Minutes of State Executive, Cardiff Workshops Sub-branch, Tasmanian and NSW branches, and state social committee; office files, rules and constitutions, arbitration material, leaflets, pamphlets, press cuttings, printed material and photographs.
National Union of Rail Workers of AustraliaThis deposit consists of transcripts of evidence and exhibits covering cases before the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, the High Court and the Public Service Arbitrator (Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority case). Includes records re change of conditions of eligibility for membership.
Association of Professional Engineers, AustraliaBinders of circulars compiled and published for members of the Australian Associated Stock Exchanges by the Research and Statistical Bureau at the Sydney Stock Exchange. The date range for the entire run requires further research.
Australian Associated Stock ExchangesCopies of extracts from the Minutes of the Board of Examinations, NSW (1911-1937) and the Board of Secondary School Studies, NSW (1937-1957).
Thompson, RogerConstitution, minutes and meeting papers, correspondence, working and publication files (trade union education and editorial matters), financial papers; reports and printed material.
Australian Society for the Study of Labour HistorySamples of share certificates, receipts and correspondence of gold, silver and copper mining companies in Australia, New Guinea and South East Asia. Most of these records are in the names of Edwin George Barker, Edwin Roy Barker or John Charles Dunn.
Barker, Edwin RoyCorrespondence relating to the ALP Greek Auxiliary and the NSW School for Blind Children Equipment Committee.
Andronicus, EmmanuelPamphlets and periodicals issued by the Amalgamated Engineering Union. Includes trade manual incorporating the Boilermakers' & Blacksmiths' Society and the Sheet Metal Workers' Union.
Amalgamated Engineering UnionCopy of his MA thesis on the rise of railway unionism & Australian Workers Union (AWU) election leaflets.
Docherty, James CCopy of verbatim report of the proceedings of the 1930 ACTU Congress.
Merrifield, SamuelVolumes of press cuttings relating to general, industrial and financial matters, arbitration proceedings, Country Party, Pastures Protection Board, meat, rabbits, taxation, tariffs, transport and wool.
Pastoralists' Union of New South WalesRules and other printed material including material relating to the United Society of Curriers of Victoria (1856-1876).
Australian Leather and Allied Trades Employees' FederationFinancial records, correspondence, arbitration material, pamphlets and periodicals.
Seamen’s Union of AustraliaThis is a photocopy of Amy McGrath's manuscript on the Balmain dispute, While the Iron was Hot: a brief story of how the Communist tyranny in the Federated Ironworkers' Association was overthrown, 1944 - 1952, together with a record of the ballot forger case, 1950 - 1951.
McGrath, Amy GladysMinutes of the Victorian Branch of the Australian Third Division Telegraphists' and Postal Clerks' Union from 1922 when it began as the Australian Telegraphists' Union then the Australian Telegraphists' and Clerical Assistants' Union, till 1967. Also includes minutes of the Victorian Branch of the Fourth Division Postmasters, Postal Clerks and Telegraphists' Union including reports (1950-1959).
Australian Third Division Telegraphists' and Postal Clerks' UnionThis deposit contains office files.
Australian Teachers' FederationThis deposit contains records created by A Amos in his capacity as a union official of the Stovemakers' Union 1937-45, Sheet Metal Workers' Union 1945-72, AMWU 1972-76, AMWSU 1976-77. Correspondence, membership registers, office files, conference proceedings, research files and printed material, international publications, records of the AMWSU Women's Committee, Sydney District including minutes, financial records, scrap book of cuttings and photographs.
Sheet Metal Working Agricultural Implement and Stovemaking Industrial Union of AustraliaMinute book, rule book, certificate of registration, office files and financial records.
Merchant Tailors Cutters' Association of New South WalesThis deposit contains office files (1966 - 1974), a correspondence register (1966 - 1970), tape recordings of the Second Annual ATF Convention and printed material 1958 - 1978.
Australian Teachers' FederationMinutes of the Executive of the Australian Wool Council and Australian Woolgrowers' and Graziers' Council (1948-1972), minutes of committees and conventions, correspondence including with London representative W P Devereux (1930-1934) and with member organisations, subject files, circulars and printed material.
