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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 & Shipwrights Union (1976 - 1983) | Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (i) (1973 - 1976)

Reference:88/6
Date Range:1880 - 1938
Description:Barrier Branch: Includes minute books, 1891-1906, 1911-1915; 1917-1919; correspondence books, 1880, 1916-1920; Treasurers' books, 1906-1910, 1919-1929, 1931-1933; cheque books 1914-1917, 1921-1923, 1926-1928; contribution books, 1889-1892, 1906-1923; cash books 1889-1905, 1907-1926; money steward's book, 1915-1918; Benefit book, 1890-1911; shop steward's book, 1921-1925, vacant books, 1905-1938.
Quantity:1.2 m
Access:Available for referennce.
Related Entries:Amalgamated Engineering Union, Australian Section (1921 - 1938)
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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 & Shipwrights Union (1976 - 1983) | Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (i) (1973 - 1976)

Reference:6R-7R
Date Range:1894 - 1968
Description:Minutes of various North Queensland branches of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers and the Amalgamated Engineering Union, such as the Townsville Branch, and Mackay, Ayr, Innisfail and Rockhampton branches.
Quantity:6 boxes
Access:Restricted. Apply to repository for details
Related Entries:Amalgamated Engineering Union (Australian Section) (1938 - 1969) | Amalgamated Engineering Union, Australian Section (1921 - 1938)

Reference:6R, 7L, 7R
Date Range:1915 - 1968
Description:Ayr Branch: Minutes, 1918-1930.

Mackay Branch & District Committee: Minutes, 1912-1947, 1956-1968.

Mount Isa Branch: Minutes, 1962-1968.

Oonooba Branch: Minutes, 1944-1959.

Townsville District Committee: Minutes, 1919-1930, 1944-1957.

Townsville Branch No. 2: Minutes, 1921.

Townsville Branch Committee: Minutes, 1938-1946.
Quantity:6 boxes (2 m)
Access:Available for reference
Related Entries:Amalgamated Engineering Union (Australian Section) (1938 - 1969) | Amalgamated Engineering Union, Australian Section (1921 - 1938)
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Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales
 
[Repository details]
Reference:B1410
Date Range:1911 - 1941
Description:Pence cards issued to W.C. Long from various branches.
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Amalgamated Engineering Union (Australian Section) (1938 - 1969)
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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 & Shipwrights Union (1976 - 1983) | Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (i) (1973 - 1976) | Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (ii) (1985 - 1991) | Amalgamated Metals Foundry & Shipwrights Union (1983 - 1985)
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The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Australian National University
 
[Repository details]
Reference:Z161
Date Range:1911 - 1972
Description:Tasmanian Branch: Includes: Minutes; registration books; membership records; financial records; correspondence.
Quantity:3.45 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) | Boilermakers & Blacksmiths Society of Australia (1965 - 1972) | Boilermakers Society of Australia (1937 - 1965) | Sheet Metal Working Agricultural Implement & Stove Making Industrial Union of Australia (1945 - 1972)

Reference:E140; M24; N24 (pt); E157; P109; Z102 (pt)
Date Range:1852 - 1983
Description:Includes: minute books; rules; certificate of registration; commonwealth officers correspondence and subject files; international files; correspondence; proposition forms; membership records; superannuation registers; benevolent grant book; financial records; reports; conference files; microfilm copies of minutes of Amalgamated Society of Engineers, 1852-1922; photographs; memorabilia and publications. Includes records of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, Commonwealth Council, state branch and district committee records.
Formats:Microfilm and Photographs.
Quantity:76.8 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)

Title:H.R. Edwards Papers
Reference:P108
Date Range:1917 - 1958
Description:Membership cards of the Amalgamated Engineering Union.
Quantity:0.01 m
Related Entries:Amalgamated Engineering Union (Australian Section) (1938 - 1969) | Amalgamated Engineering Union, Australian Section (1921 - 1938)

Reference:E209; E162; E221; Z102
Date Range:1852 - 1975
Description:State Local Branches: Records of branches across Australia including minute books; donation books; sick benefit books; unemployment books; proposition and entrance books; registration and contribution books; photographs; publications.
Formats:Photographs.
Quantity:15.5 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)

Reference:E227; E157 (pt); Z102 (pt)
Date Range:1905 - 1968
Description:New South Wales Local Branches: Minute books (including the minute books of the Sydney District Committee); membership and financial records; proposition and entrance books; members records of the AEU Motor Engineers Branch and publications.
Quantity:10 m
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Amalgamated Engineering Union (Australian Section) (1938 - 1969) | Amalgamated Engineering Union, Australian Section (1921 - 1938)

Reference:E157 (pt); E220; Z102 (pt)
Date Range:1914 - 1968
Description:Queensland Local Branches: Certificates of registration; minute books; rules; annual balance sheets; lists of officers; divisional organisers' files; arbitration papers; financial and membership records; press cuttings.
Quantity:15 m
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Amalgamated Engineering Union (Australian Section) (1938 - 1969) | Amalgamated Engineering Union, Australian Section (1921 - 1938) | Boilermakers & Blacksmiths Society of Australia (1965 - 1972)

Reference:E185; E222; E234; E107
Date Range:1875 - 1973
Description:South Australian Local Branches: Minute books of the various South Australian branches; membership records; financial records; registration books. Includes records of the Boilermakers' & Blacksmiths' Society of Australia and contribution book of Broken Hill branch of the United Society of Boilermakers & Iron Shipbuilders of South Australia, 1889-1892.
Quantity:4.43 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) | Boilermakers & Blacksmiths Society of Australia (1965 - 1972) | United Society of Boilermakers & Iron Shipbuilders of South Australia

