Ledgers; journals; cash books; station financial records and monthly returns (showing information re persons employed, stock, rainfall); reappraisement of rentals of some of the company's stations in the western division of New South Wales between 1890 and 1904; information re. income and working expenses of the company's stations between 1893 and 1943; contracts of sale, miscellaneous papers and maps relating to the company's stations.
Australian Mercantile Land and Finance Company LimitedMinutes of general and Management Committee meetings, correspondence, subject files, cash books, membership records (1973-1982), contribution lists (1931-1989), rule books, press cuttings, photographs, printed material, J Weir broadcast transcripts (1948-1956), industrial files and training files. Includes records of predecessor NSW Saw Mill and Timber Yard Employees Association.
Amalgamated Timber Workers' Union of AustraliaProspectus (1910), memorandum and articles of association (1922), notices of meetings (1910 - 1942), Directors' reports and accounts (1910 - 1948), General Manager's reports (1914 - 1918) and reprints from the Financial Times and Investor's Chronicle (1911 - 1939).
British New Guinea Development Company LimitedMinutes, wages books, correspondence, company papers including memorandum and articles of association, newspaper cuttings and photographs, Victory Loan certificates, history of the company, and materials related to the company's sales and distribution of products to the Australian and American armed forces during World War II.
Golden Cob Products Proprietary LimitedMicrofilm copy of:
- Memorandum and articles of association 1911
- Certificate of incorporation of a company 1912
- List of shareholders 1912 - 1913
- Shareholders’ resolutions 1914
- Additional articles of association 1914
- List of shareholders 1914 - 1915
- Shareholders’ resolutions 1915
- List of shareholders 1916 - 1919
- Agreement for sale and purchase of Hume Brothers Engineering works 1920
- Shareholders’ resolutions 1920
- Hume Company Limited list of shareholders 1920
- Hume Brothers Cement Iron Company Limited – notice to wind up voluntarily 1921
- Final meeting of shareholders and company liquidation 1923
Publications including pamphlets, serials, books, plans, rule books, posters, invitations and press cuttings donated to the Archives.
Noel Butlin Archives CentreThe material in this deposit is divided into three sections:
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Records created at Head Office: correspondence with branch offices, 1937-50; balance papers for Australia, 1941-60; balance sheets for stations, 1905-57; records of clients' accounts, 1925-40; income tax returns, 1915-50; provident and pension fund records, 1899-1958; applications & correspondence with Lands Dept, c. 1897-1943; wool clip statistics, 1890-1928.
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Records created at stations: records for Charlton Station (including correspondence, 1902-41; financial records, 1881-1938; sheep and shearing records, 1891-1941); Dunumbral Station (merino stud book, 1905-1913); Milroy Station (ledgers, 1943-1954); Mogila Station (financial records, 1933-44); Mossgiel Station (financial books, 1891-2, 1906-35; stock books, 1886-9, 1931-48; and Summervale Station (ledgers, 1942-61).
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Records relating to subsidiary companies absorbed by AML&F Co Ltd and to clients: Paroo Pastoral Co; Australian Sheep Farms Ltd; Frank Watson & Co Pty Ltd; McPhie & Co Pty Ltd; Yeates Bros Pty Ltd; H P Veness & Co Pty Ltd; A McLean & Co Pty Ltd; E W Sparke Pty Ltd; Bovril Australian Estates Ltd & allied companies; G M Richmond (Mogila); G M Richmond & Son (Mogila);Includes some minutes, financial records, articles of association, share records and reports.
Agreement
Pastoralists' Federal Council of AustraliaMinutes, correspondence, office files, arbitration, financial records, printed material, banners, press cuttings and photographs. Includes records of the Australasian Society of Engineers and the Amalgamated Engineering Union Combined Unions Shop Sub Committee and Eveleigh Carriage Workshop Shop Committee.
Eveleigh Loco Combined Unions Shop Stewards' CommitteeThis deposit has not yet been processed.
Souter, HaroldThis deposit has not yet been processed.
Includes pre 1990 membership cards.
Minutes of the Pastoralists' Federal Council of Australia, Graziers' Federal Council and Australian Woolgrowers' and Graziers' Council including annual convention and Executive Committee (1891-1976), minutes of the Australian Woolgrowers' Council (1956-1960) and annual meetings (1945-1960), papers of the Australian Wool Industry Conference (1962-1976), office files, and printed material.