Australian Woolgrowers' CouncilCopies of minutes of the Executive Council (1967-1974), officers register, rules, General Secretary's files (JS Baker, then W Rowling) including correspondence, reports, minutes, arbitration material and photographs of Baker's trip to USSR, five photographs of Baker and Queensland Branch, files relating to Baker's role as Publicity Officer for NSW Division of the Australian Council for Salaried and Professional Associations including Federal Executive and NSW Division minutes, minutes of High Council of Commonwealth Public Service Organisations, and printed material.
Union of Postal Clerks and TelegraphistsMinutes of general, special and Committee of Management meetings (1947-1964), applications for membership (1915-1972) which include name, address, factory where employed, age, branch of trade and signature. There are three runs of cards: one organised alphabetically, another by date 'taken off the records' or 'resignation' from 1964 to 1972 and the third of misplaced resignations.
Federated Furnishing Trade Society of AustralasiaRule book and minute books of council and executive committee meetings
Metal Trades Federation of UnionsMinutes of National Council (1976), rule book, arbitration material, election results (1960s-1970s), badge and wooden plaque.
Federated Ironworkers' Association of AustraliaRule books, minutes, financial records, membership records, printed material.
Waterside Workers’ Federation of AustraliaMinutes of Federal Council, Committee of Management and Triennial Conferences (1963-1972) and of New South Wales Branch (1933-1970), correspondence, and arbitration files.
Association of Railway Professional Officers of AustraliaCouncil minutes and meeting papers, subject and correspondence files, ministerial files, project files, memos to members and printed material.
Council of Small Business Organisations of Australia LimitedThe deposit consists of industrial files re superannuation, contracts, awards and agreements 1951-1973; records re aircraft accidents and incidents 1955-1982, 1993; administration files 1950-1975. Includes 23 cartons of records re 1989 airline dispute that are yet to be processed.
Australian Federation of Air PilotsThis deposit contains general correspondence files from 1963 to 1982; minutes of APSA (FDO) ACT Branch and Federal Council meetings 1971 - 1982; minutes of Council of Australian Government Employee Organisations (CAGEO) ACT Branch and Federal Executive minutes 1973 - 1980; APSA posters and signs.
Australian Public Service Association (Fourth Division Officers)Minute books, rules and constitution, subject files, papers relating to Tariff Board inquiries (timber), reports, conference papers, financial records and publications. Includes records of predecessor the Hardwood Millers Association of Victoria.
Victorian Sawmillers AssociationThis deposit includes Council Minutes (1923 - 1990), Executive Minutes (1919 - 1990) , annual conference minutes, constitution and rule book and printed material.
New South Wales Teachers' FederationMinutes of the board, minutes of commitee of reference, memorandums and articles of association, subject and staff files, annual reports, property reports, financial records, year books and staff newsletters, tapes of AGM, and records of company predecessors: Grazcos Co-op Ltd, Graziers Co-op Shearing Co Ltd, Farmers and Graziers Co-op Ltd, Farmers and Settler's Co-op Grain Company Ltd. Also includes share register of Ray Bladwell & Co Ltd.
Farmers Grazcos Co-operative LimitedSubject files and office files, copies of minutes, correspondence, agenda and reports, industry material, policy documents, press releases and published material.
Sheepmeat Council of AustraliaMinutes of committees and constituent bodies including: Australian Butter Manufacturers Federation, Australian Cheese Manufacturers Federation, Australian Casein Manufacturers Association, Australian Skim Milk Powder Manufacturers Federation, Butter Allocation Advisory Committee, Casein Equalisation Advisory Committee, Commonwealth Dairy Produce Equalisation Committee Ltd, Export Butter and Cheese Packers Association, Market Milk Federation of Australia Ltd, Processed Milk Exports Australia Ltd, Skim Milk Powder Equalisation Advisory Committee, Victorian Butter Manufacturers Association, Victorian Cheese Manufacturers Association and Victorian Skim Milk Powder Manufacturers Association.
