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Auchmuty Library, Archives Rare Books and Special Collections Unit, University of Newcastle
 
[Repository details]
Reference:A6666
Date Range:1979 - 1988
Description:Printed material: The Kemira stay-in strike, October 1982; Journals, newsletters and printed material, 1980-1988; Tape recording: Excerpts from speeches at National Defence Meeting, 1979.
Formats:Audio.
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (ii) (1985 - 1991)

Reference:A6657
Date Range:1972 - 1986
Description:Material relating to conferences, workshops and seminars, 1972-1986; submissions, reports and parliamentary documents, 1983-1986.
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (ii) (1985 - 1991) | Amalgamated Metals Foundry & Shipwrights Union (1983 - 1985)

Reference:A6660-A6662
Date Range:1928 - 1983
Description:Arbitration and conciliation material, awards and agreements, 1928-1983; Kooragang Bulk Facilities Construction Agreement, 1982.
Access:Contact repository for details

Reference:A6663
Date Range:1966 - 1985
Description:Shipwrights' Association records, 1966-1985.
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Amalgamated Metals Foundry & Shipwrights Union (1983 - 1985) | Federated Shipwrights & Ship Constructors Association of Australia (1933 - 1976)

Reference:A6664
Date Range:1980 - 1985
Description:Maritime Services Board files, 1980-1985.
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Amalgamated Metals Foundry & Shipwrights Union (1983 - 1985)

Reference:A6665
Date Range:1972 - 1984
Description:Report of the Working Party on the Australian Ship Repair Industry, 1984; State Dockyard minutes, press clippings, photographs and reports, 1977; Coal and coal loaders files, 1976-1982; Country, Gosford and North Coast correspondence, 1972-1976; Industrial Relations Bureau and Industrial Registrar's correspondence, 1972-1977.
Formats:Photographs.
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Federated Shipwrights & Ship Constructors Association of Australia (1933 - 1976)
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Broken Hill City Library, Outback Archives
 
[Repository details]
Reference:88/7
Date Range:1898 - 1980
Description:Broken Hill Branch: Minute books, 1898-1915, 1924-1957; correspondence books, 1926-1927, 1931-1934; registration books, 1901-1953; contribution books, 1923-1950, 1967; vacant books, 1926-1980; benefit books, 1936-1941; cash books, 1923-1941; cheque books 1910-1913, 1923-1926, 1928-1930; Benevolent Grant books, 1910-1937; Treasurers' account books 1929-1931, 1935-1946.
Quantity:1.8 m
Access:Available for reference.
Related Entries:Amalgamated Engineering Union (1969 - 1973) | Amalgamated Engineering Union (Australian Section) (1938 - 1969) | Amalgamated Engineering Union, Australian Section (1921 - 1938) | Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (i) (1973 - 1976) | Amalgamated Society of Engineers (1905 - 1921)
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James Cook University of North Queensland, Library Archives
 
[Repository details]
Title:Amalgamated Metal Workers' & Shipwrights' Union Collection
Reference:Ref.
Date Range:1894 - 1984
Description:Amalgamated Metal Workers' & Shipwrights' Union
Townsville Branch: Minutes, 1894-1968.

Oonoonba Branch: Minutes, 1944-1968.

Ayr Branch: Minutes, 1918-1931.

Mackay Branch: Minutes, 1927-1968.

Mt Isa Branch: Minutes, 1962-1968.


Includes material on award and working conditions negotiations in the north Queensland sugar industry for the period 1965-1982 and in the mining, power and transport industries from 1976-1982; National Conference minutes, 1971-1977; correspondence and membership enquiries, 1971-1982; Trades & Labor Council minutes, 1976-1980; various books, periodicals and pamphlets, including union rule books.
Access:Please contact repository for details
Related Entries:Amalgamated Engineering Union (1969 - 1973) | Amalgamated Engineering Union (Australian Section) (1938 - 1969) | Amalgamated Engineering Union, Australian Section (1921 - 1938) | Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (i) (1973 - 1976) | Amalgamated Society of Engineers (1905 - 1921)
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Mortlock Library of South Australiana, State Library of South Australia
 
