Australian Workers Union (i) (1905 - 1976)
AWU
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Archives Office of Tasmania
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[Repository details]
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| Reference: | NS 1115 |
| Description: | Tasmanian Branch: Membership tickets, 1912-1952, includes Victoria-Riverina-Tasmania Branch (incomplete run). |
| Access: | Application for access to be made to repository. |
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Auchmuty Library, Archives Rare Books and Special Collections Unit, University of Newcastle
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[Repository details]
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| Reference: | A5055 |
| Date Range: | 1959 - 1969 |
| Description: | Council for Membership Control of AWU: Printed material, 1959-1969. |
| Quantity: | 1 box |
| Access: | Available for reference |
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JS Battye Library of West Australian History, Library and Information Service of Western Australia
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[Repository details]
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| Reference: | MN 1440 |
| Date Range: | 1959 - 1970 |
| Description: | Council for Membership Control: The files consist of leaflets issued by the CMC; complete run of the Voice of the rank and file, the official organ of the CMC; election leaflets and pamphlets. |
| Quantity: | 0.01 m |
| Access: | Available for reference, not for loan |
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Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales
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| Title: | Timothy James O'Sullivan papers |
| Reference: | A2886 |
| Description: | Charles Wiliam O'Sullivan, the history of the man and his union ticket, 1946 with additions by others to 1957. (ms with newscuttings, prints) |
| Access: | Contact repository for details |
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| Reference: | A2159 |
| Date Range: | 1945 |
| Description: | John Bailey, Short history of the Shearers' Union in the making, the establishment of poloitical action by shearers union. W.A. Holman association with the shearers union [typescript]. |
| Access: | Contact repository for details |
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| Title: | George Waite Papers |
| Reference: | ML MSS 208 |
| Date Range: | c. 1885 - c. 1926 |
| Description: | Correspondence and subject files related to the United Labourers' Protective Society, the Australian Labor Party, the Socialist Party of Victoria and the Industrial Workers of the World. Included is a signed Memorandum of Agreement between the United Labourers' Protective Society and the Australian Workers' Union, dated 27 October 1902. |
| Quantity: | 3 boxes (0.51 m) |
| Access: | See repository for details |
| Related Entries: | United Laborers Protective Society of New South Wales (1883? - 1941) | Waite, George |
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National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection
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| Title: | Frank Henderson Certificate |
| Reference: | NLA MS 648 |
| Date Range: | 1894 |
| Description: | Members' certificate no. 4015, issued to Frank Henderson on 3 October 1894 from the Australian Workers' Union. |
| Formats: | Objects. |
| Quantity: | 1 certificate |
| Access: | Available for reference, not for loan |
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| Title: | Papers of Clyde Cameron |
| Reference: | NLA MS 4614 |
| Date Range: | 1884 - |
| Description: | Includes: Minutes; reports; articles related to Australian Workers' Union. Detailed list available. |
| Quantity: | 13 m |
| Access: | Mostly available for reference; some parts closed |
| Related Entries: | Cameron, Clyde Robert (1913 - ) |
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| 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 (i) (1972 - 1974) | Australian Building Construction Employees & Builders Labourers Federation (ii) (1976 - 1986) | Australian Workers Union (ii), AWU (1976 - 1988) | Australian Workers Union (iii), AWU (1988 - 1993) |
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| Reference: | NLA MS 7089 |
| Date Range: | 1922 |
| Description: | Dubbo Delegate Conference report, 20 June 1922; International Labor Defence - Dimitrov's Indictment of the Prosecution at the Reichstag; Fire trial report; World Disarmament Movement brochures; Australian Workers' Union pamphlet; typescript material on the Hughes Economic Conference, 1922. |
| Quantity: | 0.05 m |
| Access: | Available for reference, not for loan |
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| Title: | Tom Brislan Papers |
| Reference: | NLA Mfm G 23067 |
| Date Range: | 1910 - 1972 |
