The University of Melbourne Archives
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| Reference: | 78/106 |
| Date Range: | 1870 - 1970 |
| Description: | MTHC Information & Research Bureau: This material covers a wide range of disparate issues and has been sorted and organised under different titles, and will in the future be referred to by these multiple titles: Melbourne Trades Union Equal Pay Committee, 1940-1965; Melbourne Trade Union Information and Research Bureau subject files; National Trades Hall and Literary Institute Committee minutes, 1870-1875; Pioneers of the Eight-Hour Day Association minutes and membership, 1885-1890; files on arbitration, education, the ALP, Industrial Groups, strikes and union campaigns, workers' compensation, health. |
| Quantity: | 5 m |
| Access: | Open |
| Related Entries: | Melbourne Trades Hall Committee (1856 - 1884) |
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| Reference: | 79/92 |
| Date Range: | c. 1916 - |
| Description: | Melbourne Eight Hour Day Anniversary Committee: Mounted and framed collection of c.120 Eight Hour Day ribbons issued by individual unions to be worn in processions. |
| Quantity: | 1 framed collection of items |
| Access: | Open |
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| Reference: | 91/28 |
| Date Range: | 1867 - 1914 |
| Description: | VTHC Attendence book, 1887-1893; VTHC account book: contains records of the Permanent Hall Building Fund, 17 May 1867-1877; later used to record accounts of funds raised by appeal for strikes, c 1906-1914. |
| Quantity: | 0.06 m |
| Access: | Restricted |
| Related Entries: | Melbourne Trades Hall Committee (1856 - 1884) |
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| Reference: | 78/82 |
| Date Range: | 1903 - 1939 |
| Description: | One mounted collection of union Eight-Hour Day ribbons; one round, framed profile plaster plaque of Dr. Maloney, Labor M.H.R. by Charles Costermans (brief reference in Scarlett's Australian Sculptors); collection of union/political pamphlets. |
| Formats: | Objects. |
| Access: | Open |
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| Reference: | 79/107 |
| Date Range: | 1930 - 1931 |
| Description: | Seven home-made bludgeons. The items in this accession have been incorporated in the List and Index of the Victorian Trades Hall Council Records, p.64, item 30/5/4. They were reputedly part of the Communist Party of Australia armoury in the attacks upon the Melbourne Trades Hall Council 'social-fascists', c.1930-1931. |
| Formats: | Objects. |
| Quantity: | 1 case containing seven artefacts |
| Access: | Open |
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| Reference: | 86/98 |
| Date Range: | 1874 - 1976 |
| Description: | Minutes of the council and Executive, 1884-1974; financial papers including ledgers, cash books, balance sheets, strikes and appeals accounts, petty cash, wages, building fund, Eight Hour Day Committee, leasing agreements between Trades Hall Council and other unions, 1874-1976; general correspondence, 1925-1971. |
| Quantity: | 20 m |
| Access: | Restricted |
| Related Entries: | Melbourne Trades Hall Committee (1856 - 1884) | Victorian Trades Hall Council (1970 - ) |
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| Reference: | 86/156 |
| Date Range: | 1877 - 1927 |
| Description: | Microfilm of: - Council Minutes, 1877-1883, 1887-1897, 1897-1901; Executive Minutes, 1904-1909, 1910-1912, 1917-1922, 1922-1927. |
| Formats: | Microfilm. |
| Quantity: | 4 reels |
| Access: | Open |
| Related Entries: | Melbourne Trades Hall Committee (1856 - 1884) |
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| Reference: | 88/62 |
| Date Range: | c. 1910 - 1975 |
| Description: | Minutes, correspondence, subject files, financial material, pamphlets, flyers, etc. See 'The Records of the Victorian Trades Hall Council: First Accession, 1857-1988' listed and indexed by Andrew Forell and Maryanne McCubbin, in 2 Volumes published by VTHC and University of Melbourne Archives 1989 for a full description of the contents. |
| Quantity: | 300 boxes |
| Access: | Restricted |
| Related Entries: | Victorian Trades Hall Council (1970 - ) |
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| Reference: | 78/110 |
| Date Range: | 1940 - 1967 |
| Description: | Melbourne Trades Hall Council
Equal Pay Committee: Yearly organisational documents including correspondence, pamphlets and flyers; wage relativity statistics; Equal Pay for the Sexes, a survey on women's wages by Muriel Heagney; minutes of Equal Pay Committee of NSW convened by ACTU (copies). |
| Quantity: | 3 boxes |
| Access: | Open |
| Related Entries: | Heagney, Muriel Agnes (1885 - 1974) |
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| Reference: | 91/30 |
| Date Range: | 1950 - 1975 |
| Description: | Rough minute books of the Trades Hall Council; texts of addresses by Trades Hall Council members, c. 1950s. |
| Quantity: | 0.5 m |
| Access: | Restricted |
| Related Entries: | Victorian Trades Hall Council (1970 - ) |
