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New South Wales Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers Society (1910 - 1916)

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Function: Trade Union (State or Territory only)
Location: New South Wales
The New South Wales Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers Society was originally known as the Tinsmiths & Sheet Iron Workers' Trade Society.

Formed on 20 December 1881 at Kelly's Hotel in Sydney, the Tinsmiths & Sheet Iron Workers' Trade Society operated until 1902 when it changed names to the New South Wales Amalgamated Tinsmiths Sheet Iron Workers & Meter Makers Trade Society. In 1910 the Union again changed its name to the New South Wales Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers' Society.

Although a federal union was formed in November the following year, in 1911, but the New South Wales Sheet Metal Workers did not join it. The Federal Union was the Amalgamated Tinsmiths Sheet Metal Workers Cannister Makers Gas Meter Makers & Assistants Union and was made up of members in Victoria and Queensland.

In 1916 the Union became known as the New South Wales Amalgamated Tinsmiths' & Sheet Metal Workers' Society. By 1919 this Union eventually joined the federal body and became the New South Wales Branch of the Sheet Metal Working Industrial Union of Australia.

In 1945 this Union and the Federated Agricultural Implement & Stovemakers Porcelain Enamellers & Ironworkers Association amalgamated to form the Sheet Metal Working Agricultural Implement & Stovemaking Industrial Union of Australia. This Union together with the Amalgamated Engineering Union and the Boilermakers' & Blacksmiths' formed the Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union in 1972.

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Previous and Subsequent Entities

 1881 - 1902 Tinsmiths & Sheet Iron Workers Trade Society
       1902 - 1910 New South Wales Amalgamated Tinsmiths Sheet Iron Workers & Meter Makers Trade Society
             1910 - 1916 New South Wales Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers Society
                   1916 - 1919 New South Wales Amalgamated Tinsmiths & Sheet Metal Workers Society
                         1913 - 1945 Sheet Metal Working Industrial Union of Australia
                               1945 - 1972 Sheet Metal Working Agricultural Implement & Stove Making Industrial Union of Australia

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Structure based on ISAAR(CPF) - click here for an explanation of the fields.Prepared by: Ross G. Elford
Created: 8 February 2002
Modified: 12 December 2002

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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