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 contains branch council and committee minutes, office files, press cuttings, serials and minutes and membership lists of the ACOA ACT Branch Women's Group.

This deposit contains the union's office files mainly industrial material relating to Customs Officers.

This deposit includes subject files, rules, minutes of meetings, correspondence, branch reports and financial records, arbitration and policy documents. Includes records of predecessor and records of the Australian Public Service Association.

This deposit contains minutes of executive council meetings and memoranda to branch secretaries.

Minutes of the Reform Group (1981-1985) and subject files (1976-1985) including a history of the group written by Peter Ellett, one of its founders, and later material about the Public Service Union Action Group (1990-1993). The Reform Group operated at both branch and Federal level and stood rank-and-file progressive candidates in union elections against conservative incumbents, alleged to be supported by the National Civic Council. Also includes a history of the Postmaster-General's Department/Telecom sub-branch delegates' committee covering 1935-1966.

'Advance' was the Eureka Youth League's (EYL) newspaper for Australian Youth in New South Wales and was first published in 1946. In 1948 it was suggested that it join together with 'Youth Voice', which was produced by EYL in Victoria to cover Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania, and form one paper for all of Australia (see Advance no. 16, Apr 1948). Issues held cover years 1946 to 1948.

An official newsletter of the Australian Natives Association.

Papers of Frank Stevens, Industrial Officer for the Air Pilots' Guild of Australia. These papers were gathered by Stevens in preparation for and during the hearing and appeal of the Federal Court case to deregister the Guild.

Sydney. Official journal of the Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association

Australian political pamphlets and serials, including printed material by the Communist Party of Australia and Sydney University Labor Club.

Bound volumes of minutes and agenda papers of the Executive Committee, Branch Committee and Branch Council of the ACT Branch of the Administrative and Clerical Officers Association. Subject files including rules, policies, Branch subcommittee records, financial records, annual reports, membership reports, campaigns and submissions to government. Minutes and working papers of ACOA Federal Executive Committee and Federal Executive, and Council of Commonwealth Public Service/Australian Government Employees Organisations meetings and conferences, minutes and agenda papers of ACTU Migrant Workers Committee and papers relating Simakoff's role as union delegate in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. Also includes publications relating to Aborigines, migrant services and multiculturalism, and Australian Labor Party policy statements 1977 - 1984.

Financial and legal records, including wage books and motel bookings.

Diaries and superannuation files relating mainly to the amalgamation of OT Lempriere and Company Ltd with HH Webb and Company Ltd. Papers relating to subsidiaries and related companies included: Balcomb Industries Pty Ltd, Associated Tin Smelters Pty Ltd, Midmetals Pty Ltd, Labor Funerals Ltd, Motor Funerals Ltd and Waratah Memorial Parks Ltd. Diaries include press clippings, correspondence, reports and extracts from Board minutes.

Issues from Jul 1917 to Dec 1917.

Melbourne. The journal of the Australian National Line

Correspondence records, mill director's reports, financial records of saw mills, and journals of Karangi Sawmilling Co (1937 - 1942)

Correspondence records, financial records, manager's reports, maps of the Northern Territory and Queensland (1898-1922), diary (1884)

Issues 10, 11, 13, 15-20, 22-26, 29, 31-34, 36.

Issues held; nos. 128, 135, 150 and 158 (1963-1964), and one issue (no number) with new title of 'Newsletter' (1964).

First named the Monthly Report from 1889 (see S35 description) to 1934, when it became the 'Monthly Journal and Report', before separating in 1948 so that there was a 'Monthly Report' and a 'Monthly Journal' (S35). The binding of these volumes is entitled 'Monthly Trade Report', however, the title is simply 'Monthly Report'.

Pamphlets and periodicals issued by the Amalgamated Engineering Union. Includes trade manual incorporating the Boilermakers' & Blacksmiths' Society and the Sheet Metal Workers' Union.

Minutes of general, special and committee meetings of the Adelaide branch, 1875 -78, 1882-93; Adelaide No.2 branch, 1912-29, 1933-63; Gawler branch, 1909-11; financial records of the Quorn branch, 1915-26; membership and financial records.

Membership Proposition Forms.

Financial records, Commonwealth Council material re conferences and meetings, membership records, reports, journals and photographs. Includes financial and membership records of Queensland branches: Ipswich Branch, Innisfail Branch, Mt Isa Branch, Woolongabba Branch; New South Wales branches: Ashfield Branch, Bankstown Branch, Belmont Branch, Civic Branch, Hurstville Branch, Mayfield Branch, Newcastle Branch, Portland Branch, Rockdale Branch; Victorian branches: Melbourne No.7 Branch, Preston No.2 Branch, Ringwood Branch, Yarraville Branch; Tasmanian branches: Launceston Branch, Tamar Branch.

