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Date(s)
- 1936 - 1972 (Creation)
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1 box + part of 1 box
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Biographical history
The union was originally registered as the Amalgamated Tinsmiths' Sheet Metal Workers' Cannister Makers' Gas Meter Makers' & Assistants' Union in 1911 and comprised of unions that had operated since 1881. From 1913 its name changed to the Sheet Metal Working Industrial Union of Australia. In 1945 the union changed its name to the Sheet Metal Working Agricultural Implement & Stove Making Industrial Union of Australia to reflect growing membership from members of the Federated Agricultural Implement & Stovemakers' Porcelain Enamellers' & Ironworkers' Association of Australia. It was deregistered in 1972 and joined the Amalgamated Engineering Union to form the Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union in 1973.
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Scope and content
Sydney. Official organ of the Sheet Metal Working Industrial Union of Australia. Later, Official Journal of the Federal Council of the Sheetmetal Working, Agricultural Implement and Stovemaking Industrial Union of Australia
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Open access