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Federated Felt Hatting and Allied Trades Employees' Union of Australia, Federal Council deposit

AU NBAC N372
Deposit
1911 - 1990

Rules of the Federated Felt Hatting Employees' of Australasia (1912-1952), correspondence of the general secretary W. Peters and K. Cashman (1962 - 1983), General Secretary's working papers (1948 - 1991), some membership records for the New South Wales, Victorian, and South Australian branches (1936 - 1984), industrial files (1914 - 1984), apprenticeship records (1911 - 1984), financial records (1944 - 1984), photographs of union marches, union members and hat making (no dates), newspaper cuttings, hat advertisements and May Day ribbons (1950s - 1990s), Akubra News (1981 - 1984) and miscellaneous booklets (1887, 1947, 1955) including the Revised General Laws of the Journeyman Silk Hatters' Society of New South Wales (1887).

Federated Felt Hatting and Allied Trade Employees' Union of Australia

Petty cash book

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Plaints and affidavits regarding membership fees debtors

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General Secretary correspondence - W Peters, K Cashman

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General Secretary correspondence - W Peters

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Correspondence received by K Cashman

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Correspondence - unsorted

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Includes claims, insurance policies, notebooks, letters of returning officers, some minutes.

Published rulings of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission regarding variations to the Felt Hatting Award

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Rulings include 1914, 1950-1977 (with gaps), 1981. Rulings on variations of wage rates including for journeymen, Equal Pay for Females (1970), public holidays, sick and annual leave, Felt Hatting Award 1948 and 1950 and others. Also includes rulings on Union v J.P. Adamson (1963), Union v Union Hatting Mills and others (1960), Union v Denton Hat Mills (1914).

Papers in connection with the Felt Hatters Award 1948

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Includes reports, judgements regarding the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904-1947, transcripts relating to variations of the Award and the proceedings of the Award, and papers relating to the 1951 variation of the Award (Jubilee holiday).

Conciliation Commission rulings - two cases, Ace Hats and Others v the Union over piece work rates to male apprentices, one regarding junior and apprentice rates

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Conciliation Commission papers - rulings, notices, lists of respondents relating to three cases.

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Cases include The Union v. J.P. Adamson Pty Ltd regarding rates of pay, apprentices, hours of work, overtime, annual leave and sick leave; The Union v. Ace Hats and others regarding Margins and Annual Leave under the Felt Hatting Award (1963) and in the Matter of Variation to the Textile Industry Award regarding Annual Leave (1963).

Conciliation Commission papers - rulings and statements relating to three cases.

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Cases include a Union application for a 1.5% increase in all margins, Commission variations to consolidate the Award, and the joint judgement of Mr Justice Gallagher, Mr Justice Sweeney and Mr Justice Nimmo on the National Wage Cases (Metal Trades).

Conciliation Commission ruling - application by the Union to vary the minimum wage provision and provide for a 3% wage increase

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Conciliation Commission papers - rulings, proposals and transcripts in four cases.

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Two cases are regarding wage rates, one public holidays (Queen’s Birthday), one payment on annual leave, respondency of a worker, and the name of a respondent to the Award.

Conciliation Commission papers - rulings and transcripts for two cases, including an application by Ian Dixon Pty Ltd and Another to vary the definition of industry and application by the Union to vary wage rates

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Conciliation Commission papers - rulings and logs of claims in cases for the variation of wages

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Proposed variation of apprenticeship in the Felt Hatting Award (1977)

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Includes correspondence from Maurice Blackburn and co.

Long Service Leave in New South Wales, extract from NSW Industrial Gazette

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Conciliation Commission transcript - The Union v. Mountcastle Pty Ltd and Others regarding wages and conditions

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Includes part of a transcript of a case regarding industry assistance containing testimony of Mike Reiner of M. Reiner and Co.

Draft rules (1948), some Federal Council minutes, financials

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Rules amendments

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Draft rules

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Includes correspondence from Maurice Blackburn and co. regarding application to and rulings of Industrial Registrar on the Rules.

