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Trade Union entry Australian Saddlery & Leather Workers Trades Employees Federation (ii) (1918 - 1922)

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    Chart 14: Trade Unions - Hospitality, Liqor and miscellaneous Workers
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From
1918
To
1922
Functions
Trade Union (Federal)
Reference No
120V

Summary

Originally formed in 1908 as the Australian Saddlery Trades Employees' Federation, this union has a direct lineage with one of Victoria's traditional eight-hour craft unions. By 1915 the Australian Saddlery Trades Employees' Federation had become the Australian Saddlery & Leather Workers Trades Employees' Federation. Deregistered in 1918, the Australian Saddlery & Leather Workers Trades Employees' Federation was reregistered under this name again later that year. In 1922, after members of the deregistered Australian Sail & Tent Makers' Society began joining the union it was impelled to change its name again, this time to the Australian Saddlery Leather Sail & Canvas Workers Trades Employees' Federation. In 1924 the union became the Australian Saddlery Leather Sail Canvas Tanning Leather Dressing & Allied Workers Trades Employees' Federation which lasted until 1945 when it opted for the more manageable Australian Leather & Allied Trades Employees' Federation. This union suffered from changing markets and fashions as well as the introduction of mechanisation and synthetic materials and was de-registered in 1972. Its members however, went on to enter the fold of the Federated Miscellaneous Workers' Union of Australia.

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 1918 - 1922 Australian Saddlery & Leather Workers Trades Employees Federation (ii)
       1922 - 1924 Australian Saddlery Leather Sail & Canvas Workers Trades Employees Federation
             1924 - 1945 Australian Saddlery Leather Sail Canvas Tanning Leather Dressing & Allied Workers Trades Employees Federation
                   1945 - 1972 Australian Leather & Allied Trades Employees Federation

Archival resources

The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program

  • Australian Leather & Allied Trades Employees Federation - Records, 1902 - 1966, P95; Z370(pt); Z481(pt); The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details

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Chart 14: Trade Unions - Hospitality, Liqor and miscellaneous Workers
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Bruce A. Smith

Created: 20 April 2001, Last modified: 6 August 2010