, financial records and copies of Amalgamated Shearers' Union tickets (1890-1895); Federated Jewellers, Watchmakers and Allied Trades Union of Australia: minutes of Queensland Branch (1934-1983); Australian Leather and Allied Trades Employees' Federation: minutes of Queensland Branch (1946-1964); Milling, Baking, Cooking and Allied Trades Employees' Union of Queensland, then Amalgamated Foodstuffs Union of Queensland: minutes (1919-1939, 1949-1950, 1955-1957) and printed material.

Annual reports and proceedings of Pastoralists' Union of New South Wales and Graziers' Association of New South Wales.

Publications particularly of New South Wales Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works relating to proposed railways, also reports of grading and marketing of beef and Nelungaloo Pty Ltd appeal book.

Memoranda and articles of association, copies of minutes, agenda and other papers of various Boards and Committees, reports, financial records and printed material re Metal Manufactures Ltd, Cable Makers Australia Pty Ltd and Austral Bronze Copper Ltd. This deposit consists of the records of R J Pearson and are related to his employment with Metal Manufactures Limited and its subsidiary companies. Also found in this collection are records concerned with the management of the MM Group and Metal Manufactures Staff Provident Fund Pty Ltd.

Correspondence, reports, memoranda and files relating to the management of Metal Manufactures Ltd and Austral Bronze Pty Ltd.

Issues from Jul 1917 to Dec 1917.

Minutes including those of the Executive, Disputes Committee and joint meetings with other bodies (1917-1973), and the Southern Tasmania Eight Hours Committee (1920-1938).

Printed material, notably publications of the Australian Council for Civil Liberties, and includes a constitution, enrolment form and annual report. Also includes books by W G Burchett and T A Coghlan.

Australian Housing Research Council papers; Land and Housing Conference papers; Building Research and Development Advisory Committee papers; National Building and Technology Centre Advisory Board of Management papers; Land Commission papers; Department of Urban and Regional Development papers; South Australian Land Commission correspondence; Hunter District Water Board papers.

Minutes of the board, minutes of commitee of reference, memorandums and articles of association, subject and staff files, annual reports, property reports, financial records, year books and staff newsletters, tapes of AGM, and records of company predecessors: Grazcos Co-op Ltd, Graziers Co-op Shearing Co Ltd, Farmers and Graziers Co-op Ltd, Farmers and Settler's Co-op Grain Company Ltd. Also includes share register of Ray Bladwell & Co Ltd.

Minutes; subject files re arbitration and awards, membership and subscriptions, correspondence, reports, wage cases; office bearers; grievances and branch records, Royal Commissions and legal education; constitution and rules, press cuttings and records re the ACT Branch. Includes records of predecessor the Commonwealth Legal Professional Officers Association.

Amalgamated Engineering Union membership and contribution cards, award and printed material.

Ledgers

Minutes of National Council (1976), rule book, arbitration material, election results (1960s-1970s), badge and wooden plaque.

Correspondence with branches and Public Service Board, subject and arbitration files, annual conference papers, newspaper cuttings, photographs of mobile lunch unit, and printed material.

'Some experiences of a Queensland station manager' and other articles in The Pastoral Review (1943-1945), written by Mr Thomas L Armstrong as manager, Corona Station, 1917-1941, and photographs of the Armstrong family members and various station activities over the same period. The photographs show the homestead, family pets, horse-riding, swimming in the creek, family holidays at Manly, station jackeroos, Aboriginal stockmen, the Chinese cook, a governess, the dog-trapper, race meetings, horse sales, cattle, drought feeding sheep, lamb marking, bullock teams (1919), Mitchell grass after rain, loading 'bush hay', travelling to Headingly by car, a storm-damaged windmill, and other facets of station life, mainly during the 1920s and 1930s.

This deposit includes Tasmanian Teachers' Federation executive minutes (1949 - 1970), Australian Teachers' Federation executive minutes (1950 - 1969), Tasmanian Teachers' Federation council minutes (1944 - 1969), Tasmanian Teachers' Federation correspondence (1954 - 1970) and Northern Tasmanian Teachers' Association minutes (1918 - 1929).

Minutes of meetings (1920 - 1945, 1963 - 1995) correspondence and election files, also minutes of meetings for Toowoomba Sub-Branch (1918 - 1930, 1964)

Salaries and wages books

This deposit consists of the personal files of JR Cleworth, General Secretary of AIMPE during 1965-68, 1970-71,1972-75. The files are collections of papers which include correspondence, minutes, notes and transcripts, arbitration material, printed material, pamphlets and newspaper cuttings.