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National Library of Australia Oral History Collection
 		 [Repository details]
Title:Labor Council of New South Wales Oral History Project
Date Range:1988
Description:Oral history recording
Interviewee: Jack Heffernan
Interviewer: Richard Raxworthy

Interview with Jack Heffernan, Secretary of the Sheet Metal Workers' Union of Australia. Includes reference to: Communist Party involvement in the Union; joining the ALP; Tom Wright; working in the Union office; industrial democracy; Chifley government; coal strike; conciliation and arbitration in the 1940s and 1950s; ballots; BLF and green bans; cooperation between metal unions; demarcation issues; union officials; penal clauses; equal pay for women; improvements to the arbitration system; TUTA; effect of union work on family and social life.
Formats:Audio Tapes.
Quantity:8 sound tape reels
Access:Written permission from Labor Council of New South Wales required for research and public use
Related Entries:Australian Builders Labourers Federation, BLF (1911 - 1972) | Heffernan, Jack (1916 - ) | Sheet Metal Working Agricultural Implement & Stove Making Industrial Union of Australia (1945 - 1972) | Wright, Tom (1902 - 1981)
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The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Australian National University
 		 [Repository details]
Reference:E186; E187
Date Range:1883 - 1959
Description:Victorian Branch: Registers of members; contribution books; financial records.
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Amalgamated Tinsmiths Sheet Metal Workers Cannister Makers Gas Meter Makers & Assistants Union (1911 - 1913) | Sheet Metal Working Agricultural Implement & Stove Making Industrial Union of Australia (1945 - 1972) | United Tinsmiths & Sheet Metal Workers Society of Victoria (c. 1903 - 1911) | United Tinsmiths Ironworkers and Japanners Society of Victoria (1883 - 1910)
Reference:E222 (pt); E110
Date Range:1911 - 1972
Description:South Australian Branch: Minute books; contribution books; membership rolls; rules; correspondence; financial records; printed material.
Quantity:1.95 m
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Amalgamated Tinsmiths Sheet Metal Workers Cannister Makers Gas Meter Makers & Assistants Union (1911 - 1913) | Sheet Metal Working Agricultural Implement & Stove Making Industrial Union of Australia (1945 - 1972)
Reference:E220 (pt)
Date Range:1913 - 1972
Description:Queensland Branch: Minute books; industrial papers; organisers file; financial records; Certificate of Registration; papers relating to amalgamations and name changes, 1913-1933.
Quantity:0.1 m
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Sheet Metal Working Agricultural Implement & Stove Making Industrial Union of Australia (1945 - 1972)
Reference:T23; N33; E196 (pt); E206 (pt); E232; E245; E262 (pt)
Date Range:1881 - 1975
Description:New South Wales: Includes: Minute books; rule books; subject and office files; membership records; financial records; correspondence; files of Tom Wright; secretary's correspondence; organisers' files; files of the Assistant Secretary; records of the Women's Committee; financial records; memorabilia; photographs; publications.
Quantity:26 m
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Amalgamated Engineering Union (1969 - 1973) | Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (i) (1973 - 1976) | Amalgamated Tinsmiths Sheet Metal Workers Cannister Makers Gas Meter Makers & Assistants Union (1911 - 1913) | New South Wales Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers Society (1910 - 1916) | New South Wales Amalgamated Tinsmiths & Sheet Metal Workers Society (1916 - 1919) | New South Wales Amalgamated Tinsmiths Sheet Iron Workers & Meter Makers Trade Society (1902 - 1910) | Sheet Metal Working Agricultural Implement & Stove Making Industrial Union of Australia (1945 - 1972) | Tinsmiths & Sheet Iron Workers Trade Society (1881 - 1902) | Wright, Tom (1902 - 1981)
Reference:E196; E206; N24 (pt)
Date Range:1915 - 1973
Description:Federal Council: Includes: Minutes; circulars; correspondence; subject files; arbitration files; files of the Federal President, Tom Wright; leaflets and pamphlets; printed material.
Quantity:12.9 m
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Amalgamated Tinsmiths Sheet Metal Workers Cannister Makers Gas Meter Makers & Assistants Union (1911 - 1913) | Sheet Metal Working Agricultural Implement & Stove Making Industrial Union of Australia (1945 - 1972) | Wright, Tom (1902 - 1981)
Reference:Z240
Date Range:1880 - 1975
Description:Queensland Branch: Records of district committees and branches. Includes: Minute books; correspondence; general files; reports membership records; conference papers; publications.
Quantity:13.8 m
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Amalgamated Engineering Union (1969 - 1973) | Amalgamated Engineering Union (Australian Section) (1938 - 1969) | Amalgamated Engineering Union, Australian Section (1921 - 1938) | Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (i) (1973 - 1976) | Amalgamated Society of Engineers (1905 - 1921) | Amalgamated Tinsmiths Sheet Metal Workers Cannister Makers Gas Meter Makers & Assistants Union (1911 - 1913) | Boilermakers & Blacksmiths Society of Australia (1965 - 1972) | Boilermakers Society of Australia (1937 - 1965) | Federated Society of Boilermakers & Iron Shipbuilders of Australia (1911 - 1929) | Federated Society of Boilermakers Iron Shipbuilders & Structural Iron & Steel Workers of Australia (1929 - 1937) | Sheet Metal Working Agricultural Implement & Stove Making Industrial Union of Australia (1945 - 1972)
Title:Tom Wright Papers
Reference:P120 & Z267
Date Range:1886 - 1988
Description:Includes files of the Sheet Metal Workers' Union; Tom Wright's personal papers and notes, including some correspondence; his large collection of political pamphlets, leaflets, serials, press cuttings, cartoons and photographs, notably material on Aboriginal and women's rights.
Formats:Artwork and Photographs.
Quantity:13.1 m
Related Entries:Amalgamated Tinsmiths Sheet Metal Workers Cannister Makers Gas Meter Makers & Assistants Union (1911 - 1913) | Sheet Metal Working Agricultural Implement & Stove Making Industrial Union of Australia (1945 - 1972) | Wright, Tom (1902 - 1981)
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The University of Melbourne Archives
 		 [Repository details]
Reference:102/11
Date Range:1921
Description:Victorian Branch : Framed certificate presented to Thomas H. Elliott (c.1870-1934) in recognition of the valuable services rendered by him as a member of the Tinsmiths' Wages Board from 1911 to 1920.
Quantity:1 Certificate
Access:Open
Reference:95/93
Date Range:1885 - c. 1972
Description:Agricultural Implement & Machine Makers' Society
Minutes, 1885-1890.

