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- 1897 - 1966 (Creation)
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1.5 m
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W J H (Joe) Harris was a carpenter and member of Queensland branch of the Building Workers' Industrial Union of Australia. He became a freelance journalist writing on the history of the labour movement. His publications include First steps : Queensland workers' moves towards political expression, 1857-1893 (Canberra : Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, 1966); and The Bitter Fight : a pictorial history of the Australian labor movement (University of Queensland Press, 1970). He was a Brisbane member of the ASSLH.
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Records of the Queensland Building Trades Group (1928-1965) including rules and copies of minutes, of the United Operative Bricklayers' Society of Queensland including rules and correspondence (1926-1946), copies of minutes of the Trades and Labour Council of Queensland Council and Congress, arbitration material relating to Queensland awards, rules, reports and printed material of various unions, early socialist publications (1897-1912).
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NBAC Z625
Fryer Library and Department of Special Collections, University of Queensland: UQFL106
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Entered from deposit description on 16 September 2011