Pastoralists' Federal Council of AustraliaTailors' Trade Protection Society registers, 1870-1899; minutes (with the Tailoresses' from 1905), 1903-1907; Tailoresses' strike book 1883, registers 1888-1893; Pressers' Union minutes 1888-1902; Victorian Clothing Operatives' Union records 1902-1907; Victorian Branch minutes 1908-1909; Tasmanian Branch balance sheets 1918-1938; Federal Council minutes 1907-1949; copies of branch minutes 1923-1949; Federal correspondence 1913-1956; arbitration material 1907-1959; financial papers 1921-1949.
Tailors' Trade Protection SocietyMinutes and meeting papers, constitution and rules, registration papers, correspondence, reports, membership and financial records, ship files, arbitration and industrial files, diary, photographs, press cuttings, and printed material.
Merchant Service Guild of AustraliaThis deposit contains records of the Federal Office and the Victorian Branch of the Bank Officials' Association including minutes of meetings, correspondence, papers relating to conferences, and rules.
Bank Officials' AssociationMinutes, reports, correspondence, financial and arbitration records, photographs and publications. Records re the State Instrumentality Unions Committee and the War Railways Committee, papers of State Divisions and of the Victorian Railways Classification Board. Includes records of predecessor the Federated Railway Locomotive Enginemen's Association.
Australian Federated Union of Locomotive EnginemenMinutes of the Australian Letter Carriers' Association Executive Council (1923-1924) and conferences (1915-1924), minutes of the Postal Sorters' Union of Australia Federal Executive (1924-1925), correspondence of the Amalgamated Postal Workers' Union with branches, Public Service Board, Postmaster-General's Department, Superannuation Board, members of parliament and other unions, and information files including reports, press cuttings and printed material.
Australian Letter Carriers' AssociationThe deposit consists of office files concerning the branches as stock and station agents, merchandise retailers, auctioneers and valuers, financiers etc. Also includes records of clients' and trade debtors' accounts, correspondence, financial and legal records.
Dalgety Australia LimitedThe deposit consists of manger's correspondence with other branches 1906-1963; correspondence files and papers concerning clients; copies of wages and payroll tax returns 1947-51; company leases 1887-1946; financial and insurance records; clients' documents 1891-1942; salaries book and sheets 1915-57; security registers 1895-1960; shipping information 1895-1903; Melbourne Branch conference minutes 1946; staff reports 1890-1927; printed material including annual reports 1882-1960; pamphlets 1882-1953; serials 1888-1954; plan, map 1912, and photographs c. 1924-1958.
New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company LimitedThis deposit consists of records of E W van Senden prior to and during his appointment as manager of Dalgety and Co Limited: Personal letters from his fiancee, banks, clients, the Hon George Riddoch, relatives etc; business letters, negotiations and documents re the transfer of his business concerns to Dalgetys, share certificates, company prospectus, diaries, receipts, cash books, legders and plans (1887-1917). Papers in French relating to his office as Consular Agent for France in Adelaide: correspondence with thte French Consul General in Sydney, letters and documents received re: shipping, passenger lists of French ships "Australien", "Ville de la Ciotat", and "Caledonieu" (1907-1908), trade, requests for information, letters from James Page former Consular Agent, and information on accounts (1907-08). Branch records: Minutes of Local Board of Advice (1906-17), letters recieved till 1912 and later correspondence of Adelaide managers (1897-1966), superintendent's monthly returns (1919-29), working papers for returns (1948-49), managers' reports to Head Office (1907-60), Stock Department reports (1931-41), financial documents (1897-1960), taxation returns records (1913-61), registers of properties, profits & loss, salaries, deeds, securities and signatures (1900-54), managers' diaries (1901-04), press cuttings (1928-33), annual reports of Dalgety and Co Ltd (1897, 1899, 1902-13), annual reports of other companies, and a small number of prints, photographs and plans.
Dalgety and Company LimitedAll types of company records including branch manager's reports, annual reports, correspondence, financial records, deeds and documents, salaries and wages books, stations valuations, Insurance department records, Shipping department records, registers, papers re Woolbrokers Staff Association, publications, pamphlets and photographs. Also includes records of subsidiary companies: Williams' Pty Ltd, Rockhampton (acquired in July 1943); Friends (Pty) Ltd, Gladstone (acquired February 1949); McKimmons (Pty) Ltd, Townsville; Dalgety Trading Company Pty Ltd.
Dalgety and Company LimitedAll types of company records including deeds and papers re securities, stock and property sales, agreements, pastoral leases; correspondence; wool catalogues; calculating tables of wool yields, limits and prices; publications and charts.
Dalgety and Company LimitedAll types of company records including minutes, staff and agents' conferences records, correspondence, financial records, ledgers and journals, Shipping Department accounts and records, manager's reports, merchandise stock lists, salaries and wages records, payroll records, staff pension fund returns, Accountant's and Administration department records, stations valuations, insurance papers, Auditor's reports, Stock department and Wool department records, instructional books and training notes, publications, pamphlets and posters, building plans, photographs and newspaper cuttings.
