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AU NBAC N7 · Deposit · 1918 - 1977

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 Australia
AU NBAC N4 · Deposit · 1948 - 1969

This 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, Australia
Investment Service circulars
AU NBAC P138 · Deposit · c. 1949 - c. 1961

Binders 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 Exchanges
Roger Thompson papers
AU NBAC P137 · Deposit · 1911 - 1957

Copies of extracts from the Minutes of the Board of Examinations, NSW (1911-1937) and the Board of Secondary School Studies, NSW (1937-1957).

Thompson, Roger
AU NBAC P132 · Deposit · 1961 - 1977

Constitution, 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 History
Edwin Roy Barker Collection
AU NBAC P116 · Deposit · 1950s

Samples 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 Roy
E Andronicus Collection
AU NBAC P111 · Deposit · 1940 - 1969

Correspondence relating to the ALP Greek Auxiliary and the NSW School for Blind Children Equipment Committee.

Andronicus, Emmanuel
AU NBAC P109 · Deposit · 1961; 1965 - 1972

Pamphlets and periodicals issued by the Amalgamated Engineering Union. Includes trade manual incorporating the Boilermakers' & Blacksmiths' Society and the Sheet Metal Workers' Union.

Amalgamated Engineering Union
James Docherty collection
AU NBAC P106 · Deposit · 1971 - 1974

Copy of his MA thesis on the rise of railway unionism & Australian Workers Union (AWU) election leaflets.

Docherty, James C
Sam Merrifield Collection
AU NBAC P105 · Deposit · 1930

Copy of verbatim report of the proceedings of the 1930 ACTU Congress.

Merrifield, Samuel
AU NBAC P104 · Deposit · 1890 - 1939

Volumes 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 Wales
Amy McGrath Collection
AU NBAC P35 · Deposit · 1944 - 1952

This 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 Gladys
AU NBAC E278 · Deposit · 1922 - 1967

Minutes 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' Union
AU NBAC E262 · Deposit · 1937 - 1977

This 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 Australia
AU NBAC E253 · Deposit · 1950 - 1978

This 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' Federation
AU NBAC E246 · Deposit · 1929 - 1975

Minutes 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' Council
AU NBAC E243 · Deposit · 1953 - 1978

Copies 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 Telegraphists
AU NBAC E240 · Deposit · 1915 - 1972

Minutes 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 Australasia
AU NBAC E237 · Deposit · 1918 - 1970

Minutes of National Council (1976), rule book, arbitration material, election results (1960s-1970s), badge and wooden plaque.

Federated Ironworkers' Association of Australia
AU NBAC E233 · Deposit · 1933 - 1973

Minutes 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 Australia
AU NBAC Z383 · Deposit · 1975 - 2001

Council 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 Limited
AU NBAC Z658 · Deposit · 1948 - 1982; 1993

The 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 Pilots
AU NBAC Z198 · Deposit · 1963 - 1980

This 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)
AU NBAC Z261 · Deposit · 1910 - 1974

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 Association
AU NBAC Z327 · Deposit · 1923 - 1994

This deposit includes Council Minutes (1923 - 1990), Executive Minutes (1919 - 1990) , annual conference minutes, constitution and rule book and printed material.

New South Wales Teachers' Federation
AU NBAC Z278 · Deposit · 1917 - 1984

Minutes 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 Limited
AU NBAC Z325 · Deposit · 1975 - 1991

Subject files and office files, copies of minutes, correspondence, agenda and reports, industry material, policy documents, press releases and published material.

Sheepmeat Council of Australia
AU NBAC Z318 · Deposit · 1946 - 1981

Minutes 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 Federation
AU NBAC Z243 · Deposit · 1948 - 1995

Committee 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, Australia
AU NBAC M53 · Deposit · 1924

Microfilm copy of 'Report of the Federal Australian Labor Party Committee of Inquiry into the Alleged Faked Ballot Boxes'.

Australian Workers' Union
AU NBAC N10 · Deposit · 1948 - 1979

Minutes 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' Associations
AU NBAC 106 · Deposit · 1928 - 1963

Records of the Perth Office including balance books, ledgers, profit and loss accounts, balance sheets and stock and share registers.

