Queensland Colliery Employees' Union

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Trade union

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Queensland Colliery Employees' Union

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        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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        Representation for coal miners

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        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

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