Dalgety and Company LimitedCorrespondence, branch and managers' reports, financial records, salaries and wages records, conference reports and publications. Also includes records of Ballarat and Western District sub-branches (Camperdown, Colac, Terang) and records of Geelong Wool Brokers' Association.
Dalgety and Company LimitedRecords of the Melbourne and Sydney offices of Robert Reid and Company Limited: minutes, financial records, share registers, correspondence, stock and sale records, staff records, and records of subsidiaries Hustlers Pty Ltd and T Pickles and Son Ltd. Share records of Reid Murray Holdings Limited.
Robert Reid and Company LimitedCopies of minutes, annual reports, financial records, correspondence, printed materials and photographs, maps and plan, station records. Includes records of constituent Australasian Sheep Dip Company some records of the Ottery Mine (near Tenterfield, NSW) and Quambone and Mungrabambone Stations (Central Division, NSW).
William Cooper and Nephews (Australia) Proprietary LimitedMinutes (1922 - 1960), records of subsidiary companies Lincoln Knitting Mills Pty Ltd (1920-1940) and Lincoln Spinning Mills Pty Ltd (1920 - 1940), memorandum and articles of associations, financial records, share material, correspondence, secretary's files, general office files, sales records, ledgers and journals, material re Provident Fund and staff superannuation scheme, staff record cards, plans and specifications, books and photograph.
Lincoln Mills (Australia) LimitedRegisters of officers and staff (1852-1944), staff reports (1928-1962) and staff record cards (1962); Chairman's Board agenda papers (1951-1960); financial records including register of mortgages and share registers; clients' documents, Melbourne and Sydney offices (1886-1958); 'historical' material (1864-1977); legal case files; correspondence of G A Manning to Sydney, Perth and Adelaide offices (1939-1967); General Manager's and Secretary's correspondence with branch offices and London Office including presscopy letterbooks (1899-1962); correspondence with stations: Bunna Bunna, Canonbar, Corinda, Dumble, Eremeran, Manfred, Mulgawarrina, Weribone (1944-1955); Wool Department files, Stock Department files and Land Department files. Also includes records of the Melbourne Woolbrokers' Association and the Wool Selling Brokers Officers' Association of Australia (1914-1953) including minutes, financial records, arbitration material and press cuttings.
Goldsbrough Mort and CompanyThis deposit includes records from the South Australian Public Teachers' Union, Women Teachers' Guild, South Australian Institute of Teachers, Primary Teachers' Association, Male Assistants' Association, Southern Teachers' Association, High School Senior Mistresses and Assistants' Association and the Port Pirie Teachers' Association. Records include minutes of meetings, subject files, some photographs and annual reports.
South Australian Institute of TeachersThis deposit consists of the records of the Federal Office of the Musicians' Union of Australia. The bulk of the records cover the 1950s to 1980s. Minutes of the Annual Conference can be found in this collection covering the years 1955 to 1977, as well as an extensive set of subject files documenting the Unions' activities from the 1960s. Further material includes import files detailing visits of overseas artists; arbitration transcripts, a transcript of an Inquiry into the Copyright Act 1982, rules of the Federal Office and MUA Branches, rules of other unions and of the Musicians' Club of Victoria, printed membership lists (1965-1981), miscellaneous printed material, stickers mainly produced as part of the Keep Music Alive campaign and badges.
Musicians' Union of AustraliaMinutes of general, special and committee meetings, 1920-1922, 1933-1937; Port Adelaide Waterfront Employment Committee minutes, 1942-1946; office files, 1914-1983; accident reports, 1938-1950; financial records, 1926-1968; Social and Sports Club, 1963-1968; membership material, 1900-1969; statistical analysis of men employed on Port Adelaide wharves, 1931-1935; press and radio pick-up announcement notices, 1957-1968; printed material, 1935-1986.
Waterside Workers’ Federation of AustraliaThis deposit contains minutes of meetings of the ACT Primary Teachers' Association 1972 - 1977 and the ACT Secondary Teachers' Association 1968 - 1972. Records of the ACT Teachers' Federation comprise office files, 1972 - 1976, newspaper clippings 1975 - 1984, meeting papers of the Interim ACT Schools Authority 1975 - 1976 and the ACT Schools Authority 1977 - 1985.
Australian Capital Territory Teachers' FederationMinutes (1915-1927, 1938-1976), correspondence and subject files, financial records, some records of the Sydney, Canberra and Power sub-branches, photographs and printed material. Of significance is N81/39, an address by Bob Hawke to the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemans Association of Australia (NSW), State Council Meeting, 25 - 27 June 1969. Recorded in the minutes is the decision to support Hawke in the ballot for President of the ACTU.
