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National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection
 		 [Repository details]
Title:Bob Pringle Papers
Reference:NLA MS 7679
Date Range:1972 - 1990
Description:Includes: manuscripts, typescripts, leaflets, circulars, affidavits, correspondence, notes, cuttings, minutes and miscellaneous material relating to the Australian Building Construction Employees' & Builders' Labourers' Federation and the Australian Workers' Union.
Quantity:14 boxes (2 m)
Access:Contact the repository for access details
Related Entries:Australian Building Construction Employees & Builders Labourers Federation (ii) (1976 - 1986) | Australian Workers Union (i), AWU (1905 - 1976) | Australian Workers Union (ii), AWU (1976 - 1988) | Australian Workers Union (iii), AWU (1988 - 1993)
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National Library of Australia Oral History Collection
 		 [Repository details]
Date Range:1991
Description:Oral history recording
Interviewee: Jack Mundey
Interviewer: Ann Turner

Interview with Jack Mundey, unionist and Secretary of the NSW Branch of the Builders' Labourers' Federation. Some of the events and issues covered include: Corruption; bribery; militant rank and file; green bans; strikes; scab labour; Norm Gallagher and the demise of the NSW BLF; Mundey's expulsion from the BLF; deregistration of the BLF.
Formats:Audio Tapes.
Quantity:6 sound tape reels
Access:Access open for research; written permission required for public use during the lifetime of the interviewee
Related Entries:Australian Builders Labourers Federation, BLF (1911 - 1972) | Australian Building Construction Employees & Builders Labourers Federation (ii) (1976 - 1986) | Gallagher, Norm (1931 - 1999) | Mundey, Jack (1929 - )
Date Range:1995
Description:Oral history recording
Interviewee: Russ Hermann
Interviewer: Wendy Lowenstein

This recording includes reference to Russ Hermann's time as a construction worker and member of the BLF.
Formats:Audio Tapes.
Quantity:80 minutes
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Australian Builders Labourers Federation, BLF (1911 - 1972) | Australian Building Construction Employees & Builders Labourers Federation (ii) (1976 - 1986) | Gallagher, Norm (1931 - 1999)
Title:Memories of Norm Gallagher oral history project
Date Range:2000
Description:Oral history recording
Interviewee: Martin Greany
Interviewer: Barry York

Interview with Martin Greany, union organiser for the Australian Building Construction Workers' & Builders' Labourers' Federation, about Norm Gallagher.
Formats:Audio Tapes.
Quantity:2 digital audio tapes
Access:Access open for research; written permission required for public use during the lifetime of the interviewee
Related Entries:Australian Builders Labourers Federation, BLF (1911 - 1972) | Australian Building Construction Employees & Builders Labourers Federation (ii) (1976 - 1986) | Gallagher, Norm (1931 - 1999)
Title:Memories of Norm Gallagher oral history project
Date Range:2000
Description:Oral history recording
Interviewee: Norm Wallace
Interviewer: Barry York

Interview with Norman Wallace, union official for the Australian Building Construction Workers' & Builders' Labourers' Federation, about Norm Gallagher.
Formats:Audio Tapes.
Quantity:2 digital audio tapes
Access:Access open for research; written permission required for public use during the lifetime of the interviewee
Related Entries:Australian Builders Labourers Federation, BLF (1911 - 1972) | Australian Building Construction Employees & Builders Labourers Federation (ii) (1976 - 1986) | Gallagher, Norm (1931 - 1999)
Title:Memories of Norm Gallagher oral history project
Date Range:2000
Description:Oral history recording
Interviewee: Father Peter Norden
Interviewer: Barry York