Federated Agricultural Implement & Machinery & Ironworkers' Association
Victorian Branch: Minutes, 1911-1929.

Sheet Metal Working Industrial Union of Australia
Awards and Determinations, 1939-.

Sheet Metal Working Agricultural Implement & Stovemaking Industrial Union of Australia
Victorian Branch: Awards, determinations and general files, c1945-1972 and continuing as awards and determinations of the Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union; journal The Sheet Metal Worker, 1936-1972; Sheet Metal Workers' Board of Management minutes, 1965-1972.
Quantity:14 boxes
Access:Restricted
Related Entries:Agricultural Implement & Machine Makers Society (c. 1885 - ) | Federated Agricultural Implement & Machinery & Ironworkers Association of Australia (1908 - 1913) | Federated Agricultural Implement & Stovemakers Porcelain Enamellers & Ironworkers Association of Australia (1941 - 1949) | Federated Agricultural Implement Machinery & Ironworkers Association of Australia (1924 - 1941) | Federated Implement Machinery & Ironworkers Association of Australia (1913 - 1924) | Sheet Metal Working Agricultural Implement & Stove Making Industrial Union of Australia (1945 - 1972) | United Tinsmiths & Sheet Metal Workers Society of Victoria (c. 1903 - 1911) | Victorian Agricultural Implement & Machine Makers' Society (c. 1890 - 1908)
Reference:86/139
Date Range:1857 - 1975
Description:Federated Agricultural Implement Makers' Union
Minutes, 1890-1949.

Sheet Metal Working Industrial Union of Australia
Minutes and material.

Sheet Metal Working Agricultural Implement and Stovemaking Industrial Union of Australia
Federal & Victorian Branches: Minutes; correspondence; accounts; membership files; conference material; Federal council/office; subject files; arbitration awards and agreements (Federal, Commonwealth & State); legal representation; metal trades federation material; personal documents; Geelong Branch minutes, 1939-1972.
Quantity:135 boxes & 1 folder
Access:Restricted
Related Entries:Amalgamated Tinsmiths Sheet Metal Workers Cannister Makers Gas Meter Makers & Assistants Union (1911 - 1913) | Federated Agricultural Implement & Machinery & Ironworkers Association of Australia (1908 - 1913) | Federated Agricultural Implement & Stovemakers Porcelain Enamellers & Ironworkers Association of Australia (1941 - 1949) | Federated Agricultural Implement Machinery & Ironworkers Association of Australia (1924 - 1941) | Federated Implement Machinery & Ironworkers Association of Australia (1913 - 1924) | Sheet Metal Working Agricultural Implement & Stove Making Industrial Union of Australia (1945 - 1972) | United Tinsmiths & Sheet Metal Workers Society of Victoria (c. 1903 - 1911) | Victorian Agricultural Implement & Machine Makers' Society (c. 1890 - 1908)
Reference:87/119
Date Range:1936 - 1972
Description:The Sheet Metal Worker, 1936-1972 (no 1945-1946 copies). Bound volumes.
Quantity:2 boxes (0.2 m)
Access:Open
Related Entries:Sheet Metal Working Agricultural Implement & Stove Making Industrial Union of Australia (1945 - 1972)
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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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