Trade Union entry Amalgamated Tinsmiths Sheet Metal Workers Cannister Makers Gas Meter Makers & Assistants Union (1911 - 1913)

Summary

Originally registered as the Amalgamated Tinsmiths' Sheet Metal Workers' Cannister Makers' Gas Meter Makers' & Assistants' Union in 1911, this union's lineage actually dates back to the United Tinsmiths' Ironworkers' and Japanners' Society of Victoria which operated from 1883. From 1913 the Amalgamated Tinsmiths' Sheet Metal Workers' Cannister Makers' Gas Meter Makers' & Assistants' Union had changed to become the Sheet Metal Working Industrial Union of Australia. During the mid 1940s members of the soon-to-be deregistered Federated Agricultural Implement & Stovemakers' Porcelain Enamellers' & Ironworkers' Association of Australia began to fill the ranks of the Sheet Metal Working Industrial Union of Australia to the extent that by 1945, the union changed names to the Sheet Metal Working Agricultural Implement & Stove Making Industrial Union of Australia. This union was itself deregistered in 1972. Many of its members however, were inducted into the Amalgamated Engineering Union, which a year later became the Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union.

Related entries

Timeline

 1883 - 1910 United Tinsmiths Ironworkers and Japanners Society of Victoria
 c. 1903 - 1911 United Tinsmiths & Sheet Metal Workers Society of Victoria
       1911 - 1913 Amalgamated Tinsmiths Sheet Metal Workers Cannister Makers Gas Meter Makers & Assistants Union
             1913 - 1945 Sheet Metal Working Industrial Union of Australia
                   1945 - 1972 Sheet Metal Working Agricultural Implement & Stove Making Industrial Union of Australia

Archival resources

The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program

• Amalgamated Engineering Union - Records, 1880 - 1975, Z240; The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details
• Sheet Metal Working Agricultural Implement & Stove Making Industrial Union of Australia - Records, 1883 - 1959, E186; E187; The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details
• Sheet Metal Working Agricultural Implement & Stove Making Industrial Union of Australia - Records, 1911 - 1972, E222 (pt); E110; The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details
• Sheet Metal Working Agricultural Implement & Stove Making Industrial Union of Australia - Records, 1881 - 1975, T23; N33; E196 (pt); E206 (pt); E232; E245; E262 (pt); The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details
• Sheet Metal Working Agricultural Implement & Stove Making Industrial Union of Australia - Records, 1915 - 1973, E196; E206; N24 (pt); The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details
• Tom Wright Papers, 1886 - 1988, P120 & Z267; The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details

The University of Melbourne Archives

• Sheet Metal Working Agricultural Implement & Stove Making Industrial Union of Australia, Victorian Branch - Records, 1857 - 1975, 1986.0139; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details

Published resources

Online Resources

• 'Chart 15: Trade Unions - Manufacturing - Metals and Food', in Parties to the Award, 2002, http://www.atua.org.au/ptta/036.html. Details