[Repository details]
Reference:SRG 153
Date Range:1899 -
Description:South Australian State Council: Includes: banners used in street processions; the key to the emblem of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, Machinists, Millwrights, Smiths and Pattern Makers; certificate presented to J.N. Crimes as a member of the union.
Formats:Objects.
Quantity:3 m
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Amalgamated Engineering Union (1969 - 1973) | Amalgamated Engineering Union (Australian Section) (1938 - 1969) | Amalgamated Engineering Union, Australian Section (1921 - 1938) | Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (i) (1973 - 1976) | Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (ii) (1985 - 1991) | Amalgamated Metals Foundry & Shipwrights Union (1983 - 1985) | Amalgamated Society of Engineers (1905 - 1921)
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National Library of Australia Oral History Collection
 
[Repository details]
Title:Labor Council of New South Wales Oral History Project
Date Range:1986
Description:Oral history recording
Interviewee: Jack Hooke
Interviewer: Richard Raxworthy

Interview with Jack Hooke, former Federal Secretary of the Federated Moulders (Metals) Union of Australia. Includes reference to: His position held in the Moulders' Union; 1929 Coal Strike; timberworkers' strike; Communist attempts to take over the Labor Council; union representation on repatriation committees in World War Two; other prominent unionists; industrial disputes Hooke was involved in; amalgamation of the Moulders' and Metalworkers' union; legal side of industrial cases.
Formats:Audio Tapes.
Quantity:330 minutes
Access:Written permission from the Labor Council of New South Wales required for research and public use
Related Entries:Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (ii) (1985 - 1991) | Federated Moulders (Metals) Union of Australasia (1916 - 1930) | Federated Moulders (Metals) Union of Australia (1930 - 1983) | Hooke, Jack (1898 - ) | Labor Council of New South Wales (1908 - )
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The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Australian National University
 
[Repository details]
Title:Con Zaglas & Michael Doogan Papers
Reference:Z505
Date Range:1979 - 1984
Description:Includes papers relating to the Amalgamated Metal Workers' & Shipwrights' Union.
Quantity:0.2 m

Reference:Z147
Date Range:1931 - 1992
Description:Minute books; rule books; Secretary's files' reports; correspondence; subject files; financial records; photographs; posters; publications and papers of C. McDonald.
Formats:Photographs.
Quantity:32.5 m
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Association of Architects Engineers Surveyors & Draughtsmen of Australia, AAESDA (1944 - 1981) | Trades & Labour Council of the Australian Capital Territory (1931 - )

Reference:N24; Z112
Date Range:1867 - 1980
Description:National Office: Minutes; secretary's correspondence and subject files; rule books; minutes of Apprentices Committee; circulars; reports; records of officials; industrial and historical records; photographs; memorabilia; publications.
Includes records relating to predecessor bodies.
Formats:Photographs.
Quantity:18.1 m
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (i) (1973 - 1976)

Title:Frank Bollins Papers
Reference:Z125
Date Range:1914 - 1983
Description:New South Wales Branch: Records of Branch President, Frank Bollins, including: Minutes; conference and seminar papers; general files; papers relating to demarcation; records relating to NSW railways; publications.
Includes records of preceding unions.
Quantity:2.55 m
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (i) (1973 - 1976) | Bollins, Frank (1914 - 1983)

Title:Everleigh Loco Combined Unions Shop Stewards Committee Records
Reference:Z305
Date Range:1940 - 1988
Description:Includes: Minutes; correspondence; office files; arbitration records; financial records; printed material; banners; press cuttings; photographs.
Formats:Objects and Photographs.
Quantity:3.15 m
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Amalgamated Engineering Union (1969 - 1973) | Amalgamated Engineering Union (Australian Section) (1938 - 1969) | Amalgamated Engineering Union, Australian Section (1921 - 1938) | Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (i) (1973 - 1976) | Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (ii) (1985 - 1991) | Amalgamated Metals Foundry & Shipwrights Union (1983 - 1985)