Australian Dairy Products FederationCommittee of management papers, federal council minutes (copies), federal executive papers and minutes (copies), subject files, industrial case files, court transcripts. Includes copies of minutes of the Council of Professional Associations.
Association of Professional Engineers, AustraliaMicrofilm copy of 'Report of the Federal Australian Labor Party Committee of Inquiry into the Alleged Faked Ballot Boxes'.
Australian Workers' UnionMinutes of meetings, correspondence and reports relating to the establishment and operation of the Council of Professional and Commercial Employees' Associations, later the Council of White Collar Associations and then the Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations, Federal Executive meeting files, minutes of the Salaried Employees' Consultative Council of New South Wales and the Council of White Collar Associations (1956), divisional minutes for NSW, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania, administrative files, rules, financial records, conference files, subject files and printed material including International Labour Office, Yugoslavian, Czechoslovakian and Vietnamese labour publications. Also includes two Union Festival of the Arts banners and a White Collar Festival visitors' book (1961).
Council of Professional and Commercial Employees' AssociationsRecords of the Perth Office including balance books, ledgers, profit and loss accounts, balance sheets and stock and share registers.
Goldsbrough Mort and CompanyMinutes, office files, annual conference records, circulars and financial records. See also the Wool Council of Australia
Australian Wool and Meat Producers' FederationThis deposit contains executive minutes, national council minutes, records of conference proceedings, office files and rules. It contains records of organisations connected with the Administrative and Clerical Officers Association namely the High Council of Commonwealth Public Service Organisations, the Joint Council of Australian Government Employee Organisations (CAGEO) and predecessors, the Clerical and Professional Association and the Commonwealth Fifth Class Clerks Association.
Administrative and Clerical Officers' Association, Commonwealth Public ServiceStation records, correspondence, financial and legal records, typed transcript of JF Castle's private journal
Cavan StationMinutes of meetings, correspondence, financial records, membership register (1914-1953), rules, Eight Hour Day posters, photographs from the New South Wales branch, and a ballot box and other items.
Operative Masons' Society of South AustraliaDaily newspapers, occasional bulletins, and broadsheets published in London during the General Strike in Great Britain. Includes minute records and catalogue card.
Rimmer, MalcolmMinutes, press cuttings (covering maritime disputes), rules and printed material. Includes papers of the editor RJ Morris re minutes and reports for The Australian Foremen Stevedores' Association Review, diaries and membership lists and records of predecessor the Sydney Foremen Stevedores Association.
Australian Foremen Stevedores' AssociationMinutes of Federal Council and Federal Conference (1959-1967) and NSW Branch (1959-1972), membership cards (1921-1972), correspondence and office files, financial records and printed material.
Woolclassers' Association of New South WalesOffice files, rough minutes, printed material and press cuttings of the Equal Pay Committee of which Dr K R Makinson was the convenor.
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Officers' AssociationMinutes of Australasian Society of Engineers Adelaide No. 3 Branch (1916-1920), Walleroo Branch (1921-1952), SA Branch (1914-1929, 1939-1991), South Australian Executive Committee (1942-1991), Federation of Industrial Manufacturing and Engineering Employees SA Executive Committee (1991-1993), subject files, financial records, and photographs.
Australasian Society of EngineersCorrespondence between FIA and other organisations (1945-1946) and Australian Labor Party material forwarded to Laurie Short as a member of the Central Executive of the New South Wales Branch.
Federated Ironworkers' Association of AustraliaMinutes (1967), correspondence and press cuttings relating to the Five Day Week campaign and the 1970 dispute, financial records, arbitration material and printed material.
Union of Postal Clerks and TelegraphistsMinutes of the National Executive Council (1938-1944), the Amalgamated Ironworkers' Assistants of New South Wales (1901-1905), the Wireworkers' Union of New South Wales (1901-1906), FIA Sydney Branch (1914-1953), Newcastle Branch (1942-1960), Port Kembla Branch (1943-1953), Victorian Branch (1940-1960), and Queensland Branch (1949-1956).