Federated Engine Drivers' and Firemen's Association of AustralasiaMinute files (1973-1984), correspondence and subject files, arbitration material, rule books, printed material, posters, banner, certificates (including Barrier Ranges Drivers' and Firemen's Association 1892) and photographs. Includes records of sub-branches: Lake Macquarie, Sydney, Power, Granville, Central Illawarra (membership records 1952-1979) and Canberra (membership records 1957-1970).
Federated Engine Drivers' and Firemen's Association of AustralasiaThe deposit consists of office files (subject), financial statements and publications. Office files include reports, minutes, correspondence, circulars, branch records, membership lists, registers and directories, congress files, financial records, records re government departments and other associations, photographs and printed material.
Australian Dental Association IncorporatedArbitration files, press cuttings, photographs of Gove project (1971), sound recordings of radio programs (1979-1982) and printed material.
Federated Ironworkers' Association of AustraliaRecords of predecessors to the National Farmers' Federation: minutes of the Primary Producers' Council of Australia (1943-1949), the National Farmers' Union of Australia (1949-1969), Executive Meetings of the Australian Farmers' Federation (1969-1972), the Australian Vegetable Growers' Federation (1945-1965), the Australian Wheatgrowers' Federation (1969-1979) and the Australian Seed Producers' Federation (1974-1976), conference papers, correspondence and subject files, administrative files and printed material. Includes files of Alex Norquay as Secretary of various vegetable growers' organisations.
Australian Farmers' FederationThis deposit contains constitutions, rules, minutes of meetings, General Secretary's correspondence, conference materials and records from the Victorian, Tasmanian, South Australian and New South Wales Divisions.
Bank Officials' AssociationCorrespondence and subject files (1918-1979), arbitration files, rule books, copies of minutes of Metal Trades Federation (1944-1971), membership records for NSW Branch (1940), financial records, photographs (1959-1975), plans and printed material.
Federated Ironworkers' Association of AustraliaMinutes and reports, correspondence, circulars, national convention files, election files, national rule files, branch rules, arbitration material, subject files, press cuttings and publications. Includes Victorian Railways Classification Board minutes.
Australian Railways UnionFederal Executive minutes (1960-1990), ballot papers, correspondence, Ray Gietzelt's files as General Secretary and numbered subject files which include Branch minutes, correspondence, arbitration material and printed material
Federated Miscellaneous Workers' Union of AustraliaMinutes of Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners Queensland State Executive (1924-1934), BWIU State Executive (1949-1987), Brisbane Branch (1949-1987) and Building Trades Group of Unions (1941-1982), membership list (1961-1980), subject files, arbitration files, state delegates convention records (1954-1994). Minutes of Operative Painters' and Decorators' Union Queensland Branch (1917-1988) and sub-branches: Rockhampton, Bundaberg, Townsville, Maryborough, Ipswich, Toowoomba, Cairns and Mackay, minutes of Queensland Plasterers' Union, Gold Coast Branch (1978-1980) and membership list of Association of Self Employed Building Workers (1972-1982). Records from 1993 were created by the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union.
Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners of AustraliaFederal Council minutes (1961-1973), copies of Branch minutes: NSW, Victorian, Queensland, South Australian, Western Australian, ACT, Watchmen's Employment Committee and Northern Australian Workers' Union Branches, correspondence and subject files, rule books, reports, financial records, Ray Gietzeldt's files as General Secretary, industrial files and printed material. Minute books of New South Wales Branch (1940-1980), Sydney Shipping Industry Section (1956-1980), Victorian Branch (1945-1963), Western Australian Branch (1963-1982), ACT Branch (1960), Queensland Branch (1930-1956), NSW and Tasmanian Branch correspondence, and industrial files. Includes miscellaneous records of the Australian Leather and Allied Trades Employees' Federation (1902-1966), minutes, membership records, files and financial records of the Pyrmont Sugar Works Employees' Union (1905-1973) and minutes of the Metropolitan Cleaners, Caretakers and Lift Attendants Industrial Union of Workers, Western Australia (1927-1930). Deposit received in 2002 consists of arbitration files (1940s-1980s), correspondence, printed material and copies of Branch minutes (1980s-1990s).
Federated Miscellaneous Workers' Union of AustraliaMinutes and subject files, correspondence, arbitration and financial records, copies of circulars, media releases, organisers files, workers compensation envelopes, membership and compensation records, records of Sub-Branches and Sections including Port August, Mile End Yard, Peterborough (includes minutes), Metropolitan Shunters section (includes minutes) and Metro Guards Section.