Reference:Z147
Date Range:1931 - 1992
Description:Minute books; rule books; Secretary's files; reports; correspondence; subject files; financial records; photographs; posters; publications; papers of C. McDonald. Includes records of AAESDA and AMSWU.
Quantity:32.5 m
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:ACT Trades & Labor Council (1931 - ) | Association of Architects Engineers Surveyors & Draughtsmen of Australia, AAESDA (1944 - 1981)

Reference:N131; Z446
Date Range:1881 - 1983
Description:South Australian Branch: Organisers' files; register of members out of work, 1881-1887; mortality fund register; reports; membership records; administration and subject files; industrial papers; ephemera; books; pamphlets; films.
Formats:Film and Objects.
Quantity:13.45 m
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Amalgamated Engineering Union (1969 - 1973) | Amalgamated Engineering Union (Australian Section) (1938 - 1969) | Amalgamated Engineering Union, Australian Section (1921 - 1938) | Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (i) (1973 - 1976) | Amalgamated Society of Engineers (1905 - 1921) | Blacksmiths Society of Australasia (1919 - 1954) | Blacksmiths Society of Australia (1954 - 1965) | Boilermakers & Blacksmiths Society of Australia (1965 - 1972) | Boilermakers Society of Australia (1937 - 1965) | Federated Shipwrights & Ship Constructors Association of Australia (1933 - 1976) | Sheet Metal Working Agricultural Implement & Stove Making Industrial Union of Australia (1945 - 1972)

Title:Jack Garland Papers
Reference:Z503
Date Range:1952 - 1991
Description:National Office: General Secretary, John (Jack) Garland's subject files; photographs; memorabilia; sound recordings; publications.
Includes records of predecessor bodies.
Formats:Photographs, Objects and Audio.
Quantity:1.8 m
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (i) (1973 - 1976) | Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (ii) (1985 - 1991) | Amalgamated Metals Foundry & Shipwrights Union (1983 - 1985)

Title:Ron Arnold Papers
Reference:Z76
Date Range:1946 - 1981
Description:New South Wales Branch: Includes: Assistant Secretary's files (R. Arnold); political and social campaign papers; international conference papers; diaries; press cuttings; photographs; printed material.
Formats:Photographs.
Quantity:2.85 m
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (i) (1973 - 1976) | Arnold, Ron

Reference:E262; E245 (pt)
Date Range:1937 - 1977
Description:New South Wales Branch: Secretary's and Organisers' records; correspondence; industiral safety records; membership registers; financial records; subject files; meeting papers of combined naval establishment disputes committee; publications. Includes records of the Women's Committee.
Includes records of predecessor unions.
Quantity:2.8 m
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (i) (1973 - 1976)

Title:Tom Wright Papers
Reference:N33
Date Range:1926 - 1978
Description:New South Wales Branch: Correspondence; subject and office files; ACTU papers; files relating to the amalgamation of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, Boilermakers' & Blacksmiths' Society and the Sheet Metal Workers' Union; conference papers; circulars; copies of minutes; publications.
Quantity:2.1 m
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Amalgamated Engineering Union (1969 - 1973) | Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (i) (1973 - 1976) | Australian Council of Trade Unions (i), ACTU (1947 - 1979) | Boilermakers & Blacksmiths Society of Australia (1965 - 1972) | Sheet Metal Working Agricultural Implement & Stove Making Industrial Union of Australia (1945 - 1972) | Wright, Tom (1902 - 1981)

Reference:Z102
Date Range:c. 1852 - 1991
Description:National Office: Includes: Minute books; rules; correspondence; proposition books; membership records; subject and office files; files of office holders; legal and historical papers; conference papers; industrial files; district committee minutes; branch minutes; reports; speeches; campaign files; photographs; films; posters; publications.
Formats:Film, Photographs and Artwork.
Quantity:155 m
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (i) (1973 - 1976) | Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (ii) (1985 - 1991) | Amalgamated Metals Foundry & Shipwrights Union (1983 - 1985)

Title:Gilbert Stead Papers
Reference:Z88
Date Range:1881 - 1988
Description:National Office: Includes: Rule books; constitution; correspondence; membership records; financial records; subject files; reports; position papers; photographs; leaflets and publications. Also includes records of Alan Wilson, Amalgamated Engineering Union commonwealth councillor, AMWU National returning office files.
Includes records of predecessor unions.
Formats:Photographs.
Quantity:9 m
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Amalgamated Engineering Union (1969 - 1973) | Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (i) (1973 - 1976) | Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (ii) (1985 - 1991) | Amalgamated Metals Foundry & Shipwrights Union (1983 - 1985)

