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Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union (1912 - )

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Central Queensland University, Capricornia Central Queensland Collection
 
[Repository details]
Reference:MS J19/940-947
Date Range:1910 - 1985
Description:Rockhampton Branch: Includes minute books, cutting books and membership rolls of the Rockhampton Branch & Central District, 1963-1967; minute books, financial statements, records on arbitration and industrial awards, and correspondence of the Gladstone Sub-branch, 1913-1962; reports and papers on Maryborough & Bundaberg Meatworks, 1975-1977; papers concerning industrial agreements, labour conditions and policies of the Field Group (Fitzroy Works), 1970-1984.
Quantity:8 (1.4 m)
Access:Available for researchers

Reference:LT/1054-69
Date Range:1909 - 1967
Description:Queensland Branch Northern District Council: Minutes of the Australasian Federated Butchers' Employees' Union, Cairns Branch, 1912-1914; minutes of the Australasian Meat Industry Employees' Union, Northern District Council, 1909-1967; correspondence, 1924-1967; newspaper clippings, 1946-1962; membership registers, 1910-1922.
Quantity:11 boxes & 5 volumes (1.6 m)
Access:Available for reference
Related Entries:Australasian Federated Butchers Employees Union (1906 - 1912)

Title:Oliver Simmonson Research Papers
Reference:MS K7/955
Date Range:1881 - 1988
Description:Papers accumulated in the course of research for Oliver Simmonson's BA thesis. Includes correspondence, newscuttings, taped interviews, reports, surveys, bibliographical lists and miscellaneous papers on three major strikes at Fitzroy River Abbattoir in 1974, 1984 and 1986. Includes select Australasian Meat Industry Employees' Union periodicals, 1987-1988; papers on disputes at Lakes Creek, Townsville, Mudginberri and elsewhere.
Quantity:1 box (0.2 m)
Access:Available for researchers
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Fryer Library and Department of Special Collections, University of Queensland
 
[Repository details]
Title:Women in the Labor movement, 1930-1970
Reference:UQFL 300
Date Range:1991
Description:Records of an oral history project on the subject of women in the labor movement hosted by the Women's Equal Opportunity Committee of the Trades & Labor Council of Queensland and the Public Sector Union, Queensland.

Includes tapes of interviews with accompanying posters and documentation. Some of the interviews have been transcribed.
Formats:Audio Tapes.
Quantity:2 boxes
Access:Available for reference.
Related Entries:Australian Telephone & Phonogram Officers Association (1975 - 1988) | Federated Clerks Union of Australia (ii) (1924 - 1993) | Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia (1916 - 1992) | Metals & Engineering Workers Union (1991 - 1993) | Queensland Colliery Employees Union | Queensland Teachers Union (1889 - ) | Trades & Labor Council of Queensland (1922 - 1993)
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James Cook University of North Queensland, Library Archives
 
[Repository details]
Reference:Ref.
Description:This large unsorted and unlisted collection includes extensive information about the Meat Workers' Union's activities throughout the northern part of Queensland.
Access:Please contact repository for details
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The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Australian National University
 
[Repository details]
Title:J. C. Coupe Papers
Reference:P19
Date Range:1914 - 1961
Description:Printed material relating to the Australasian Meat Industry Employees' Union and other matters.
Quantity:0.08 m
Related Entries:Coupe, J. C. (1876 - 1965)

Reference:T36
Date Range:1895 - 1963
Description:Victorian Branch: Rule books; photographs; printed material.
Formats:Photographs.
Quantity:0.15 m
Access:Contact repository for details
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State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection
 
[Repository details]
Title:Samuel Merrifield Collection
Reference:MS 13045
Date Range:c. 1858 - c. 1977
Description:Includes: Manuscripts, ephemera, photographs, newspapers, books and pamphlets collected by Samuel Merrifield and relating to various unions within the labour movement, with particular emphasis on Victoria.
Formats:Objects and Photographs.
Quantity:29.4 m
Access:Available for reference
Related Entries:Amalgamated Miners Association of Australasia (c. 1884 - 1916) | Anstey, Francis (Frank) George (1865 - 1940) | Australian Bank Officials Association (1938 - 1978) | Australian Insurance Staffs Federation (1920 - 1976) | Australian Journalists Association (i) (1911 - 1991) | Ballarat Trades & Labor Council (1882 - ) | Calwell, Arthur Augustus (1896 - 1973) | Chifley, Joseph Benedict (Ben) (1885 - 1951) | Cook, Bertie Stuart Baxter (1886 - 1975) | Merrifield, Sam (1904 - 1982)

Reference:MS 10676
Date Range:c. 1901 - c. 1970
Description:Comprises unsorted photographs of scenes of the meat industry and butchers' picnics and socials (including beauty pageants for "Miss Equal Pay"), c1901-c1970; photographs and postcards relating to a visit to China in 1960; copy of handwritten memo to Gerry Martin from J. McCulloch, Abbotsford, 1955; pen and ink cartoon, unsigned and undated, regarding the sacking of meat workers; numerous half-tone blocks (as used in the printing industry) bearing images of unidentified persons associated with the union; Timber Workers' Manifesto, issued by the Timber Workers' Vigilance Committee, Trades Hall, Melbourne.
Formats:Photographs.
Quantity:0.16 m
Access:Avialable for reference
Related Entries:Australasian Federated Butchers Employees Union (1906 - 1912)
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The University of Melbourne Archives
 