Australian Railways UnionHumes Ltd correspondence files and financial papers, 1970s-80s.
Includes, also, Humes Ltd minutes 1940s-60s; Humes Ltd Board papers 1981-2; Humes Ltd Board papers and minutes 1983-4; Humes Ltd Board papers and minutes 1984-55; Humes Industries Board Minutes Index, undated; Steel Mains Pty Ltd Board papers 1978-83; Australian Tube Mills board papers 1985-6; Hume Industries (Far East) Directors reports 1979/80; Hume Industries (Far East) Board papers 1976-7, 1980-1; Hume Industries (Malaya) Board papers 1979-81; Hume Industries (New Zealand) Board papers 1975-6; Hume Industries (New Zealand) Board papers and report 1977-83; Hume Industries (New Zealand) Board papers 1984-6; Hume Pipe (UK) Board papers 1974-85; Vitaclay Pipes Board papers 1981-4; ARC Industries minutes 1951-76; ARC Engineering minutes 1931-47; ARC Engineering minutes 1946-51; ARC Engineering minutes 1951-8; ARC Engineering minutes 1958-63; ARC Engineering (VIC) minutes 1958-71; ARC Subsidiaries’ minutes, 1950s-60s.
NSW Fire Brigade Employees' Union minutes of State Council, Executive and general meetings (1948-1983) and other sections and committees, correspondence with register, subject files, arbitration material, circulars (1953-1993), transcripts of oral histories, reports and submissions, conference and seminar papers, Canberra branch files, discipline and grievance case files, newspaper cuttings, photographs (1964-1986), rules and printed material. NSW Fire Brigade Officers' Association minutes of Executive and general meetings (1944-1948) and NSW Fire Brigade Senior Officers' Association minutes (1954-1975), correspondence, industrial files, financial records and membership records.
New South Wales Fire Brigade Employees' UnionShips’ files, 1951-1987; subject files, 1920s-1987; financial records, 1950s-1982; membership books, 1909-1988; printed material, 1954-1981
Federated Marine Stewards and Pantrymen’s Association of AustralasiaRecords of the Australian Telecommunications Employees' Association, New South Wales Branch: minutes (1958-1988), membership register (1917-1976), subject files including correspondence with General Secretary, sub-branches in New South Wales and Canberra, other State branches, other unions, Labor Councils and Telecom, incoming and outgoing telexes, reports, Federal circulars, copies of Federal Council and Executive minutes, files of Rod Parkinson, Marilyn Toni Brown and Colin Cooper, dispute files, arbitration files and reports, and printed material. Records of the Australian Telephone and Phonogram Officers' Association, New South Wales Branch: membership records (1960s-1970s), subject files (1980s) including arbitration material, Telecom Consultative Council material, files relating to working conditions and occupational health and safety issues. Joint ATEA/ATPOA material (1988-1992) includes subject files, copies of Federal Council minutes, outgoing correspondence and telexes, circulars, and branch reports. Also includes membership cards for the Amalgamated Postal Workers' Union of Australia/Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union (1940s-1970s).
Australian Telecommunications Employees' AssociationOffice and research files, election notes and press cuttings, subject files including Bionic Products Pty Ltd, Comalco Ltd, No Base Campaign and the Union of Christmas Island Workers. Includes published book by Peter Cullen (1991)
Peter Cullen Proprietary LimitedMinutes of Federal Executive (1925-1991), Federal Council (1945-1989) and some Branch minutes, correspondence and membership records, administrative and subject files, arbitration material including State award files. Material dated after the 1991 amalgamation is created by the Australian Services Union.
Municipal Officers' Association of AustraliaOffice and industrial files re workers compensation appeal case, reports, correspondence, pamphlets and publications. Includes material relating to Launceston, Burnie, Devonport and Hobart Sub-Branches.
Australian Railways UnionMinutes of Canberra branch (1957-1980), copies of Federal Office minutes (1960-1985), reports, subject files, arbitration material, membership records (1976-1981), rules and printed material.
Transport Workers' Union of AustraliaMinutes of Victorian Branch meetings, 1909-1917; Committee of Management minutes, 1948-1965, minutes of Stopwork meetings, 1950s-1980s; Federal Office Secretary’s reports, 1948-1984, correspondence/subject files A-Z, 1948-1984; Shipboard Committees’ records, 1950-1984; reports, mainly concerning maritime matters, 1927-1981; arbitration and maritime enquiry records, 1940s-1970s; rules and awards, 1900-1996; photographs, 1911-1980s; sound recordings, 1963; drawings and plans, circa 1950s; press cuttings, 1950s-1980s; printed material, 1930s-1980s.