| Description: | Copy of Tom Brislan's autobiography, A Maverick Among Marxists: Includes autobiographical accounts of phases of his life, mixed with reflections on issues at the time of writing. Topics include Catholic education, the Irish problem, the world wars, conscription, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, the Liberal government of 1972, the Great Depression, industrial disputes (Queensland shearers, circa 1930 and Balmain ironworkers, circa 1945), the Australian union movement, the arbitration system and the Communist Party. |
| Formats: | Microfilm. |
| Quantity: | 1 reel |
| Access: | Available for reference |
| Related Entries: | Federated Ironworkers Association of Australia (i) (1911 - 1975) |
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| Title: | Edward Theodore Papers |
| Reference: | NLA MS 7222 |
| Date Range: | 1906 - 1972 |
| Description: | Includes Australian Workers' Union tickets. |
| Quantity: | 0.3 m |
| Access: | Available for reference, not for loan |
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National Library of Australia Oral History Collection
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| Title: | Labor Council of New South Wales Oral History Project |
| Date Range: | 1985 |
| Description: | Oral history recording
Interviewee: Jack McPhillips
Interviewer: Richard Raxworthy
Interview with Jack McPhillips, trade union official. Includes reference to: McPhillips time as a union organiser for the Factory Department of AWU; AWU opposition groups; North Australian Workers' Union; Arbitration Agent for Federated Ironworkers; 1949 Coal Strike. |
| Formats: | Audio Tapes. |
| Quantity: | 150 minutes |
| Access: | Written permission required from the Labor Council of New South Wales for research and public use |
| Related Entries: | Federated Ironworkers Association of Australia (i) (1911 - 1975) | North Australian Workers Union (1927 - 1972) |
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| Title: | Alan Scott folklore collection |
| Date Range: | 1989 |
| Description: | Oral history recording
Interviewee: John Kenna
Interviewers: Alan Scott & Kevin Baker
This recording includes reference John Kenna's involvement as a shearer in the Australian Workers' Union. |
| Formats: | Audio Tapes. |
| Quantity: | 1 sound tape reel |
| Access: | Open |
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| Title: | Parliaments' Oral History Project |
| Date Range: | 1988 |
| Description: | Oral history recording
Interviewee: Donald Newton Cameron
Interviewer: Bruce Edwards
This recording includes reference to: working as a shearer and organiser for the Australian Workers' Union; the 1956 shearing strike; election as Union Secretary in 1964. |
| Formats: | Audio Tapes. |
| Quantity: | 240 minutes |
| Access: | Access open for research and public use |
| Related Entries: | Cameron, Donald Newton (1914 - 1998) |
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| Title: | Parliaments' Oral History Project |
| Date Range: | 1984 |
| Description: | Oral history project
Interviewee: Bert Lacey
Interviewer: Peter MacFie
This recording includes reference to Lacey's work as an organiser for the Australian Workers' Union during the period, 1938-1947. |
| Formats: | Audio Tapes. |
| Quantity: | 30 minutes |
| Access: | Open |
| Related Entries: | Lacey, Bert (1900 - 1984) |
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| Date Range: | 1982 |
| Description: | Oral history recording
Interviewee: Cecil Thompson Oliver
Interviewer: Bob Carr
Interview with Cecil Oliver, member of the Australian Workers' Union. Includes reference to: joining Miners' Union; the various unions (Cue Miners, the Meekatharra Miners, Mt. Magnet Miners); amalgamation of all the little unions to create a Federation; amalgamation of the Federation with the AWU in 1923; the Australian Workers' Union; early career with the AWU; first union organiser he encountered Frank Toy (Frankie Micky Troy); union issues in the 1920s & 1930s. |
| Formats: | Audio Tapes. |
| Quantity: | 2 sound tape reels |
| Access: | Access open for research; written permission required for public use during the lifetime of the interviewee |
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| Title: | Maltese Australian Folklife and Social History Project |
| Date Range: | 1984 |
| Description: | Oral history recording
Interviewee: Joseph Debrincat
Interviewer: Barry York
This recording includes reference to the Australian Workers' Union. |
| Quantity: | 1 transcript only |
| Access: | Open |
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The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Australian National University
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| Title: | James Docherty Papers |
| Reference: | P106 |
| Date Range: | 1971 - 1974 |
