Identity area
Type of entity
Trade union
Authorized form of name
Queensland Colliery Employees' Union
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Description area
Dates of existence
1908 - 1992
History
The union was registered on 5 November 1908. It succeeded the West Moreton District Miners' Union which had at that time over twenty branches in the Ipswich and Rosewood areas. Its first Secretary was David Gledson who became a member of the Queensland government in 1915 and later Minister for Mines and Attorney-General. The QCEU became the Queensland District of the Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation from its formation in 1916 but maintained its separate status until it became part of the Mining and Energy Division of the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union in 1992.
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Functions, occupations and activities
Representation for coal miners
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Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Entered from deposit description 27 September 2012
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Sources
Dennis J Bailey, Holes in the Ground: Queensland Coalminers in Struggle, 1840-1980, Brisbane, 1983
Edgar Ross, A History of the Miners' Federation of Australia, Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation, 1970