Microfilm copy of minutes of the Sydney Branch 1852 - 1859, Melbourne Branch 1859 - 1872, Australasian and Commonwealth Councils of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, later known as the Amalgamated Engineering Union.

Minutes, donation and benefit books, clearance forms and certificate.

Minute books of the Port Pirie, Port Adelaide, Adelaide and Adelaide No. 2 Branches and a Broken Hill Branch contribution book (1889-1892). Includes records of predecessors Boilermakers' Society of Australia, United Society of Boilermakers and Iron Shipbuilders of South Australia, Boilermakers' and Blacksmiths' Society of Australia and the Blacksmiths' Society of Australia.

Minute books of the Sydney District Committee, correspondence, registration and membership records of the Motor Engineers Branch of the Amalgamated Engineering Union.

Issues held; no. 10 (1969) (from the AEU) and vol. 1 no. 5 (Jul 1970) for AEU and BBSA.

Minute books of various branches of the AEU throughout Australia including branches in South Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and Western Australia. Also includes district minute books for South Australia (Port Augusta District Committee) and Queensland (Ipswich District Committee)

Minute books of the following branches: Arncliffe (NSW), Balmain (NSW), Canbbera (ACT), Captain's Flat (NSW), Captain's Flat No.2 (NSW), Central Branch (NSW), Cobar (NSW), Cobar 2nd Branch (NSW), Crows Nest (NSW), Darwin (NT), Dubbo (NSW), Dulwich Hill (NSW), Granville 2nd Branch (NSW), Hume-Mitta, Kiewa (VIC), Lithgow (NSW), Melbourne 11th, Newborough (VIC), North Sydney, Permanent Shift Branch (NSW), Punchbowl (NSW), Refrigeration Branch, Richmond (VIC), Roma (QLD), Rozelle (NSW), Shepparton (VIC), Sydney 11th, Sydney 12th, Sydney 13th, Tamworth (NSW), Werris Creek (NSW), Whyalla (SA) and Yarloop (WA); donation and sick benefit book; and unemployment records of Rozelle Branch members.

Proposition and entrance books, registration books and contribution books of branches within each state.

Minutes of Branch management committee meetings 1987-1988.

Minutes 1988-1990, correspondence 1987-1989, correspondence from the National Council Textile Division 1987-1990, correspondence from the Tasmanian Trades Council 1987-1989, correspondence from the Tasmanian Industrial Commission 1987-1989, workers' compensation inwards correspondence 1988-1990, Australian Electoral Commission inwards correspondence 1988-1990, union returns membership lists for employers 1990-1991.

Minutes, correspondence, conference files, membership records, arbitration files and war-related industrial issues, Commonwealth Secretary's correspondence files, financial records, amalgamation files, property files, Assistant Secretary's papers, reports and circulars, peace movement related material, rules books and constitutions, awards, photographs, banners, memorabilia and printed material. Includes records of predecessors Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society of Australia, Sheet Metal Workers Union, Blacksmiths Society of Australia, Federated Shipwrights and Ship Constructors Association of Australia, Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union, Amalgamated Engineering Union (including Amalgamated Society of Engineers and Amalgamated Engineering Union, Australian Section).

Records of Gilbert Stead (AMWU commonwealth finance and records officer) and of AMWU predecessors including minutes, rule books and constitution, amalgamation files, correspondence, membership and financial records, subject files, reports, position papers, photographs, leaflets and publications. Includes records of Alan Wilson (Amalgamated Engineering Union commonwealth councillor), AMWU national returning office files and predecessors Amalgamated Engineering Union, Stove and Piano Frame Moulders and Stove Makers Employees Union, Tinsmiths and Sheet Iron Workers Trade Society, Sheet Metal Working, Agricultural Implement and Stovemaking Industrial Union of Australia, NSW Branch and the Boilermakers' & Blacksmiths' Society of Australia.

The deposit consists of AEU General Secretary John Garland's papers: subject files, photographs, memorabilia, sound recordings and publications of union and other organisations. Includes records of predecessors Amalgamated Engineering Union and Amalgamated Metal Workers & Shipwrights Union.

Minutes, minutes of apprentices committee, correspondence, industrial and arbitration material, rule books, historical documents, reports, membership "starting books", photographs and certificates. Includes records of the Amalgamated Engineering Union Sydney District and Cumberland Branch, and the NSW Branch of the Federated Moulders (Metals) Union of Australia.

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.

Assistant secretary's files (Ron Arnold) including subject files re Australia-Vietnam Society and peace and disarmament movement, political campaigns and international conferences, diaries, press cuttings, pamphlets and printed material, photographs, postcards and souvenir items. Includes records of predecessors Amalgamated Metal Workers & Shipwrights Union and Boilermakers' & Blacksmiths' Society. Includes a large number of photographs taken in Japan and Vietnam, particularly of damage done by atomic bombs and during Vietnam War. Note that many photographs include graphic content.