| Description: | Copy of James Docherty's MA thesis on the rise of railway unionism and Australian Workers' Union election leaflets. |
| Quantity: | 0.03 m |
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| Title: | Clyde Cameron Papers |
| Reference: | P81 |
| Date Range: | 1944 - 1947 |
| Description: | Pamphlets, leaflets and circulars relating to schisms within the Australian Workers' Union. |
| Quantity: | 0.12 m |
| Related Entries: | Cameron, Clyde Robert (1913 - ) |
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| Title: | Tom Brislan Papers |
| Reference: | M67 |
| Date Range: | 1910 - 1972 |
| Description: | Copy of Tom Brislan's autobiography, A Maverick Among Marxists: Includes autobiographical accounts of phases of his life, mixed with reflections on issues at the time of writing. Topics include Catholic education, the Irish problem, the world wars, conscription, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, the Liberal government of 1972, the Great Depression, industrial disputes (Queensland shearers, circa 1930 and Balmain ironworkers, circa 1945), the Australian union movement, the arbitration system and the Communist Party. |
| Formats: | Microfilm. |
| Quantity: | 1 reel |
| Related Entries: | Federated Ironworkers Association of Australia (i) (1911 - 1975) |
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| Title: | Malcolm Robertson Papers |
| Reference: | Z576 |
| Date Range: | c. 1911 - c. 1957 |
| Description: | Includes material relating to: the Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch); Australian Workers' Union (Mildura Branch); Trades Hall Council (Mildura). |
| Quantity: | 0.15 m |
| Related Entries: | Mildura Trades & Labor Council | Robertson, Malcolm |
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| Title: | Edgar Willliams Papers |
| Reference: | P62 |
| Date Range: | 1956 - 1969 |
| Description: | Australian Workers' Union publications and reports, together with Williams' book, Yellow, Green and Red. |
| Quantity: | 0.22 m |
| Related Entries: | Williams, Cecil Wallace Edgar (1911 - ) |
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| Reference: | M47; M49; P50 |
| Date Range: | 1914 - 1968 |
| Description: | Western Australian Branch: Includes: Records of M. Butler, T. Cavanagh, R. Hinton, A. Stevenson; Westralian Worker. |
| Quantity: | 0.9 m |
| Access: | Contact repository for details |
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State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection
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| Title: | Vincent Nesfield Papers |
| Reference: | MS 12979 |
| Date Range: | c. 1922 - 1932 |
| Description: | Includes: Vincent Nesfield's membership tickets of the Queensland branch of the Australian Workers' Union, 1926-1930. |
| Quantity: | 0.01 m |
| Access: | Available for reference |
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| Title: | Patrick Winfield Papers |
| Reference: | MS 12023 |
| Date Range: | c. 1910 - 1930 |
| Description: | Personal papers comprising membership tickets and documents relating to the Australian Workers' Union c1910-1930, includes membership badge. |
| Access: | Contact archive for access conditions. |
| Related Entries: | Winfield, Patrick |
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| Title: | William Guthrie Spence Papers |
| Reference: | MS 9917 |
| Date Range: | 1871 - 1927 |
| Description: | Correspondence, 1871-1920; comprising a small group of eleven letters (correspondents include Mary and George Savage and William Morris Hughes); miscellaneous personal and legal documents of W.G. Spence and relatives, 1871-1927; photographs and other papers. |
| Formats: | Photographs. |
| Quantity: | 5 boxes |
| Access: | Available for reference |
| Related Entries: | Hughes, William Morris (1862 - 1952) | Spence, William Guthrie (1846 - 1926) |
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| Title: | Rupert Perrett Papers |
| Reference: | MS 9908 |
| Date Range: | c. 1915 - c. 1970 |
| Description: | Scrapbooks of newspaper cuttings interleaved with correspondence, 1915-1970. Volume 2 refers to the Australian Workers' Union and volume 6 refers to the Federated Ironworkers' Association of Australia. |
| Access: | Contact archive for access conditions. |
| Related Entries: | Federated Ironworkers Association of Australia (i) (1911 - 1975) | Perrett, Rupert |
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| Title: | James J Griffiths Papers |
| Date Range: | 1943 - 1962 |
| Description: | Includes diaries describing his activities as a union organiser in 1948 and 1952; Australian Workers' Union membership tickets 1943-1962; Organiser's Ticket Record 1955-1956; shearers' wage formula 1955. |
| Access: | Contact archive for access conditions. |
| Related Entries: | Griffiths, James J |
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The University of Melbourne Archives