Reference:N24 (pt); Z102 (pt)
Date Range:1916 - 1979
Description:Federal Office: Minutes; correspondence; conference papers; general files; subject files; financial records; membership records; industrial files; photographs; publications.
Formats:Photographs.
Quantity:8.2 m
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Federated Shipwrights & Ship Constructors Association of Australia (1933 - 1976) | Federated Shipwrights Ship Constructors & Boat Builders Association of Australia (1916 - 1917) | Federated Shipwrights Ship Constructors Naval Architects Ships Draughtsmen and Boat Builders of Australia (1917 - 1933)
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The University of Melbourne Archives
 
[Repository details]
Reference:87/117
Date Range:1972 - 1980
Description:Victorian Branch: Copies of Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union Monthly Journal, August 1972-September 1980 (complete).
Quantity:2 boxes (0.2 m)
Access:Open
Related Entries:Amalgamated Engineering Union (1969 - 1973) | Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (i) (1973 - 1976)

Title:Kevin Hince Collection
Reference:94/147
Date Range:1959 - 1977
Description:Includes: Books of rules, constitutions, awards and annual reports of Federal and State Branches of various Australian trade unions.
Quantity:0.24 m
Access:Open
Related Entries:Amalgamated Engineering Union (1969 - 1973) | Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (i) (1973 - 1976) | Amalgamated Society of Carpenters & Joiners of Australia (iii) (1952 - 1992) | Association of Railway Professional Officers of Australia (1921 - ) | Australasian Society of Engineers (ii) (1938 - 1991) | Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen (ii) (1927 - 1993) | Australian Government Lawyers Association (1974 - 1991) | Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association, ALAEA (1964 - ) | Australian Postal & Telecommunications Union (i) (1974 - 1990) | Australian Postmasters Association (1966 - 1991) | Australian Textile Workers Union (i) (1919 - 1984) | Commonwealth Foremens Association of Australia, Commonwealth Public Service (1946 - 1975) | Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation Technical Association (1958 - 1988) | Commonwealth Telephone & Phonogram Officers Association (1950 - 1975) | Federated Clerks Union of Australia (ii) (1924 - 1993) | Federated Cold Storage & Meat Preserving Union of Australasia (1915 - 1992) | Federated Marine Stewards & Pantrymens Association of Australasia (1909 - 1988) | Health & Research Employees Association of Australia (1969 - 1991) | Hospital Employees Federation of Australia (1959 - 1991) | Municipal Officers Association of Australia (1921 - 1991) | New South Wales Teachers Federation (1919 - ) | Postal Telecommunication Technicians Association (Australia) (1943 - 1976) | Professional Radio Employees Institute of Australasia (1934 - 1975) | Seamens Union of Australia (i) (1943 - 1983) | South Australian Institute of Teachers | Waterside Workers Federation of Australia (i) (1907 - 1991) | Wool Brokers Staffs Association (1953 - 1991)

Reference:101/46
Date Range:1940 - 1988
Description:Victorian Branch: The records consist of printed copies of Amalgamated Metal Workers' State Conference agenda, reports and decisions, 1972 and 1973; Preston Workshops Inter-Union Shop Committee, minute book and associated correspondence and notes, 1969-1973; included also are Coburg Branch minute books, 1975-1988 and correspondence book, 1978-1986; Keith McIver Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union membership cards, 1975, 1976, 1983, 1990; booklet Trade Unionism: Its Operation Under Australian Law, Victorian Labor College, 1940.
Quantity:1 box
Access:Restricted
Related Entries:Amalgamated Engineering Union (1969 - 1973) | Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (i) (1973 - 1976) | Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (ii) (1985 - 1991) | Amalgamated Metals Foundry & Shipwrights Union (1983 - 1985)

Reference:83/77
Date Range:1912 - 1979
Description:Amalgamated Engineering Union
Ballarat Branch: Minutes, 1913-1979;
Northcote Branch: Minutes; correspondence; money stewards book; circulars, 1940-1968;
Bendigo Branch: Minutes, 1920-1943; FSMW Geelong Branch minutes 1939-1971, issues of the Sheet Metal Workers, 1940-1949.