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.

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 of South Australian branches of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, Boilermakers' & Blacksmiths' Society of Australia, and the Sheet Metal Working Agricultural Implement and Stovemaking Industrial Union of Australia; membership roll and contribution books of predecessors Federated Agricultural Implement, Machinery & Ironworkers Association of Australia, South Australia Branch and the Sheet Metal Workers' Industrial Union, South Australia Branch.

Minutes of the South Australian State Committee of the Boilermakers' & Blacksmiths' Society of Australia; registration books and proposition and entrance book of the Amalgamated Engineering Union (South Australian Branches).

Arbitration records, register of members out of work (1881-1887), mortality fund register, administration files re Federal Council circulars, rules and agreements, minutes, reports, correspondence, financial records, press cuttings, printed material, photograph and ephemera. Includes records of branches and districts of predecessors Amalgamated Society of Engineers, the Amalgamated Engineering Union, the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society of Australia, and iron ship builders, shipwrights and sheetmetal unions.

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.

Minute books, membership records, correspondence, financial records, industrial papers, reports and rule books. Includes Coastal District and Fremantle Branch records of the Amalgamated Engineering Union and its predecessor Amalgamated Society of Engineers; Kalgoorlie Branch records of Western Australian predecessors West Australian Coach, Car and Rolling Stock Builders' Industrial Union of Workers and the WA Vehicle Builders' Union; and rule books of the Western Australian Plumbers and Sheet Metal Workers Industrial Union of Workers.

Minutes and correspondence, administrative papers, reports, membership and financial papers, NSW State Branch papers of Tom Wright, and printed material. Includes administrative files relating to the amalgamation of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society and the Sheet Metal Workers Union including circulars, rules and procedures, pamphlets, conference material, discussion papers and publicity statements.

Initially titled 'Amalgamated Society of Engineers Monthly Report' from 1889 to 1921. Following renaming of the Society to the Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU) in 1922, the title changed to 'Amalgamated Engineering Union Monthly Report'. From 1935 the journal became the 'Monthly Journal and Report' and from 1949 simply 'Monthly Journal'. When the AEU amalgamated with the Boilers' and Blacksmiths' Society and the Sheet Metal Workers' Union in 1973 forming the Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union (AMWU) the Journal was renamed 'Amalgamated Metal Unions Monthly Journal', and in 1974 renamed again as 'Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union Monthly Journal'. AMWU amalgamated with the Shipwrights' Union in 1979 at which point the journal became the 'Amalgamated Metal Workers' and Shipwrights' Union Monthly Journal, and from July 1980 the 'AMWSU Quarterly Journal'.

This deposit contains records created by A Amos in his capacity as a union official of the Stovemakers' Union 1937-45, Sheet Metal Workers' Union 1945-72, AMWU 1972-76, AMWSU 1976-77. Correspondence, membership registers, office files, conference proceedings, research files and printed material, international publications, records of the AMWSU Women's Committee, Sydney District including minutes, financial records, scrap book of cuttings and photographs.

Sydney. Official journal of the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union. From June 1980 became Metal Worker (S657)

Correspondence with other branches, Australian Labor Party, Director of Posts and Telegraphs (includes photographs of machinery), Postmaster-General, members of parliament, and printed material. Copies of material from the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the Australian Labor Party including rules and conference reports.

Minutes of Tasmanian Branch (1941-1952), financial records, rules and printed material.

Australian Telegraph and Telephone Construction and Maintenance Union/Australian Postal Linesmen's Union: minutes of Victorian Branch (1912-1925), financial records and membership registers; Postal Sorters' Union of Australia: minutes of Victorian Branch (1913-1925) and roll books; Australian Letter Carriers' Association: minutes of Victorian Branch (1915-1925), financial records and membership register; Amalgamated Postal Workers' Union: minutes of Victorian Branch (1925-1943) and annual conferences (1925-1939), financial records, rules, membership records (1925-1928, 1954), correspondence files, arbitration material, photographs of mail sorting and mobile lunch room, drawing of steel clothes lockers and printed material. Also includes small quantity of Victorian Plasterers' Society material.

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

Circulars, reports and submissions to 1973 Australian Post Office Commission of Inquiry and printed material.

Amalgamated Postal Workers' Union files of annual conference papers, correspondence with branches, Postmaster-General's department and Public Service Board, and arbitration case files; Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union files including minutes of PCC [Postal Consultative Council] and TCC [Telecom Consultative Council], arbitration material and transcripts.