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[Repository details]
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| Reference: | 83/67 |
| Date Range: | 1956 - 1962 |
| Description: | Casterton Strike Committee: Minutes, 1956-1959; correspondence, 1956-1957; special meeting of the Executive Council, 1956; Shearing Industry determination, Victoria; list of scab labour; Australian Workers' Union ballot pamphlets, 1961- 1962; Australian Workers' Union official report, 1961. |
| Quantity: | 1 box (0.1 m) |
| Access: | Open |
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| Reference: | 96/43 |
| Date Range: | 1972 - |
| Description: | Victorian/Riverina Branch: Group photograph of Australian Workers' Union (Victoria-Riverina Branch) First Branch Executive Meeting Held at Creswick House on July 6th, 1972. Includes: Rear L to R: I McKenzie, A C Rickard, W C Newman, J F Williams(Minutes Secretary). Front L to R: J R McClure, P T Green (Vice-President), M.D. Murdoch (President), D.W. McIntosh (Secretary), K. Tippet (Vice-President), R.H. Cuttler. |
| Formats: | Photographs. |
| Quantity: | 1 photograph |
| Access: | Open |
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| Reference: | 86/140 |
| Date Range: | 1955 - 1975 |
| Description: | Victorian/Riverina Branch: Membership rolls, 1955-1975 (20 volumes); The Australian Worker- bound volumes, January 1955 - December 1975 (22 volumes). |
| Quantity: | 1.8 m |
| Access: | Restricted |
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| Reference: | 80/90 |
| Date Range: | 1908 - 1970 |
| Description: | Victorian/Riverina Branch: Bound volumes of constitution and rules, 1920-1977; Australian Workers' Union [AWU] official reports of annual (National) convention, 1955-1974; annual reports and balance sheets of AWU Victorian-Riverina Branch, 1919-1972; annual reports and balance sheets of AWU South Australian Branch, 1974 and Queensland Branch, 1967-1973 (incomplete); membership rolls pastoral, general, Melbourne office, Mildura roll, 1911-1915; membership rolls mining section roll, 1918-1925 and Victorian-Riverina Branch Tasmanian section roll, 1923-1927; newspapers The Australian Worker, 1907-1954; pamphlets. |
| Quantity: | 7 m |
| Access: | Restricted |
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University of Wollongong Archives
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[Repository details]
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| Reference: | A32 |
| Date Range: | 1917 |
| Description: | Railway Workers' Industry Branch:Annual Report and balance sheet, for eleven months ending May 31, 1917. |
| Quantity: | 1 item |
| Access: | Contact repository for details |
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| Title: | Lewis George McKay Collection |
| Reference: | D120 |
| Date Range: | 1944 - 1975 |
| Description: | New South Wales Branch: Correspondence files, copies of minutes and documents relating to the Australian Workers' Union (NSW) Branch mainly for the period 1957-1973. Record group includes a typescript draft of 'reminiscences'. |
| Quantity: | 5 m |
| Access: | Restricted |
| Related Entries: | McKay, Lewis George |
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| Reference: | A368 |
| Date Range: | 1939 |
| Description: | Basic wage case (Queensland), 1939. |
| Access: | Contact repository for details |
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| Reference: | C10 |
| Date Range: | 1959 - 1972 |
| Description: | Council for Membership Control: Includes: Booklets; pamphlets and other published ephemera relating to the Union in the Illawarra region. |
| Access: | Contact repository for details |
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| Reference: | C25 |
| Date Range: | 1938 - 1946 |
| Description: | Includes: Booklets; pamphlets and other published ephemera relating to the 40 hour week Campaign conducted by the Australian Workers' Union in the Illawarra region. |
| Access: | Contact repository for details |
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| Title: | Leonard Boardman - Unemployed Workers' Movement |
| Reference: | B9 |
| Date Range: | 1929 - 1933 |
| Description: | Oral history recording
Interviewee: Leonard Boardman
Interviewer: Heather Williamson
Leonard Boardman was Secretary of the Coledale Branch of the Unemployed Workers' Movement until he gained employment as an organiser with the Australian Workers' Union in 1933. The Movement sought to assist unemployed workers, particularly those with families, survive during the Depression years of the 1930s. |
| Formats: | Audio. |
| Quantity: | 40 minutes |
| Access: | Contact repository for details |
| Related Entries: | Boardman, Leonard |
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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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