Allegations against General Secretary and Victorian branch officers

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Election of General Secretary K. Cashman

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Manufacturer file - 'The Kirsch Affair' - Mark Kirsch, trading as Latiners

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Includes correspondence, phone calls regarding disputes between the Union and R.V. Kirsch, trading as Latiners and Beret Manufacturers. Correspondants include the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Maurice Blackburn and co., Members of Parliament.

Manufacturer file - 'The Kirsch Affair' - Mark Kirsch, trading as Latiners

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Includes correspondence, phone calls regarding disputes between the Union and R.V. Kirsch, trading as Latiners and Beret Manufacturers. Correspondants include the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Maurice Blackburn and co., Members of Parliament.

Manufacturer file - Mountcastle

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Includes tenders, Conciliation and Arbitration Commission rulings, correspondence with members of NSW Parliament regarding Mountcastle government contracts.

Correspondence - Clothing and Allied Trades Union, regarding possible amalgamation

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Amalgamation with the Australian Textile Workers’ Union

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Includes correspondence.

Amalgamation with the Australian Textile Workers’ Union

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Includes correspondence, notice to members, ballots, cancellation of insurance policies.

Booklets - 'Revised General Laws of the Journeyman Silk Hatters' Society of NSW' (1887), 'Long Service Leave in NSW' (c.1956), 'Yearly Report of the Amalgamated Society of Journeymen Felt Hatters of Great Britain' (1947)

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Early History of the Trade Union Movement by D. Seedsman, Senate preselection candidate

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Certificates of 'Registration of an Association as an Organization of Employees' for the Federated Felt Hatting and Allied Trades Employees Union of Australia and The Clothing Allied Trades Union of Australia

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Includes amendments for name and industry changes. Office copy stamped Jul 1967.

Akubra News - vol. 1, no. 1 - vol. 1, no. 9

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Working papers including rough minutes, copies of minutes, agenda papers, notes of the General Secretary

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Rough minutes of the Federal Council and Management Committee meetings

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General Secretary K Cashman.

K Cashman's working diary including personal notes, notes from Arbitration Court / Commission proceedings, notes from conferences with employers, notes of ‘Special Meetings’, and notes regarding apprenticeship arrangements

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Also some miscellaneous correspondence (including from the Australian Textile Workers’ Union).

Working papers of Kevin Cashman

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Working papers of Kevin Cashman

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Millinery employees book appendix 1

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Members' names arranged alphabetically and by place of employment. Book is undated - dates of response are 1949, occasionally 1962.

Membership cards

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Arranged alphabetically and by place of employment.

Interstate travelling cards

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Apprentice book, listed by employer

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Date ranges 1932 - 1934 and 1972 - 1981. Includes a record of indenture for journeymen / women, 'items of interest’ and ‘issue of tickets’. Includes some correspondence (1942) and several membership tickets (1974-1980).

Membership dues

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Balance sheets and financial statements, Federal, NSW, and Vic branches

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Rough minutes and notes on the Federal Council meetings

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General Secretary W Peters.

Working papers of Kevin Cashman

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Includes correpondence, membership certificate of the Amalgamated Society of Journeymen Felt Hatters (UK) dated 6 May 1947, and indentures of apprenticeship dated 1935 and 1965.

Funeral Benefits Fund

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Indenture of apprenticeship agreements made between the employer, apprentice, and the apprentices’ guardian

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Arranged by date. Employers based in NSW.

Indentures of agreement for apprentices with Akubra Hats

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Federal fund warrants and expenses claims

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General Secretary correspondence

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General Secretary correspondence

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Correspondence received from members, regarding whimsey, apprentices, and resignations

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Correspondence regarding a survey of labour

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Letter from Australian Council of Trade Unions on amalgamation with Australian Textile Workers Union

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General Secretary’s correspondence - unsorted

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Subjects include workplace disputes, election of union officials, financial compensation.