Seamen’s Union of AustraliaThis deposit includes minutes of Council and Executive meetings and conferences (1946 - 1980, 1990, 1992), Annual Conference reports of the Australian Teachers Federation (1944 - 1992), central files (1981 - 1990), and printed material.
Australian Teachers' FederationThis deposit includes council minutes and agenda papers, committee records, annual conference minutes and agenda papers, handbooks, transcripts and TAFE college agreements.
Technical Teachers' Union of VictoriaMinutes of the Council and Executive, correspondence and subject files, and records relating to Cattlecare.
Cattle Council of AustraliaCSR Limited Raw Sugar Marketing Division financial records, sugar industry circulars and inquiries, statistical records, marketing and general records concerning sugar production in Australia and Fiji. Historical files in this deposit include Miss Hollingworth's memoirs 1974, Industry Assistance Commission (IAC) reports and agreements, CSR and Queensland Government Contract, Cane Prices Board history, and the international sugar industry.
Colonial Sugar Refining Company LimitedIndustrial files on awards and agreements; and general subject files on wages, superannuation, industrial registrar, delegations and visits, health & safety, Executive & Council, union and branch rules, technological change, Aboriginal issues, public service, apprenticeships, union finances, overseas printing industries and others.
Printing and Kindred Industries UnionMinutes of the Federated Carters' and Drivers' Industrial Union/Transport Workers' Union Queensland Branch (1916-1983 with gaps), Brisbane sub-branch (1914-1982 with gaps) and Warwick sub-branch (1924-1976), correspondence and reports, membership records (1923-1926, 1964-1973) and financial records.
Transport Workers' Union of AustraliaThis deposit includes research notes on Canadian railways from Butlin's time at Harvard University as a Rockefeller Fellow, his 1979 Harvard lectures, research data for publications (including computer printouts relating to Aboriginal population simulations for his book 'Our Original Aggression'), and drafts of publications including for two posthumous publications, 'Economics and the Dreamtime' and 'Forming a Colonial Economy'. There are copies of many articles, papers and books written by Butlin and Butlin's own signed copies of some publications by others. There is also a small collection of publications by Professor W K Hancock inscribed to Noel and Joan Butlin.
Butlin, Noel GeorgeMicrofilm copy of Monash University PhD thesis by Graham Dunkley 'The ACTU 1927-50: Politics, organisation and economic policy', based on research into the records of the Australian Council of Trade Unions.
Dunkley, GrahamCopies of records relevant to the 1907 Harvester Judgement case heard in the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration before Justice Higgins.
Noel Butlin Archives CentreContains subject files from the General Manager's and Manager of Corporate Affairs.
Tooth and Company LimitedMinutes, membership records, correspondence, reports, rules, awards and agreements, financial records, subject files (classified and unclassified), office and ship files, records relating to cases heard before Court of Marine Inquiry, arbitration and industrial records, newspaper cuttings and printed material.
Merchant Service Guild of AustraliaThis material derives mainly from S J Butlin's term as a Professor in the Economic History Department at ANU and is concerned with his work on Australian monetary and banking history and the history of the Reserve Bank of Australia. It includes research notes from letter books, correspondence and other material of the Bank of Australasia (1835-1951), the Bank of South Australia (1837-1892) and the Union Bank of Australia (1840-1951) and other banks, copies of documents from parliamentary papers and other sources in envelopes, card indexes, microfilms of original material and printed material including annual reports of banks, pamphlets and books. Also includes files relating to the formation and operations of the Economics Society of Australia (1928-1955).
Butlin, Sydney James Christopher LyonMinutes, membership and employment records, financial, social and arbitration material, subject files, scrap books, traders’ ledger cards, licensees records, reports, papers relating to royal commissions, publications, posters and memorabilia. Includes records of predecessors - City and Provincial Licensed Victuallers Association, United Licensed Victuallers Association and the ULVA Sporting News Pty Ltd and AHA Publications Pty Ltd.
Australian Hotels AssociationMinutes of Federal Council (1915-1974) and Committee of Management (1948-1973), office files, correspondence, arbitration material, ACTU Congress minutes (1927-1971) and copies of Branch Committee minutes (1972-1988).
Transport Workers' Union of AustraliaMinutes, correspondence and subject files, financial and arbitration records, membership records, medical files, divisional circulars, photographs and publications. Includes records of NSW Branches - Randwick, Sydney, Picton, Broken Hill, Bathurst, Enfield and Ivanhoe and the Cab Committee, and documents relating to the Granville Train Disaster.