[Repository details]
Reference:85/81
Date Range:1890 - 1982
Description:Victorian Branch: Minutes of meetings, 1930-1968; correspondence, 1953-1959; financial material, 1890-1904; arbitration matters, 1949-1971; newspaper cuttings, 1923-1969; journals and reports, 1959-1963; miscellaneous publications. Included are: Bendigo Sub-Branch minutes, 1923-1935 and Geelong Sub-branch minutes, 1944-1957.
Quantity:116 boxes & 4 free-standing items
Access:Open
Related Entries:Australasian Federated Butchers Employees Union (1906 - 1912) | Victorian Amalgamated Butchers Union (c. 1903 - )

Reference:91/131
Date Range:1984 - 1988
Description:Copies of the NCC journal, News Weekly, held by the Australasian Meat Industry Employees' Union for reference; covers, 1984-85, 1987-88, but in incomplete series.
Quantity:0.2 m
Access:Open
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University of Wollongong Archives
 
[Repository details]
Reference:D24
Date Range:1913 - 1962
Description:Gladstone Sub-branch, Queensland: Minutes, 1913-1962; arbitration agreements, 1932-1962; correspondence, 1925-1960; diaries of works' delegates, 1930-1944.
Quantity:0.2 m
Access:Permission of lender required. Apply through Archivist

Title:T.A. Cutler PhD Thesis
Reference:A3
Date Range:1976
Description:T.A. Cutler PhD Thesis from the University of New South Wales titled: The History of the Australasian Meat Industry Employees' Union: a study of the internal dynamics of a labour organisation, 1976.
Quantity:474 pages
Access:Contact repository for details

Reference:D78
Date Range:1906 - 1968
Description:Australasian Federated Butchers' Employees' Union
Federal Council: Annual conference reports, 1906-1907

Australasian Meat Industry Employees' Union
Federal Council: Annual conference reports, 1912-1932; Federal Council minutes, 1923-1966; Federal Executive minutes, 1959-1965; Meat Industry conferences minutes, 1956-1960; Australian Labor Party Central Executive minutes, 1960-1964; correspondence, 1934-1969; arbitration, 1932-1963; Australian Meat Board annual reports, 1948-1968.
Quantity:1.2 m
Access:Permission of lender required. Apply through Archivist
Related Entries:Australasian Federated Butchers Employees Union (1906 - 1912)

Reference:D50
Date Range:1908 - 1966
Description:Australasian Federated Butchers' Employees' Union
Queensland Branch:
Minutes, 1908-1912.

Australasian Meat Industry Employees' Union
Queensland Branch:
Includes: minutes, 1913-1937; minutes and reports of state conferences, 1913-1937; correspondence, 1931-1953; membership lists, 1952; arbitration material, 1912-1948; Meat Industry Journal, 1938-1951.
Quantity:1.3 m
Access:Permission of lender required. Apply through Archivist
Related Entries:Australasian Federated Butchers Employees Union (1906 - 1912)

Reference:D39
Date Range:1910 - 1966
Description:Queensland Branch, Central District Council: Central District Council minutes, 1910-1966; Queensland Branch Executive minutes, 1937-1966; Employer-Union conferences minutes, 1959; industrial agreements, 1921-1952; press clippings, 1931-1959; scrapbooks.
Quantity:1.1 m
Access:Permission of lender required. Apply through Archivist

Reference:D80
Date Range:1909 - 1967
Description:Australasian Federated Butchers' Employees' Union
Cairns Branch:
Minutes, 1912-1914.

Australasian Meat Industry Employees' Union
Queensland Branch, Northern District Council:
Minutes, 1900-1967; correspondence, 1924-1967; newspaper clippings, 1946-1962; membership registers, 1910-1922.
Quantity:1.3 m
Access:Permission of lender required. Apply through Archivist
Related Entries:Australasian Federated Butchers Employees Union (1906 - 1912)

Reference:D83
Date Range:1889 - 1965
Description:South Brisbane Butchers' Employees' Union
Minutes, 1889-1890

Brisbane Butchers' Employees' Union
Minutes, 1890-1892

Australasian Federated Butchers' Employees' Union
Slaughtermen's Branch, Redbank:
Minutes, 1907-1909

Australasian Meat Industry Employees' Union
Queensland Branch, Southern District Council:
Minutes, 1933-1965; correspondence, 1955-1964; arbitration material, 1912-1946; newspaper clippings, 1934-1937.
Quantity:0.7 m
Access:Permission of lender required. Apply through Archivist
Related Entries:Australasian Federated Butchers Employees Union (1906 - 1912) | Brisbane Butchers Employees Union (1890 - ) | South Brisbane Butchers Employees Union

Reference:A72-A75
Date Range:1951 - 1959
Description:Federal Meat Industry Awards, 1951-1959.
Quantity:4 items
Access:Contact repository for details

Reference:A239
Date Range:1970
Description:The Vestey Story, 1970.
Access:Contact repository for details

Reference:D1
Date Range:1920 - 1972
Description:New South Wales Branch: Minutes, 1922-1970; correspondence, 1937-1968; financial material, 1920-1969; arbitration material, 1927-1961; printed matter.
Quantity:5.2 m
Access:Permission of lender required. Apply through Archivist
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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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