Minute books of the NSW Lithographic Association, the Letterpress Printers' Machinists' Industrial Union, the Printing Trades Federation Council and the Amalgamated Printing Trades Employees' Union of Australia. Also includes correspondence re formation of APTEU, book of assets and register of members, certificate of incorporation and rules of the Letterpress Printers' Machinists' Industrial Union of Employees' of New South Wales, contribution cards, badges and publications.

Minute books of predecessors the Victorian Lithographic Printers Employees' Union (formerly the Victorian Lithographic Printers' Society) and financial ledger.

Rule books, circulars, posters and printed material.

New York. Published by the American Association of Scientific Workers

This collection was compiled by Amirah Inglis in the 1980s while researching and writing her book Australians in the Spanish Civil War. It contains research notes, newspaper cuttings, photographs and cassette tapes of interviews with Australians and Britons who served in Spain.

This is a photocopy of Amy McGrath's manuscript on the Balmain dispute, While the Iron was Hot: a brief story of how the Communist tyranny in the Federated Ironworkers' Association was overthrown, 1944 - 1952, together with a record of the ballot forger case, 1950 - 1951.

This volume is an index to documents deposited in the National Library of Australia as MS 8915. MS 8915 comprises 25 files of correspondence, articles, cuttings, reports, minutes, posters and other papers assembled by Greg Weir during twenty years of political activism. A list of the contents of MS 8915 is at http://www.nla.gov.au.virtual.anu.edu.au/ms/findaids/8915.html

Member registers for courts across Victoria; meeting minutes, agendas and business papers; reports; rules; laws; ritual books;
papers relating to annual and official dinners; conference papers; social committee papers; fund management forms; financial papers; sick registers; investment registers; cash books; contribution books; registration books; trustees' ledgers; correspondence; circulars; memoranda; ceremonial ribbons and sashes; badges; assorted ceremonial items (horns, protractors, gavels, blocks, table cloths); metal and wooden storage boxes; certificates; photographs.

Minute books, treasurers book, cash book, ledgers and contributions book.

Annual reports 1851 - 1857, 1861 - 1866, 1896 - 1897 (box 1), Monthly Report 1851 - 1886, 1890 - 1896 (boxes 1 - 5). From 1897 to 1902 the ASE published the Engineers Journal and Monthly Record of Facts, Figures, and Fancy relating to the Engineering Trade, Unionism and Industrialism generally (boxes 5 - 6), but from c. 1905 the were two publications, the 'Report and Monthly Record' (1905 - 1912, boxes 6 - 7) and the 'Monthly Journal' (1908 - 1912, boxes 7 - 8). Between 1913 and 1921 these two separate publications were renamed the 'Monthly Journal and Report' (boxes 8 - 9), before the name changed to the Monthly Journal in May 1921 (when the ASE joined with other unions to become the Amalgamated Engineering Union), issues held from 1921 - 1964, and 1966 - 1967 (boxes 9 - 17). There is also a set of unbound duplicate Monthly Journals covering the years 1921 - 1933 (boxes 17 - 18), 1948 - 1959 and 1961 (boxes 19 - 20).

This is an collection of annual reports that were donated by various Australian companies. Numbers were allocated to each company but there are missing numbers as some reports were removed in 1980. Most annual reports cover the period from the mid 1950s till the late 1970s though many date from the early 20th century.

This is an collection of annual reports that were donated by various Australian insurance companies. Numbers were allocated to each company but there are missing numbers as some reports were removed in 1980. Most annual reports are from the 1960s and 1970s.

Melbourne University Branch, Australian Communist Party

Report on ACTU delegation to China. Published history of demarcation disputes, strikes and lockouts to 1844.

Melbourne. A Marxist journal of criticism and discussion

Minutes of federal council and committee meetings; correspondence files re policy, constitution, branch records, housing, member benefits and conditions of service, media and publicity; membership records; staff records; photographs and videocassettes; certificates and printed material.

Not yet processed

Bulletin for Asia and South Pacific Region, published by the World Federation of Trade Unions

A Communist Publication, CPA, GMH Unit (?) Melb. One issue held (no 79)

Issues held are: nos. 147, 207, 236-244, 298, 302, 330-331, 343, 346-349.

Reports of proceedings of annual conferences (1946-1965) and eight group photographs (1933-1952).

Minutes and agendas, reports, correspondence, arbitration material, financial records for the Canberra (ACT) Division, membership and office bearer nomination forms, Public Service Board circulars and printed material.

Minutes of general and special meetings of Federal Executive, New South Wales Branch, Divisional Councils and annual conferences, correspondence, financial records, rules, transcripts of proceedings and arbitration material.

Minutes of general and special minutes of the Federal Executive, correspondence and memoranda, arbitration material, financial records, reports, ballot papers and printed material.