Minute books, letterbooks and some financial records of the Queensland Shearers' Union, Blackhall, the Queensland Labourers' Union, Barcaldine and Springsure, and the Amalgamated Workers' Union and Australian Workers' Union, Hughenden, Longreach and Charleville, including some records of the Australian Labor Federation, Barcaldine and the Workers' Political Organisation, Charleville and Warrego. AWU records of the 1956 shearers strike were microfilmed and then returned.
Annual convention minute books (1895-1982), Executive Council papers (1915-1985), membership records (1905-1980), papers of General Secretaries, records of NSW, Tasmanian, Western, Central and Railway Workers' Industrial Branches, financial records, photographs and printed material. Includes records of The Worker Board of Control , the People's Printing and Publishing Company, Westland Broadcasting Company and Labor Papers Ltd. Records of Thomas Cavanagh, union member and delegate to the NSW Trades and Labour Council and the ALP Conference, and union tickets of Martin Butler and Richard Hinton. Also contains miscellaneous records of other bodies: United Labourers' Protective Society of New South Wales, Amalgamated Miners' Association of New South Wales, Associated Workers Union, Amalgamated Workers Association of Queensland, Amalgamated Workers Association of North Queensland and General Labourers' Union of Australasia.
Queensland Shearers' Union: financial and membership records for Blackall, Hughenden and Longreach Branches; Queensland Labourers' Union: financial and membership records for Barcaldine, Hughenden, Longreach and Comet Branch, Springsure; Amalgamated Workers' Union/Australian Workers Union: financial and membership records for Hughenden, Longreach and Charleville; AWU Longreach correspondence and photographs; records of the Australian Labor Federation (Barcaldine), Amalgamated Workers' Association of Queensland (Longreach), the Australian Carriers' Union and the Australian Labour Party (Longreach 1922-1926), and records of the 1956 shearers' strike.
