Deposit E196 - Sheet Metal Working, Agricultural Implement & Stovemaking Industrial Union of Australia, New South Wales Branch deposit 1

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AU NBAC E196

Title

Sheet Metal Working, Agricultural Implement & Stovemaking Industrial Union of Australia, New South Wales Branch deposit 1

Date(s)

  • 1888 - 1972 (Creation)

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15 m

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Name of creator

(1911 - 1972)

Biographical history

The union was originally registered as the Amalgamated Tinsmiths' Sheet Metal Workers' Cannister Makers' Gas Meter Makers' & Assistants' Union in 1911 and comprised of unions that had operated since 1881. From 1913 its name changed to the Sheet Metal Working Industrial Union of Australia. In 1945 the union changed its name to the Sheet Metal Working Agricultural Implement & Stove Making Industrial Union of Australia to reflect growing membership from members of the Federated Agricultural Implement & Stovemakers' Porcelain Enamellers' & Ironworkers' Association of Australia. It was deregistered in 1972 and joined the Amalgamated Engineering Union to form the Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union in 1973.

Name of creator

(1906 - 1935)

Biographical history

Originally formed in 1906 as the Stove & Piano Frame Moulders' & Stovemakers' Employees' Union, the union amalgamated with the Federated Enamellers' Union in 1935 to form the Federated Stovemakers' & Porcelain Enamellers' Association of Australia.

Name of creator

(1941 - 1945)

Biographical history

The union was formed in 1941 by the amalgamation of the Federated Agricultural Implement Machinery & Ironworkers' Association of Australia and the Federated Stovemakers' & Porcelain Enamellers' Association of Australia. In 1945 the union amalgamated with the Sheet Metal Working Industrial Union of Australia to form the Sheet Metal Working, Agricultural Implement & Stovemaking Industrial Union of Australia.

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(1935 - 1941)

Biographical history

The union was formed in 1935 by the amalgamation of the Federated Enamellers' Association of Australia and the Federated Stove & Piano Frame Makers' Association of Australia. In 1941 it amalgamated with the Federated Agricultural Implement Machinery & Ironworkers' Association of Australia.

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Scope and content

Rule books, minutes, correspondence files, financial records, membership records, arbitration material, printed material and photographs. Includes records of predecessors the Stove & Piano Frame Moulders' & Stovemakers Employees' Union; Federated Agricultural Implement & Stovemakers' Porcelain Enamellers' & Ironworkers' Association of Australia; Federated Stovemakers' & Porcelain Enamellers Association of Australia; and the NSW Amalgamated Tinsmith, Sheet Iron Workers and Meter Makers Trade Society.

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Researchers must sign an access agreement

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Some material has evidence of mould (inactive).

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Entered from deposit description on 11 February 2013

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