Federated Ironworkers' Association of AustraliaQueensland Branch minutes, newsletters and correspondence. Also includes copies of Executive minutes and minutes and newsletters of the South Australian, Victorian, Western Australian and Fruit Inspectors' (Mildura) Branches.
Meat Inspectors' Association, Australian Public ServiceTranscripts of applications to the Arbitration Commission.
Woolclassers' Association of AustraliaCorrespondence sent and received by Secretary of the North Australian Workers' Union, L J McPhillips.
North Australian Workers' UnionPapers relating to the South Australia Land Commission, Western Australia and New South Wales Urban Land Councils, the Victorian Land Council and the Australian Housing Corporation, 1968–1979. Includes agenda papers, minutes, correspondence, aerial photographs, printed material and a draft manuscript of Troy’s book, A Fair Price: The Lands Commission Program 1972-1977.
Troy, Patrick (Pat) NicolMinutes of the Newcastle Coal Trimmers' Federal Union and the Waterside Workers' Federation, Newcastle Coal Trimmers' Branch, 1909-1950; financial records, 1951-1956; contribution books, 1927-1937; list of members, 1959; arbitration material, 1917, 1945.
Waterside Workers’ Federation of AustraliaFinancial records of membership and mortality fund with an alphabetical index of names in the first volume for each calendar year.
National Union of Rail Workers of AustraliaSouth Australian Branch minutes of meetings, correspondence, financial records, newsletters and membership records (1945-1959). Also includes copies of minutes of the Executive, copies of minutes and newsletters of Queensland, New South Wales, Victorian, West Australian and Fruit Inspectors' Branches and copies of minutes of Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations and High Council of Commonwealth Public Service (1960s).
Meat Inspectors' Association, Australian Public ServiceMinutes 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.
Australian Workers' UnionMinutes and Secretary's files for annual general meetings, Executive Committee and Executive Council meetings including minutes of affiliated organisations, reports and financial statements.
Australian Council of Employers' FederationsMinutes of the Queensland branch (1937-1954, 1959-1965), arbitration material, correspondence and 1959 conference papers.
Fourth Division Postmasters', Postal Clerks' and Telegraphists' UnionMinutes of Queensland Branch (1950-1962), correspondence, annual and financial reports, membership register, rules, papers of conferences (1952-1959) and printed material.
Australian Third Division Telegraphists' and Postal Clerks' UnionMiscellaneous minutes, branch and federal correspondence, membership lists, arbitration material, circulars and leaflets.
Federated Furnishing Trade Society of AustralasiaMinute book containing minutes of meetings re. formation of the Esperance Branch of the Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia, 1924, 1926 and minutes of Branch Committee, Special and General meetings, 1926-1929 (including ); Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia membership register (?members resident in Esperance), 1907-1909; Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia cash book (?members resident in Esperance), 1909-1910. The Esperance Branch of the Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia was formed on 3 March 1926.
Waterside Workers’ Federation of AustraliaDivisional and Branch minutes, correspondence with Branches, rules, membership list (1961), arbitration material, financial records, and printed material. Includes material from predecessor the United Bank Officers' Association.
Commonwealth Bank Officers' AssociationMinutes of meetings of Executive Council and Victorian, Queensland, South Australian, New South Wales, Tasmanian and Western Australian Branches, 1957-1966, conference papers, correspondence and constitution and rules.
Fourth Division Postmasters', Postal Clerks' and Telegraphists' UnionMinutes of general and special minutes of the Federal Executive, correspondence and memoranda, arbitration material, financial records, reports, ballot papers and printed material.
Association of Architects, Engineers, Surveyors and Draughtsmen of AustraliaAustralian Boot Trade Employees' Federation, Tasmanian Branch was also known as the Hobart Sub-Branch of the Victorian Branch, or the Hobart Division the Hobart Branch as well as the Tasmanian Branch. Minutes (1913-1950), correspondence, financial and membership records (1909-1963), determinations of the Hobart Sub-Branch (1926-1930), claims for mortality (funeral) allowances (1917-1951, 1955-1961), and minutes of the Federal Council and Federal Executive (1927-1937)
Australian Boot Trade Employees' FederationCopies of minutes and other papers of Federal Council meetings (1937-1959), correspondence, rules, arbitration material and South Australian Branch Mortality Fund book (1928-1960).