Papers relating to an industrial dispute regarding the Award against JP Adamson and Others, including notice to employers, and letters to members

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Conciliation Commission papers - rulings and drafts relating to decimalisation of wages, union application for wage increases, and variation of the basic wage

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Conciliation Commission ruling - application by the Union to vary the Felt Hatting Award by deleting Clause 8A

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Application and related papers by the Federated Felt Hatting and Allied Trades Employees Union of Australia to alter membership eligibility rules and industry description

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Conciliation Commission papers - applications, rulings, correspondence, transcripts in regards to several cases regarding wage rates and varying the Felt Hatting Award

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Manufacturer file - Dunkerley Hat Mills Ltd

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Correspondence, including on whimsies and work agreements, piece work rates.

Manufacturer file - 'The Kirsch Affair' - R.V. Kirsch, trading as Latiners and Beret Manufacturers

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Includes correspondence regarding disputes between the Union and R.V. Kirsch, trading as Latiners and Beret Manufacturers. Correspondants include the Australian Council of Trade Unions and Leo McLeay, Member for Grayndler.

Correspondence - French nuclear test ban and rabbit fur cargo

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Including from manufacturers requesting release of raw material and considerations from the Australian Council of Trade Unions.

Felt hatting process descriptions

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Photographs - Labour Day procession, Bourke St Melbourne

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Photographs - union officials and other staff including W Peters and K Cashman

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Photographs - Kirsch’s Mill, Montmorency, Victoria

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Photos taken by Kevin Cashman. Includes photos of Federal Secretary W 'Bill' Peters, Victorian Branch Secretary Ollie McKelson, and Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commissioner John Lewis Gough.

Photographs - union staff including K Cashman

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Photographs - Hat making process

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Also includes photos of K Cashman and Fred Rose.

Logo drafts

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Lyrics by Denis Kevans, 1971.

The Felt Hatters Union (handwritten song lyrics)

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Rough minutes and notes on meetings of the Federal Council and other working meetings

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General Secretary K Cashman.

Rough minutes of the Full Management Committee meetings and conferences with employers

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General Secretary K Cashman.

Membership roll

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Dates of joining the union start from 1912.

Funeral Benefits Fund

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Indenture of Apprenticeship notice for John Bardsley (photocopy)

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Register of apprenticeships, listed by employer including dates of indenture and expiration

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Cash book

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General Secretary correspondence

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Correspondence received from members, regarding whimsey, apprentices, and resignations

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Correspondence - Federal Council business

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Correspondence received by K Cashman

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Includes letters from Victoria Branch Secretary Fred Rose and other union members. Matters covered include rules and variations of the Felt Hatters Award.

Correspondence received by K Cashman, including from Maurice Blackburn regarding proposed amalgamations and from Government officials on various matters

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Correspondence regarding compensation claims and some disciplinary matters

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Award variations - correspondence and rulings

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Includes Union v. Ace Hats Ltd & others regarding piecework rates, payment for public holidays and sick-leave for journeymen (1947), Union v. Ace Hats & others regarding Annual Leave (1946), amendments to the rules of the Union (1945), application to vary piecework rates (1942), The Union v. United Felt Hats Pty Ltd regarding the definition of felt hatting (1939). Also includes minutes of conference between the Amalgamated Clothing and Allied Trades Union of Australia and the Federated Felt Hatting Employees’ Union Of Australasia (1944).

Papers relating to an industrial dispute regarding variation to the Award, including notice to members, list of members notified, and the application to the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission

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Material includes members' and manufacturers' addresses.

Papers relating to an industrial dispute regarding the Award against JP Adamson and Others, including notice to employers, and letters to members

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Bound transcripts of cases 1017 (application by the union to vary payment of journeymen’s rates) and 1188 (application by Latiners and Beret Manufacturers Pty Ltd to vary fur and/or wool hat manufacture)

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Conciliation and Arbitration Commission’s own proposal of variation of wage rates for the Felt Hatting Awards given the National Wage Cases of 1967

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Also includes some correspondence regarding R.V. Kirsch and Latiners.

Correspondence - Maurice Blackburn and co. regarding variations to the Felt Hatting Award

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