Boilermakers' Society of Australia
Melbourne Branch: Minutes, 1919-1935, 1961-1972.
Williamstown Branch: Minutes, 1946-1967.
Geelong Sub-branch: Minutes, 1940-1972.

Blacksmiths' Society of Australasia
Melbourne Branch: Minutes and attendance book, 1912-1919.
Bendigo Branch: Minutes, 1948-1963. FIMU Footscray minutes, 1913-1914.
Quantity:2 m
Access:Restricted
Related Entries:Amalgamated Engineering Union (1969 - 1973) | Amalgamated Engineering Union (Australian Section) (1938 - 1969) | Amalgamated Engineering Union, Australian Section (1921 - 1938) | Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (i) (1973 - 1976) | Amalgamated Society of Engineers (1905 - 1921) | Blacksmiths Society of Australasia (1919 - 1954) | Blacksmiths Society of Australia (1954 - 1965) | Boilermakers & Blacksmiths Society of Australia (1965 - 1972) | Boilermakers Society of Australia (1937 - 1965) | Federated Society of Boilermakers & Iron Shipbuilders of Australia (1911 - 1929) | Federated Society of Boilermakers Iron Shipbuilders & Structural Iron & Steel Workers of Australia (1929 - 1937)

Title:Link
Reference:87/52
Date Range:1972 - 1979
Description:Branch publication of Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union, 1972-1979, and publications of Communist Party branches in Union.
Quantity:0.1 m
Access:Open

Reference:101/38
Date Range:1959 - 1996
Description:Victorian Branch: Correspondence files; National Administrative Committee,1987- 1994; State Organisers' reports to Council; industrial files, including working files, dispute files, many relating to SEC matters; union publications including Amalgamated Metal Workers' & Shipwrights' Union (and predecessor unions) rules, 1959-1988; subject files.
Quantity:17 cartons & 5 boxes
Access:Restricted
Related Entries:Amalgamated Engineering Union (1969 - 1973) | Amalgamated Engineering Union (Australian Section) (1938 - 1969) | Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (i) (1973 - 1976) | Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (ii) (1985 - 1991) | Amalgamated Metals Foundry & Shipwrights Union (1983 - 1985) | Automotive Food Metals & Engineering Union (1994 - 1995) | Automotive Metals & Engineering Union (1993 - 1994) | Metals & Engineering Workers Union (1991 - 1993)

Reference:95/96
Date Range:1876 - 1988
Description:Victorian Branch: Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union and successors: State Administrative Committee, State Council, State Conference minutes (m/film), 1972-1981; Sub-committee minutes, officers' and organisers' reports, 1979-1984; subject and correspondence files of John Halfpenny and Allen Ritter, general and industrial files, circa 1971-1987; Amalgamated Society of Engineers/Amalgamated Engineering Union Melbourne Branch Registration books, 1876-1971; Amalgamated Engineering Union, Commonwealth Council monthly journal and quarterly reports; Amalgamated Engineering Union and successors Branch minutes for: Essendon, Ballarat, Camberwell, Prahran, Castlemaine, Dandenong, Ringwood, Footscray, La Trobe Valley, Corio.
Formats:Microfilm.
Quantity:76 boxes
Access:Restricted
Related Entries:Amalgamated Engineering Union (1969 - 1973) | Amalgamated Engineering Union (Australian Section) (1938 - 1969) | Amalgamated Engineering Union, Australian Section (1921 - 1938) | Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (i) (1973 - 1976) | Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (ii) (1985 - 1991) | Amalgamated Metals Foundry & Shipwrights Union (1983 - 1985) | Amalgamated Society of Engineers (1905 - 1921)
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University of Wollongong Archives
 
[Repository details]
Reference:C76
Date Range:1977
Description:Includes: Booklets; pamphlets and other published ephemera relating to the Union in the Illawarra region.
Access:Contact repository for details
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Published by University of Melbourne, 7 March 2002
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