Goldsbrough Mort and Company
AU NBAC N77 · Deposit · 1945 - 1980

Minutes, office files, annual conference records, circulars and financial records. See also the Wool Council of Australia

Australian Wool and Meat Producers' Federation
AU NBAC Z237 · Deposit · 1908 - 1989

This 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 Service
Cavan Station deposit 1
AU NBAC 7 · Deposit · 1835 - 1942

Station records, correspondence, financial and legal records, typed transcript of JF Castle's private journal

Cavan Station
AU NBAC E86 · Deposit · 1914 - 1962

Minutes 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 Australia
Malcolm Rimmer Collection
AU NBAC N49 · Deposit · 1926

Daily newspapers, occasional bulletins, and broadsheets published in London during the General Strike in Great Britain. Includes minute records and catalogue card.

Rimmer, Malcolm
AU NBAC N48 · Deposit · 1920 - 1978

Minutes, 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' Association
AU NBAC N40 · Deposit · 1921 - 1974

Minutes 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 Wales
AU NBAC Z479 · Deposit · 1904 - 1993

Minutes 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 Engineers
AU NBAC E180 · Deposit · 1945 - 1971

Correspondence 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 Australia
AU NBAC E176 · Deposit · 1963 - 1970

Minutes (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 Telegraphists
AU NBAC E175 · Deposit · 1901 - 1960

Minutes 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 Australia
AU NBAC E174 · Deposit · 1958 - 1969

Queensland 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 Service
AU NBAC E172 · Deposit · 1948 - 1959

Transcripts of applications to the Arbitration Commission.

Woolclassers' Association of Australia
AU NBAC E170A · Deposit · 1942 - 1944

Correspondence sent and received by Secretary of the North Australian Workers' Union, L J McPhillips.

North Australian Workers' Union
AU NBAC N34 · Deposit · c. 1968 -1979

Papers 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) Nicol
AU NBAC E166 · Deposit · 1909 - 1956

Minutes 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 Australia
AU NBAC E159 · Deposit · 1945 - 1966

South 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 Service
AU NBAC E158 · Deposit · 1958 - 1969

Minutes 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' Union
AU NBAC Z640 · Deposit · 1948 - 1971

Minutes 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' Federations
AU NBAC E148 · Deposit · 1907 - 1929

Minute 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 Australia
AU NBAC E146 · Deposit · 1927 - 1963

Divisional 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' Association
AU NBAC E143 · Deposit · 1945 - 1967

Minutes 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' Union
AU NBAC E134 · Deposit · 1909 - 1963

Australian 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' Federation
AU NBAC E132 · Deposit · 1928 - 1963

Copies 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 Australia
AU NBAC E130 · Deposit · 1912 - 1957

Minutes 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' Union
AU NBAC E128 · Deposit · 1937 - 1945

Minutes of annual conferences and Council meetings and financial and other reports.

Australian Teachers' Federation
AU NBAC E120 · Deposit · 1905 - 1963

Minutes 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 Australia
AU NBAC E119 · Deposit · 1928 - 1955

Minutes 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' Union
AU NBAC E118 · Deposit · 1896 - 1965

Records 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 Enginemen
AU NBAC E115 · Deposit · 1950s

Correspondence 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 Australia
AU NBAC Z558 · Deposit · 1915 - 1991

Files 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' Association
AU NBAC Z467 · Deposit · 1946-1988

Port 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 Australia
AU NBAC N30 · Deposit · 1869; 1912 - 1947

Personal 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, William
AU NBAC Z730 · Deposit · 1933 - 1986

This deposit contains files, transparencies, negatives, glass plates and prints.

Colonial Sugar Refining Company Limited
Ronald W Chew Collection
AU NBAC N37 · Deposit · 1951 - 1980

Pharmaceutical prescription books 1951–1980, National Health Scheme prescription books, 1952–1955.

Chew, Ronald W
AU NBAC E109 · Deposit · 1890 - 1962

Minutes 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 Australia
AU NBAC E108 · Deposit · 1908 - 1960

Minutes 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 Australia
AU NBAC E106 · Deposit · 1906 - 1952

Minute 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' Association
AU NBAC E102 · Deposit · 1905 - 1968

Minutes 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 Australia
AU NBAC E100 · Deposit · 1881 - 1958

Minutes (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 Wales
AU NBAC N267 · Deposit · 1966 - 1993

Minutes 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 Service
AU NBAC E89 · Deposit · 1888 - 1946

Minutes 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 Union
AU NBAC Z675 · Deposit · 1902 - 2006

This 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