Publication of the AWU Victoria-Riverina Branch

The Australian worker : incorporating labor news. Issues from 1974 to 1998 (gaps).

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

Brisbane. Printed and published for the Worker Newspaper Pty for the AWU Queensland Branch. Unbroken run from Vol 1 no 1 March 1890 to Vol 85 no 4119 August 1974 held.

Records of AWU Head Office, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria-Riverina, South Australian, Tasmanian and Westralian branches; membership records: General Labourers' Union (1891-1894), Inverell, Scone, Cobar, Coonamble, Moree, Wagga Wagga, and Young Branches (1890s), Bourke Branch (1895-1913), Port Augusta Branch (1895), Central Branch (1905-1929), Queensland branches (1914-1915), CSR employees Condong, Harwood and Broadwater (1914-1915), Railway Workers' Industry Branch (1916-1932), NSW Branch (1933-1934); financial records for Head Office, branches, Labor Papers Ltd and the People's Printing and Publishing Company, rules, conference reports (1891-1957), arbitration material, New Zealand Workers' Union material, printed material and poems by shearer Arthur Stevenson (1890s). Also includes ledger for Amalgamated Miners' Union, Mt Farell, Tasmania (1900-1917).

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.

Vol 1 no 3

Minutes of Queensland Shearers' Union (1887-1892), Australian Workers' Union Annual Conference (1896- 1968), Executive Council (1902-1968), Central Branch (1899-1944), Bourke Branch (1906-1912), Tasmanian Branch (1918-1924), The Worker Board of Control (1895-1957) and the Amalgamated Workers' Association of Queensland (1912-1913). General correspondence, legal opinions and records of the People's Printing and Publishing Company, Westland Broadcasting Company, Amalgamated Mining Employees Association of Australia and the Amalgamated Works Association.

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

Microfilm copy of 'Report of the Federal Australian Labor Party Committee of Inquiry into the Alleged Faked Ballot Boxes'.

Minutes of Executive Council (1965), rules, conference reports (1958-1968), reports and financial records for AWU Head Office, Labor Papers Ltd, Westland Broadcasting Company, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria-Riverina, South Australia, Tasmanian and Westralian Branches, arbitration material and printed material.

Records of the Queensland Branch of the Australian Workers' Union including minutes of Branch Executive (1913-1970), annual delegate meetings (1914-1970) and The Worker Pty Ltd Board of Directors (1914-1970), correspondence, records of Charters Towers branch and Northern, Central, Far Northern, and Southern Districts. Includes by-laws of Queensland Shearers' Union (1890) and material relating to 1891 strike, and minutes of Australian Labor Federation (1896-1913) and Townsville Hotel, Club, Cafe and Laundry Employees' Union (1917-1919).

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

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.

Copy of deposit NBAC E161A: 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 and records of the 1956 shearers strike.