Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1874 - 1961 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
5.85 m
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
The Printing Industry Employees' Union of Australia, known as the One Big Union of Printers in 1916, was registered federally in 1917. On 31 March 1966 the Printing Industry Employees' Union of Australia and the Amalgamated Printing Trades Employees' Union of Australia signed an agreement to amalgamate to form the Printing and Kindred Industries Union.
Name of creator
Biographical history
The union was established in November 1874 as the South Australian Typographical Society. It became known as Branch No. 3 of the Australasian Typographical Society when the federal body was formed in 1880. In December 1916 the union became the South Australian Branch of the Printing Industry Employees' Union of Australia.
Name of creator
Biographical history
The Letterpress Printers', Machinists' and Stereotypers' Association of South Australia was formed in September 1907. In October 1910 it became a section of the South Australian Typographical Society following amendment of the rules of membership of the Typographical Society.
Repository
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Minute books and agenda, correspondence, circulars, arbitration material, registers of members and other membership records, reports and financial records, general subject files re awards and industry material, wages and time books, photographs of delegates to the Federal Council, rules and publications. Includes records of predecessors the South Australian Typographical Society, Letterpress Printers, Machinists and Stereotypers' section of the SA Typographical Society; and records of the South Australian Typographical Sick Benefit Society and Adelaide Branch of the Australian Federated Association of Bookbinders, Paper-rulers and Cutters.
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Researchers must sign an access agreement
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Digital copies of South Australian Typographical Association minutes available at https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/123223
Related units of description
NBAC deposits N69; Z482; M42; N12; Z116; E216; T39; T43; T52; T54; E91; M23; N246; E116; M33; N318; M22
Notes area
Note
The Adelaide Branch of the Australian Federated Association of Bookbinders, Paper-rulers and Cutters, formed in May 1891, remained a separate organisation until November 1920 when it became a section of the South Australian Branch of the Printing Industry Employees' Union of Australia.
Note
Seven volumes of South Australian Typographical Association minutes are inscribed on the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Register as part of the Minute Books of Pre-Federation Australian Trade Unions (http://www.amw.org.au/register/listings/minute-books-pre-federation-australian-trade-unions)
Alternative identifier(s)
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
Genre access points
Description control area
Description identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Dates of creation revision deletion
Entered from deposit description on 17 December 2012