Reference:E157 (pt); T61; Z102 (pt)
Date Range:1894 - 1968
Description:Victorian Local Branches: Minute books of various Victorian branches; donation and sick benefit book; clearance forms; financial records; district committee minutes; certificate published by Amalgamated Society of Engineers, London, 1852.
Quantity:2 m
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Amalgamated Engineering Union (Australian Section) (1938 - 1969) | Amalgamated Engineering Union, Australian Section (1921 - 1938)

Reference:Z240
Date Range:1880 - 1975
Description:Queensland Branch: Records of district committees and branches. Includes: Minute books; correspondence; general files; reports membership records; conference papers; publications.
Quantity:13.8 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 Tinsmiths Sheet Metal Workers Cannister Makers Gas Meter Makers & Assistants Union (1911 - 1913) | 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) | Sheet Metal Working Agricultural Implement & Stove Making Industrial Union of Australia (1945 - 1972) | Sheet Metal Working Industrial Union of Australia (1913 - 1945)

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 & Shipwrights Union (1976 - 1983) | Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (i) (1973 - 1976) | 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)

Reference:Z63
Date Range:1892 - 1973
Description:Western Australian Branch: Includes: Minute books; membership records; correspondence; industrial papers; reports; rule books.
Quantity:1.65 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) | WA Vehicle Builders Union
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The University of Melbourne Archives
 
[Repository details]
Reference:78/61
Date Range:1865 - 1949
Description:Bendigo Branch: Amalgamated Society of Engineers, Sandhurst Branch (later Bendigo Branch) minutes, membership records; shop stewards' and financial records, 1865-1921; Amalgamated Engineering Union Bendigo No. 1 and 2 Branches minutes, membership records; shop stewards' and financial records, 1921-1949.
Quantity:2 boxes (0.2 m)
Access:Open
Related Entries:Amalgamated Engineering Union (Australian Section) (1938 - 1969) | Amalgamated Engineering Union, Australian Section (1921 - 1938)

Reference:83/122
Date Range:1916 - 1968
Description:Castlemaine Branch: Minutes of meetings, 1922-1968; minutes of Social Committee meetings; minutes of district committee meetings; register book; vacant book; accounts and finance; correspondence.
Quantity:7 boxes (0.8 m)
Access:Restricted
Related Entries:Amalgamated Engineering Union (Australian Section) (1938 - 1969) | Amalgamated Engineering Union, Australian Section (1921 - 1938)

Reference:77/84
Date Range:1900 - 1904
Description:Ballarat Branch: Illuminated lithograph membership certificate, 1900; congratulatory testimonial "for past services" presented to brother William Evans, 25 August 1904; illuminated lithograph and photograph of William Evans mounted in hand-decorated green surround.
Formats:Objects and Photographs.
Quantity:0.1 m
Access:Open

Reference:74/27
Date Range:1883 - 1970
Description:Melbourne District Committee: Minutes of meetings, 1883-1970; minutes of Melbourne Local District meetings, 1913-1942; minutes of Melbourne District Political meetings, 1953-1955; Victorian State Council minutes, 1969-1970; correspondence and financial material.
Formats:Microfilm.
Quantity:23 reels of microfilm
Access:Restricted
Related Entries:Amalgamated Engineering Union (1969 - 1973) | Amalgamated Engineering Union (Australian Section) (1938 - 1969) | Amalgamated Engineering Union, Australian Section (1921 - 1938)

Reference:80/133
Date Range:1865 - 1966
Description:Bendigo Branch: Minutes, 1865-1963; letterbooks, 1923-1965; accounts and finance including cash books, bankbooks, auditor's reports, treasurer's account books, chequebooks, 1872-1966; membership material; benefits; donations; contributions books; subject files, 1922-1937; declaration book; pamphlets "Friends of Soviet Union".
Quantity:27 archive boxes & 1 large minute book
Access:Restricted
Related Entries:Amalgamated Engineering Union (Australian Section) (1938 - 1969) | Amalgamated Engineering Union, Australian Section (1921 - 1938)

Reference:88/140
Date Range:1883 - 1972
Description:Melbourne District Committee: Minutes of the Melbourne District Committee: 1883, 1890-1905, 1909, 1912-3, 1921-5, 1929-33, 1940-5, 1948-72; minutes of the Melbourne District Political Committee, 1924-31, 1953-58.
Quantity:4.1 m
Access:Restricted
Related Entries:Amalgamated Engineering Union (1969 - 1973) | Amalgamated Engineering Union (Australian Section) (1938 - 1969) | Amalgamated Engineering Union, Australian Section (1921 - 1938)

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 & Shipwrights Union (1976 - 1983) | 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 & Shipwrights Union (1976 - 1983) | Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (i) (1973 - 1976) | 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)

Reference:78/60
Date Range:1911 - 1958
Description:Castlemaine Branch: Aggregate and District Committee minute books; Social Committee minute book; registration book; vacant book; residence books; donation and sick benefit; sickness and accident registration book; cash book.
Formats:Microfilm.
Quantity:2 reels
Access:Open
Related Entries:Amalgamated Engineering Union (Australian Section) (1938 - 1969) | Amalgamated Engineering Union, Australian Section (1921 - 1938)
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Western Australian Museum
 
[Repository details]
Description:Kalgoorlie Branch: Double-sided banner.
Formats:Objects.
Quantity:1 item
Access:Contact repository for details
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Published by University of Melbourne, 7 March 2002
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