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Wright, Tom (1902 - 1981)
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National Library of Australia Oral History Collection
 		 [Repository details]
Date Range:1988
Description:Oral history recording
Interviewee: Mary Wright
Interviewer: Richard Raxworthy

Interview with Mary Wright. Includes reference to: Meeting Tom Wright; Tom Wright's involvement in the union movement; fights on the Labor Council of New South Wales; miners' strike; Jessie Street.
Formats:Audio Tapes.
Quantity:8 sound tape reels
Access:Written permission from the Labor Council of New South Wales required for research and public use
Related Entries:Labor Council of New South Wales (1908 - )
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) | Sheet Metal Working Industrial Union of Australia (1913 - 1945)
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The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Australian National University
 		 [Repository details]
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) | Sheet Metal Working Industrial Union of Australia (1913 - 1945) | Tinsmiths & Sheet Iron Workers Trade Society (1881 - 1902)
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) | Sheet Metal Working Industrial Union of Australia (1913 - 1945)
Title:Tom Wright Papers
Reference:N33
Date Range:1926 - 1978
Description:New South Wales Branch: Correspondence; subject and office files; ACTU papers; files relating to the amalgamation of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, Boilermakers' & Blacksmiths' Society and the Sheet Metal Workers' Union; conference papers; circulars; copies of minutes; publications.
Quantity:2.1 m
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Amalgamated Engineering Union (1969 - 1973) | Amalgamated Metal Workers & Shipwrights Union (1976 - 1983) | Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (i) (1973 - 1976) | Australian Council of Trade Unions (i), ACTU (1947 - 1979) | Boilermakers & Blacksmiths Society of Australia (1965 - 1972) | 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) | Sheet Metal Working Industrial Union of Australia (1913 - 1945)
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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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