Deposit T39 - Printing Industry Employees' Union of Australia, New South Wales Branch deposit

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AU NBAC T39

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Printing Industry Employees' Union of Australia, New South Wales Branch deposit

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  • 1848 - 1960 (Creation)

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8.7 m

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Name of creator

(c. 1880 - c. 1917)

Biographical history

The New South Wales Typographical Association was formed after a series of meetings held in early 1880 and registered under the New South Wales Trade Union Act, 1881, on the 15 June 1882. It had been known as the Sydney Typographical Association until changing its name on 1 January 1882. Prior to its formation in 1880 there had been several similar societies in Sydney, such as the Compositors' Society, the Sydney Typographical Society, and a different N.S.W. Typographical Association. In 1917-1918 the NSW Typographical Association was converted to the New South Wales branch of the Printing Industry Employees' Union of Australia.

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(1880 -1915)

Biographical history

The Australasian Typographical Union was established in 1880 as a federation of the typographical association in South Australia, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, Tasmania and New South Wales. It was dissolved in 1915 and was succeeded by the Printing Industry Employees' Union of Australia.

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(c. 1916 - 1966)

Biographical history

The Printing Industry Employees' Union of Australia, known as the One Big Union of Printers in 1916, was registered federally in 1917. On 31 March 1966 the Printing Industry Employees' Union of Australia and the Amalgamated Printing Trades Employees' Union of Australia signed an agreement to amalgamate to form the Printing and Kindred Industries Union.

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Minute books, mortuary benefit claims, financial records, rule books, membership records, wages and time books, unemployment relief book (1889-1894) and benefits register (1929-1930), correspondence, industrial papers, reports, letter books, newspaper cuttings book, photographs and publications. Includes records of predecessors the Australasian Typographical Union, the NSW Typographical Association and the Herald Office Chapel (1848-1866).

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Researchers must sign an access agreement

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Digital copies of selected items are available as follows:

Herald Office Chapel minutes (1848 - 1865) at https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/108927

New South Wales Typographical Association minutes (1880 - 1888) at https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/123241

Related units of description

NBAC deposits N69; Z482; T43; T52; E92; M42; N12; Z116; E216; T54; E91; M23; Z246; E116; M33; N318; M22

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Note

One volume of Herald Office Chapel minutes (1848 - 1865) and six volumes of New South Wales Typographical Association minutes (1880 - 1888) are inscribed on the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Register as part of the Minute Books of Pre-Federation Australian Trade Unions (http://www.amw.org.au/register/listings/minute-books-pre-federation-australian-trade-unions)

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Conservation treatment of the following items was generously funded by the Friends of the Noel Butlin Archives Centre in 2012 and 2017:
Herald Office Chapel minutes (1848 - 1865)
NSW Typographical Association minute book (1896 - 1901)

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Entered from deposit description on 18 December 2012

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