Australian Federated Union of Locomotive EnginemenThis deposit continues from deposit N12. Minute books, office files and miscellaneous subject files, financial records, membership cards and records, circulars, industry material and awards, contribution book, correspondence, reports and rules. Includes records of predecessors the Advertiser Chapel, the South Australian Typographical Sick Benefit Society, and the Federated Photo Engravers, Photo-Lithographers and Photogravure Employees Association.
Printing and Kindred Industries UnionPapers of Research Officer Sandra Prerost employed by the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the Council of Australian Government Employee Organisations to prepare submissions to the Committee of Enquiry into Technological Change in Australia (the Myers Enquiry), and of William Mansfield, Federal Secretary of the Australian Telecom Employees' Association and the ACTU representative on the committee. Includes publications collected by Chris Fisher including submissions to the Enquiry.
Australian Council of Trade UnionsThis deposit contains minutes of meetings, annual reports and newsletters from the South Australian branch.
Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers AustraliaCorrespondence, order book, financial records, stock book and files, production returns and work sheets, factory building plans, machinery and equipment plans, photographs, presentation cup and stand, records of family members and early history of the firm, printed material including advertisements.
Laycock, Son and Company Proprietary LimitedUnion files of the Sheet Metal Workers Union including arbitration material, correspondence; wage campaign materials, reports and Vietnam war documents. Tom Wright’s personal papers and notes, including some correspondence; his large collection of political pamphlets, leaflets, serials, press cuttings, cartoons and photographs, books, notably material on Aboriginal and women’s rights. Mary Wrights' pamphlets and memorabilia relating to the Union of Australian Women, photographs and a poster.
Wright, MaryMaterial relating to registration and rules of the Waterside Workers’ Federation, 1907-1940; Triennial Conference Minutes, 1937; Committee of Management Minutes, 1902-1935, 1938-1939; Minutes of various Conferences, 1928-1940; General Secretary’s correspondence, 1911-1943; financial and membership records, 1902-1948; documents concerning arbitration and industrial matters, 1900-1954; sound recording, 1954; photographs and pictures, 1912-1950; printed material, 1920-1962.
Waterside Workers’ Federation of AustraliaRules, minutes of NSW Branch (1914-1938), Federal Council (1934-1949) and conferences, correspondence, arbitration material, membership records (1916-1960), financial records, shed returns, printed material and photographs.
Woolclassers' Association of New South WalesMinutes of Federal Council and Federal Committee of Management, Federal Secretary's reports, general and branch correspondence, industrial files, financial records, facsimiles (1990s) and printed material. Includes International Union of Food Workers material.
Federated Liquor and Allied Industries Employees' Union of AustraliaThis deposit consists of ACT Preschool Association minutes (1977 - 1982), Secondary Teachers' Association minutes (1975 - 1977), ACT Schools Authority discussion papers (1987), ACT Commonwealth Teachers' Federation/ACT Teachers' Federation executive minutes (1972 - 1983), Council minutes of the ACT Commonwealth Teachers' Federation (1972 - 1983), minutes of ACT Teachers' Federation representatives on ACT Schools Authority (1982 - 1987), subject files (1974 - 1989), Conciliation and Arbitration records - transcript, files and decisions and miscellaneous files.
Australian Capital Territory Teachers' FederationSubject files of the Associated Chambers of Manufactures and the Confederation of Australian Industry (1949-1981) including minutes, rules, correspondence with government and other organisations, photographs and printed material, tariff files, press releases and cuttings. Records of the Chamber of Manufactures of New South Wales (1916-1977) relating to their membership of the Associated Chambers of Manufactures including correspondence, papers of Executive meetings and conferences and correspondence relating to the Canberra Letter. Also includes records of the Pre-Cast Concrete Manufacturers Association, the Australia/Malaysia-Singapore Business Co-operation Committee, the Australian Textile, Apparel and Related Industries Conference, the Housing Industry Association and the Venetian Blind Manufacturers Association of Australia.
Associated Chambers of Manufactures of AustraliaMinutes of the Australian Farmers' Federation (1969-1979), correspondence, subject files and printed material of the Australian Farmers' Federation, the Australian Primary Producers' Union, the National Farmers' Union of Australia and the Australian Vegetable Growers' Federation.
Norquay, Alexander StewartBranch correspondence, 1980-1988; Shipboard Committees’ minute books, 1968-1978, membership records, 1949-1990 (with gaps); seamen’s white cards, 1960-1977; administration files, 1979-1988; subject files, 1935-1988; material relating to the early years of the union including Fitzpatrick’s draft of the Seamen’s Union history, 1972-1979; includes, also, some 1980s Professional Divers' Association of Australia records.