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| Reference: | 94/55 |
| Date Range: | c. 1950 - c. 1980 |
| Description: | Pamphlets, union journals and broadsheets from the Library of the Victorian Trades Hall Council. Some are publications by the VTHC and some were collected by it and filed in subject boxes for the use of Trades Hall members for research and education. |
| Quantity: | 26 boxes |
| Access: | Open |
| Related Entries: | Victorian Trades Hall Council (1970 - ) |
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| Reference: | 98/22 |
| Date Range: | 1891 - |
| Description: | Photocopy of 'The Great Maritime Strike of 1890', pamphlet issued by the Melbourne Trades Hall Council Committee of Finance and Control, 1891. The original from which this is copied was presented by John Hancock, Chairman of the Committee and W. Murphy, Secretary, to Sir Brian O'Laghlan Bart. M.P. on 13 February 1891 in thanks for his support. The original is retained by Michael O'Lachlen, QC, his grandson. |
| Quantity: | 0.01 m |
| Access: | Restricted |
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| Reference: | 101/20 |
| Date Range: | 1957 - 1983 |
| Description: | Victorian Trades Hall Council Central Files, 'pre-1972' to 1983; Files include Executive business sheets and minutes, union correspondence and general subject files; Comprehensive records of VTHC activities and concerns. As in previous Trades Hall Council accessions, the records also provide a starting point to researching Victorian unions affiliated with the Trades Hall Council. |
| Quantity: | 399 boxes |
| Access: | Restricted |
| Related Entries: | Victorian Trades Hall Council (1970 - ) |
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| Reference: | 89/154 |
| Date Range: | 1925 - 1974 |
| Description: | Melbourne May Day Committee: Leaflets; flyers; correspondence; resolutions; working papers including mailing lists; organisational material; financial papers including receipt books; rubber stamps and badges; invitations; posters including "March on the May Day", 2 May 1971; graphics; memorabilia. |
| Formats: | Artwork and Objects. |
| Quantity: | 1 box (0.1 m) |
| Access: | Open |
| Related Entries: | Victorian Trades Hall Council (1970 - ) |
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| Reference: | 90/66 |
| Date Range: | 1968 - |
| Description: | Melbourne May Day Committee: Video (no sound) of May Day marches in Sydney and Melbourne in 1968, and of protests outside Pentridge Prison against the imprisonment of anti-warships protestor Rolf Hiemann. |
| Formats: | Video. |
| Quantity: | 1 VHS video |
| Access: | Open |
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| Reference: | 77/114 |
| Date Range: | 1885 - 1892 |
| Description: | Minutes and membership roll, 1885-1892; printed appeal and subscription lists for the James Stephens Appeal (Stephens, the original sponsor of the Eight Hour Movement, was crippled in an industrial accident), 1884. |
| Quantity: | 1 box (0.1 m) |
| Access: | Open |
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| Reference: | 84/145 |
| Date Range: | 1940 - 1967 |
| Description: | Melbourne Trades Hall Council
Equal Pay Committee: Pamphlets; booklets; organising material; newspaper clippings; publications; petitions; correspondence; circulars; memorandums, 1940-1967. Equal Pay Committee NSW ledger including correspondence; newspaper clippings; legislation; papers, 1941-1961; Equal Pay Committee Survey on Womens' Wages "Equal Pay for the Sexes" by Muriel Heagney, June 1948. |
| Quantity: | 3 boxes (0.4 m) |
| Access: | Open |
| Related Entries: | Heagney, Muriel Agnes (1885 - 1974) |
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| Reference: | 102/24 |
| Date Range: | 1857 - 1934 |
| Description: | Literary Institute : Correspondence between the Trades Hall and Literary Institute Committee and Commissioner of Crown Lands 1857-1863; correspondence concerning replacement of Trustees and dispute between THC and Trustees 1885-1886; legal opinion and circulars on this dispute; loan agreements; auditors' reports and balance sheets; plan for Geelong Trades Hall building 1925; Trades Hall 'Dancing Hall' specification 1916; insurance policies; The National Trades Hall and Literary Institute Objects and Rules [n.d.]. |
| Quantity: | 2 boxes (0.25 m) |
| Access: | Open |
| Related Entries: | Melbourne Trades Hall Committee (1856 - 1884) |
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| Reference: | 99/66 |
| Date Range: | 1910 - 1932 |
| Description: | Committee membership book, containing names, addresses, offices held, terms of appointment, dates of election or appointment, dates and causes of termination, for Executive Committee, Building Committee, Organising Committee, Parliamentary Committee, Library Committee, Industrial Disputes Committee, Finance Committee, and (later) Bureau Committee, Press Committee, Eight Hours Committee, ACTU Representatives, Consolidation Committee. |
| Quantity: | 1 volume (0.04 m) |
| Access: | Open |
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