Transport Workers' Union of AustraliaMinutes of general meetings and Committee of Management meetings, correspondence, reports, members contribution details (1912-1918, 1942), rule books and one framed photograph.
Australian Timber Workers' UnionMinutes of annual conferences and Council meetings and financial and other reports.
Australian Teachers' FederationMembership records (c. 1956), correspondence, rules, financial records including Launceston Branch, arbitration files and printed material.
Federated Liquor and Allied Industries Employees' Union of AustraliaMinutes, correspondence, rules and constitution, membership cards and contributions, reports, wages determinations, financial records and publications.
Baking Trades Employees' Federation of AustraliaMinutes of meetings, alphabetical register of members, financial records, newspaper cuttings and rules.
Amalgamated Timber Workers' Union of AustraliaMinutes (1950-1957), rules, papers relating to demarcation disputes, and cash book.
Plumbers and Gasfitters Employees' Union of AustraliaMinutes of Tasmanian Branch (1941-1952), financial records, rules and printed material.
Amalgamated Postal Workers' Union of AustraliaMinute books, correspondence, financial records and a history of the union (1858 - 1958).
Federated Moulders' (Metals) Union of AustraliaMinutes of State Council (1943-1955) and Hobart Branch (1938-1956) of the Transport Workers' Union and of the Launceston Branch of the Federated Carters' and Drivers' Industrial Union (1905-1917), correspondence, rules, membership registers and financial records.
Transport Workers' Union of AustraliaMinutes of general meetings and meetings of the management committee (1928-1952), cashbooks (1928-1954), award and award variations made by the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration (1940s-1950s), logs of claims (1946, 1949, c. 1952), rule book (c. 1940), Launceston trade union directory (1931, 1934), and printed material include including a Short History of British Trade Unionism (1947) and Sweden's Cotton Industry (1949).
Australian Textile Workers' UnionRecords include minutes of Central, Southern, Wynyard and Devonport branches; minutes of the federal executive and Australian Council of AFULE; agendas and reports, correspondence, financial records, press cuttings, membership records, arbitration material, rules, and a copy of the certificate of registration. The deposit also contains reports and balance sheets relating to the Australian Locomotive Enginemen's Newspaper Co Pty Ltd, and records of predecessor the Tasmanian Division of the Federated Locomotive Engine Drivers, Firemen and Cleaners' Association of Australia.
Australian Federated Union of Locomotive EnginemenCorrespondence received by the General Secretary of the Clothing and Allied Trades Union of Australia from P.J. Sheehan concerning the Clothing Trades (1957) Award.
Clothing and Allied Trades Union of AustraliaFiles including minutes, constitution and rules, membership lists, branch financial statements, conference papers, arbitration material and printed material. Includes minutes of Tasmanian sub-branch (1961-1983).
Australian Postmasters' AssociationPort Adelaide Tugs (Ritch & Smith Tug Company) correspondence, roster, award and voyage agreements, 1950-1984; ships decommissioned A-Z and correspondence/subject files, 1946-1988 (includes general correspondence concerning Seamen’s Union involvement in the war in South Vietnam).
Seamen’s Union of AustraliaPersonal and political papers, including pamphlets of William and Lily Bergin, British immigrants active in the Australian labour movement. The deposit consists correspondence, photograph, rules of the Victorian Plasterers' Society, membership cards and printed material, most of which is related to the labour and socialist movements in Britain, USA and Australia before the depression.
Bergin, WilliamBranch office files including Branch Committee minutes (1988-1991), dispute reports and files on working conditions.
Australian Bank Employees' UnionThis deposit contains files, transparencies, negatives, glass plates and prints.
Colonial Sugar Refining Company LimitedMembership cards – Federal Office and various Branches
Waterside Workers’ Federation of AustraliaPharmaceutical prescription books 1951–1980, National Health Scheme prescription books, 1952–1955.
Chew, Ronald WMinutes, membership records, rule books and awards. Includes records of predecessors the Port Adelaide Shipwrights' Society and rule books of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners of Australia.