Seamen’s Union of AustraliaMinutes and reports, correspondence files, financial and membership records, wages book, annual federal conference material, arbitration material, industrial files, amalgamation files, office files, newsletters and bulletins.
Association of Architects, Engineers, Surveyors and Draughtsmen of AustraliaFederated Seamen’s Union/Seamen’s Union of Australia Sydney Branch records, 1907-1980; Seamen’s Union of Australia Shipboard Committees papers, 1952-1990; financial records, 1958-1970; industrial awards, 1950-1982; minutes of stopwork meetings, 1957-1969; arbitration records, 1969-1976; industrial files, 1930-1967; Sydney Branch membership records, 1932-1987; correspondence/subject files, 1950-1985; Sydney Branch minute books, 1955-1980; Newcastle Branch minute book, 1933-1947; other branch minute books, 1967-1979; Maritime 100 Club financial records, 1972-1975; Firemen and Deckhands’ Union of NSW industrial awards and agreements, rules, newsletters and circulars, 1922-1980; Marine Drivers’ and Motor Coxswains’ Association of NSW correspondence, 1940-1967; NSW Dredge and Maritime Services Board Employees’ Association minute books, membership records, correspondence/subject files, 1918-1972; photographs, 1950s-1970s.
Seamen’s Union of AustraliaThis deposit includes circulars, subject files and office manager files.
Australian Teachers' FederationThis deposit contains correspondence files, circulars, arbitration material and some membership and financial records. It includes both Head Office and New South Wales Division records.
Professional Radio and Electronics Institute of AustralasiaMinutes of the Executive Committee, District Councils (Canonbar, Central Tablelands, Dubbo, Hunter, Lachlan, Mudgee, Monaro, Narrandera, New England, North Coast, North West, Southern Tablelands, South West and Tamworth), branches (Angeldool - Young) and committees, correspondence with indexes, subject files, circulars, financial records and printed material including 1890s publications of the Pastoralists' Union of NSW, other State pastoralists' organisations, the Machine Shearers' and Shed Employees' Union and other unions.
Pastoralists' Union of New South WalesSubject and correspondence files including files for Executive meetings, trades and labor councils, affiliated unions, committees, outside bodies, Secretary's files (see also N21 and N68), minutes files 1927-1979, files of President Cliff Dolan 1980-1985 (items 347-365, 436-467) and President Simon Crean 1985-1991 (items 468-485, 670-751), Research Officer Rod Overall's files (items 418-435) and Art in Working Life project files (items 627-669).
Australian Council of Trade UnionsNon-member partner files.
Sydney Stock ExchangeRecords of the NSW Division including minutes, circulars, reports and printed material.
Australian Association of Scientific WorkersOne file containing maps, correspondence, leases and court documents.
Burns Philp and Company LimitedMember files
Sydney Stock ExchangeIncludes minutes, Brisbane Stock Exchange Official Lists, quote sheets, circulars, correspondence files circulars and member firm files.
Brisbane Stock Exchange LimitedThe prescription books are registers recording medications dispensed by the pharmacy on a daily basis. The details recorded include date dispensed, name and address of customer, and the pharmaceutical preparation or drugs dispensed. There are name indexes in the front of each volume. From 1952 to 1963 there is a second run of registers for medications dispensed under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Act.
Woodlands PharmacyMaterial used in the preparation of the book Teachers Education and Politics by Dr Bruce Mitchell (1975). Includes file of the National Association of Labor Teachers.
Mitchell, Bruce ArthurFinancial and legal records, including wage books and motel bookings.
Alaric Holdings Proprietary LimitedFiles on media companies including prospectuses, annual reports and investment reports prepared by Dobrijevic while working for stockbroking companies including BZW Australia Limited, ABN AMRO Australia Limited, BNP Equities Australia Limited and Salomon Smith Barney, later Citigroup Global Markets Australia
Dobrijevic, PeterMinute 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.
Factory Employees' Union of AustralasiaNotes made by Terry Goulden during his work at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney.
Goulden, TerryThe collection includes the Memorandum and Articles of Association, an early minute book, a membership list and various publications, including some of the Institute of Clerks of Works of Great Britain on which the Australian equivalents were based. Records of Jack Roberts include a memoir and correspondence relating to the Sydney Opera House project.
Clerk of Works Institute of AustraliaThis deposit contains member files and an incomplete set of circulars to members from 1974 - 1988.
Stock Exchange of HobartRecords relating to the dispute concerning the non-payment of untaken sick leave to ex-employees of the Sydney County Council by the Electricity Commission of NSW as collected by Ron McGann. Includes correspondence, notes and transcripts of legal cases.
McGann, Ron