Deposit N82 - Minute Book of the Factory Employees Union of Australasia

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AU NBAC N82

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Minute Book of the Factory Employees Union of Australasia

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  • 1908, 1909 - 1910; 1935 (Creation)

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Name of creator

Factory Employees' Union of Australasia
(c. 1908 - 1922)

Biographical history

The Factory Employees' Union of Australasia was formed in Sydney in about 1908. It covered employees in laundries, fat extraction and bone mills, and factories manufacturing jam, soap, candles, paper, card board boxes, biscuits, cakes, glue and paint. In 1922 the Union became the Factory Branch of the Australian Workers Union, New South Wales Branch (AWU).

Name of creator

Carter, Alfred Walter
(1865 - 1935)

Biographical history

Alfred Walter Carter was Union Secretary of the Factory Employees' Association of Australasia from 1909 until his death on 27 September 1935. He came to Australia in the early 1890s and was involved in the formation of the Meat Employees Union in north Queensland before moving to New South Wales where he was involved with the Ferry and Tug Board Employees Union and the Newcastle Branch of the Seamen's Union and then the Factory Employees' Association.

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Noel Butlin Archives Centre

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Minute Book of the Factory Employees Union of Australasia December 1909 - December 1910; also containing letters and notices of meetings, ballot count for election of officers January 1908 (pp 114), newspaper cuttings and photographs of Alf Carter, General Secretary (pp 111-113), pamphlet and postcard.

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      Entered from deposit description on 23 October 2012

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