Federated Shipwrights' and Ship Constructors' Association of AustraliaMinutes of meetings of the Operative Painters and Paperhangers Society of South Australia (1890-1893), the Federated Building Trades Union (1892-1899) and the Operative Painters and Decorators Union (1909-1932) and rule books.
Operative Painters and Paperhangers' Society of South AustraliaMinutes 1908-1913, 1916-1928, correspondence 1939-1943, arbitration material 1922-1926, logs of claims and awards material 1957-1960, and rules. Also includes minutes of the Ready-made Clothing Trade Employees' Association of South Australia which was formed at the instigation of the South Australian Branch of the Federated Clothing Trades of the Commonwealth of Australia Industrial Association of Employees in March 1912 and was dissolved in May 1913.
Clothing and Allied Trades Union of AustraliaMinute books of state council, executive and branch meetings; correspondence, subject files re wage claims and awards, financial records, membership and industrial files, press cuttings and publications. Includes records of branches and predecessor the South Australian Government General Workers' Association.
Australian Government Workers' AssociationMinutes, correspondence, attendance book and membership records, financial records, contribution and rule books.
Shop Assistants' and Warehouse Employees' Federation of AustraliaMinutes of National Conference (1908-1945), National Council (1922, 1943-1947, 1952-1953), New South Wales State Council (1916-1958), the Amalgamated Ironworkers' Assistants of New South Wales (1905-1909), Sydney Branch (1912-1914, 1940-1943, 1948-1950), Balmain Branch (1936-1945), the Foundry Workers' Joint Management Committee (1936-1944), the Wire Workers' Union of NSW (1928-1938), the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Assistants' Society of South Australia (1908-1914) and the SA Branch (1917-1919), rulebooks and other printed material.
Federated Ironworkers' Association of AustraliaMinutes (1886-1896, 1909-1957), correspondence, financial records, records relating to 1919 Tooth's strike, and membership records (1937-1950, some earlier).
Journeymen Coopers' Society of New South WalesMinutes of meetings (1930-1957), correspondence, contribution book (1916-1917, 1945-1949), financial records and rule book.
Operative Bricklayers', Tilers' and Tuckpointers' Society of South AustraliaMinutes of the Reform Group (1981-1985) and subject files (1976-1985) including a history of the group written by Peter Ellett, one of its founders, and later material about the Public Service Union Action Group (1990-1993). The Reform Group operated at both branch and Federal level and stood rank-and-file progressive candidates in union elections against conservative incumbents, alleged to be supported by the National Civic Council. Also includes a history of the Postmaster-General's Department/Telecom sub-branch delegates' committee covering 1935-1966.
Administrative and Clerical Officers' Association, Commonwealth Public ServiceCorrespondence, arbitration and financial records, membership records, reports and publications. Includes correspondence records of predecessor the South Australian Locomotive Engine Drivers and Firemen's Association.
Australian Federated Union of Locomotive EnginemenMinutes of South Australian Branch (1939-1961), correspondence, membership register (1921-1935), financial records and printed material.
Federated Coopers of AustraliaMinutes of the NSW Branch and predecessor the Amalgamated Railway and Tramway Service Association, reports, correspondence, membership records, circulars, press cuttings, memorabilia and publications.
Australian Railways UnionThis is a collection of material from predecessor unions to the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union particularly from New South Wales including: the United Plasterers' Society/Operative Plasterers' Federation, the United Operative Bricklayers' Trade Society, the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners, the Operative Stonemasons' Society, the Operative Painters and Decorators Union, the Federated Engine Drivers' and Firemen's Association, and the Building Workers' Industrial Union including files of Frank Purse, Ron Monaghan, Brian Miller (May Day), Warren Baker, newsclippings relating to amalgamations and the Builders' Labourers' Federation, stickers, posters and printed material. The posters are mainly from the CFMEU National Office and New South Wales Branch, the Builders' Labourers' Federation and the Building Trades Group of Unions and date from the 1970s to 2006.
Operative Plasterers' Federation of Australia