Interview with Fr. Peter Norden, Jesuit priest and former Chaplain for Pentridge Prison, about Norm Gallagher.
Formats:Audio Tapes.
Quantity:1 digital audio tape
Access:Access open for research; written permission required for public use during the lifetime of the interviewee
Related Entries:Australian Builders Labourers Federation, BLF (1911 - 1972) | Australian Building Construction Employees & Builders Labourers Federation (ii) (1976 - 1986) | Gallagher, Norm (1931 - 1999)
Title:Memories of Norm Gallagher oral history project
Date Range:2000
Description:Oral history project
Interviewee: Norm Gallagher
Interviewer: Barry York

This recording explores Norm Gallagher's time as Victorian leader of the Australian Builders' Labourers' Federation.
Formats:Audio Tapes.
Quantity:5 digital audio tapes
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Australian Builders Labourers Federation, BLF (1911 - 1972) | Australian Building Construction Employees & Builders Labourers Federation (ii) (1976 - 1986) | Gallagher, Norm (1931 - 1999)
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The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Australian National University
 		 [Repository details]
Reference:Z398
Date Range:1923 - 1984
Description:Victorian Branch: Minutes; financial records; membership records; office and industrial files; photographs; newspaper cuttings.
Formats:Photographs.
Quantity:14.7 m
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Australian Builders Labourers Federation, BLF (1911 - 1972) | Australian Building Construction Employees & Builders Labourers Federation (ii) (1976 - 1986)
Reference:Z491
Date Range:1889 - 1973
Description:Queensland Branch: Correspondence; state building trades award history for the ABLF; photocopy of the General Labourers' Union of Australasia minute book, 1889-1891.
Quantity:1.2 m
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Australian Builders Labourers Federation, BLF (1911 - 1972) | General Labourers Union of Australasia (1891 - 1894)
Reference:Z342
Date Range:1972 - 1987
Description:Australian Capital Territory Branch: Records of Committees; correspondence; subject files; membership records; industrial records; financial records; press cuttings; publications.
Quantity:11.7 m
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Australian Building Construction Employees & Builders Labourers Federation (ii) (1976 - 1986)
Reference:N130
Date Range:1910 - 1990
Description:Federal Office: Minute books; general, research and industrial file series; balance sheets; press cuttings; photographs; publications; posters.
Formats:Photographs.
Quantity:109.5 m
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Australian Builders Labourers Federation, BLF (1911 - 1972) | Australian Building Construction Employees & Builders Labourers Federation (ii) (1976 - 1986)
Title:Bob Pringle Papers
Reference:Z331
Date Range:1962 - 1974
Description:Rough minute books of the New South Wales Branch of the Builders' Labourers' Federation.
Quantity:0.3 m
Related Entries:Australian Builders Labourers Federation, BLF (1911 - 1972) | Pringle, Bob (1942 - 1996)
Title:Peter O'Dea Papers
Reference:Z356
Date Range:1968 - 1986
Description:Copies of minutes of the Builders' Labourers' Federation, Federal Office; files, photographs and printed material relating to radical organisations in Adelaide and Canberra.
Quantity:1.84 m
Related Entries:Australian Builders Labourers Federation, BLF (1911 - 1972) | Australian Building Construction Employees & Builders Labourers Federation (ii) (1976 - 1986) | O'Dea, Peter
Title:Don McHugh Papers
Reference:N76
Date Range:1964 - 1976
Description:Papers relating to the ACT Branch of the Builders' Labourers' Federation and personal papers.
Quantity:0.45 m
Related Entries:Australian Builders Labourers Federation, BLF (1911 - 1972) | McHugh, Don
Title:Meredith Burgmann Papers
Reference:N150
Date Range:1950 - 1982
Description:Research files created by Burgmann during the writing of Green Bans, Red Union: Environmental Activism and the New South Wales Builders' Labourers' Federation. Includes records of the New South Wales Branch of the Australian Building Construction Employees' & Builders' Labourers' Federation, correspondence, minutes (copies) and solicitors' correspondence.
Quantity:3.15 m
Related Entries:Australian Building Construction Employees & Builders Labourers Federation (ii) (1976 - 1986) | Burgmann, Meredith (1947 - )
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Published by University of Melbourne, 7 March 2002
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