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Auchmuty Library, Archives Rare Books and Special Collections Unit, University of Newcastle
 
[Repository details]
Title:Jane Morgan Honours Thesis
Reference:AB10368
Date Range:1981
Description:Industrial group activity in the Newcastle region with particular reference to the Federated Ironworkers' Association, Miners' Federation and Trades Hall Council, 1981.
Quantity:1 folder
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Federated Ironworkers Association of Australia (i) (1911 - 1975) | Federated Ironworkers Association of Australia (ii) (1975 - 1991) | Newcastle Trades Hall Council

Title:Richmond Main Colliery Archive
Reference:A5510(xiii)
Date Range:1937 - 1938
Description:Correspondence relating to the Miners' Federation, 1937-1938.
Access:Contact repository for details

Title:Aberdare Extended Miners' Lodge Collection
Reference:A5607
Date Range:1910 - 1927
Description:Includes: Colliery Employees' Federation of the Northern District NSW Industrial Union of Employees income and expenditure book; Australasian Coal & Shale Employees' Federation records, membership books, rules, questionnaire, half yearly returns and printed material.
Quantity:1 box & 5 volumes
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Colliery Employees Federation of the Northern District NSW Industrial Union of Employees
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National Library of Australia Oral History Collection
 
[Repository details]
Date Range:1988
Description:Oral history recording
Interviewee: Edgar Ross
Interviewer: Richard Raxworthy

Interview with Edgar Ross, former member of the Labor Council of New South Wales. Includes reference to: His brother Lloyd; joining the Miners' Federation in 1929; formation of the ACTU; working as a journalist at the Barrier Daily Truth in Broken Hill; the struggle with Lang for control of the Labor Daily; producing Common Cause; the 1949 Coal Miners' Strike; his thirty years on the Executive of the Labor Council of New South Wales; his membership of the Australian Journalists' Association; serving as a delegate to ACTU Congress.
Formats:Audio Tapes.
Quantity:450 minutes
Access:Written permission from the Labor Council of New South Wales required for research and public use
Related Entries:Australasian Council of Trade Unions (1927 - 1947) | Australian Council of Trade Unions (i), ACTU (1947 - 1979) | Australian Journalists Association (i) (1911 - 1991) | Labor Council of New South Wales (1908 - ) | Ross, Dr. Lloyd (1901 - 1987) | Ross, Edgar (1904 - 2001)
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The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Australian National University
 
[Repository details]
Reference:E164
Date Range:1909 - 1967
Description:Victorian District & Powlett River Branch, Wonthaggi: Minutes; correspondence; financial records; publications; historical material.
Quantity:4.2 m
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Australasian Coal Miners Association (1913 - 1916)

Reference:T3; T31
Date Range:1889 - 1959
Description:Southern District (NSW): Minutes of various bodies; letter books; correspondence; membership and account records; reports; publications; historical material.
Quantity:3.65 m
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Australasian Coal Miners Association (1913 - 1916)

Reference:Z586
Date Range:1928 - 1988
Description:Central Council: Includes: Minute books; general and industrial files; conference papers; campaign files; photographs; printed material. Includes records for Northern, Southern, Western and Queensland District (Board of Management Minutes).
Formats:Photographs.
Quantity:36 m
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Australasian Coal Miners Association (1913 - 1916) | Queensland Colliery Employees Union

Reference:E165; E204; N144
Date Range:1874 - 1979
Description:Central Council & Districts - Northern (NSW), Western (NSW), Queensland, Tasmania: Includes: Rule books; constitutions; minutes; conference reports; financial records; arbitration records; press cuttings; printed material.
Quantity:38.57 m
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Australasian Coal Miners Association (1913 - 1916)
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The University of Melbourne Archives
 
[Repository details]
Title:Bill Rankin Papers
Reference:73/82
Date Range:1927 - 1965
Description:Papers of the Miners' Federation (particularly the Wonthaggi Branch), Wonthaggi Co-operative Society, Communist Party of Australia, Australian Labor Party, the peace movement, Wonthaggi local government; rank and file job bulletins, 1933-1935; Union Voice publication; Australian Coal & Shale Employees' Federation bulletins/broadsheets, files, minutes, disputes; Wonthaggi Miners' Union theatre statements and notes; conference material; Trades and Labor Council pamphlets; Wonthaggi Hospital/Pensioners constitution; annual reports and balance sheets; newspaper clippings. Includes copies of publications: Common Cause, Midday Times and The Wonthaggi Sentinel.
Quantity:10 boxes & 5 flat boxes
Access:Open
Related Entries:Rankine, Bill

Reference:75/71
Date Range:1909 - 1968
Description:Victorian District, Powlett River Branch: Miners' Federation, Victorian District minutes, 1921-1960 (incomplete); accounts, 1934, 1937; Miners' Federation, Wonthaggi Vigilance Committee correspondence, 1969-1970; Australian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation, Powlett River Branch accounts; receipt books; wage books; contracts; financial committee minutes; household coal development fund, 1948-1965; correspondence; awards, 1920-1958 (incomplete); copies of Common Cause, 1968-1972 (incomplete); Union Theatre, Wonthaggi contracts with distributing studios i.e. MGM Fox, Columbia, United Artists, Warner Bros., Paramount; financial receipts; correspondence; miscellaneous publications and pamphlets.
Quantity:6 m
Access:Open
Related Entries:Australasian Coal Miners Association (1913 - 1916) | Victorian Coal Miners Association (1907 - 1914)
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University of Wollongong Archives
 
[Repository details]
Reference:A667
Date Range:1949
Description:Publication: The Coal Front: An Account of the 1949 Coal Strike and the issues it raised, authored by Edgar Ross for the Miners' Federation, (126p).
Quantity:1 item
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Ross, Edgar (1904 - 2001)

Reference:D12
Date Range:1901 - 1966
Description:Southern District: Includes correspondence; industrial agreements; financial papers; photographs; rules and regulations.
Formats:Photographs.
Quantity:4.6 m
Access:Permission of lender required. Apply through Archivist
Related Entries:Illawarra Colliery Employees Association (1901 - 1921)

Reference:D114
Date Range:1920 - 1955
Description:Bulli Lodge: Minutes, 1920-1944; correspondence, 1931-1954; stump books, 1921-1955; colliery output books, 1925-1935.
Quantity:3 m
Access:Available for reference

Reference:A82
Date Range:1962
Description:Rules and constitution. Amended edition.
Quantity:1 item
Access:Contact repository for details

Reference:A685
Date Range:1936
Description:Southern District: Rules and constitution, 1936.
Access:Contact repository for details

Reference:A765
Date Range:c. 1970
Description:Southern District: Publication: The 35 hour week and multi shift production, authored by R. Kelly for the Miners' Federation, (4p).
Quantity:1 item
Access:Contact repository for details

Reference:S20
Date Range:1949 - 1973
Description:Southern District Branch, Corrimal-South Bulli Miners' Womens' Auxiliary: Minute books, 1949-1971; correspondence, 1951-1971; press clippings, 1950-1973.
Southern District Branch, Nebo Miners' Women's Auxiliary: Minute books, 1957-1968; correspondence, 1958-1969.
Southern District Branch, Mount Kembla Miners' Women's Auxiliary: Minute books, 1953-1967.
Southern District Branch, Scarborough Miners' Women's Auxiliary: Minute books, 1960-1973; history of the Scarborough Miners' Women's Auxiliary (typescript), 1972.
Quantity:0.2 m
Access:Available for reference
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Published by University of Melbourne, 7 March 2002
Based on "Parties to the Award" published 1994.
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Updated: 29 June 2006
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