Trade Union entry Sheet Metal Working Agricultural Implement & Stove Making Industrial Union of Australia (1945 - 1972)

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 its name 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

 1881 - 1902 Tinsmiths & Sheet Iron Workers Trade Society
       1902 - 1910 New South Wales Amalgamated Tinsmiths Sheet Iron Workers & Meter Makers Trade Society
             1883 - 1910 United Tinsmiths Ironworkers and Japanners Society of Victoria
             c. 1903 - 1911 United Tinsmiths & Sheet Metal Workers Society of Victoria
             1910 - 1916 New South Wales Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers Society
                   1911 - 1913 Amalgamated Tinsmiths Sheet Metal Workers Cannister Makers Gas Meter Makers & Assistants Union
                   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

Archival resources

Archives Rare Books and Special Collections Unit, Auchmuty Library, University of Newcastle

• Sheet Metal Workers Union - Records, 1943 - 1972, A5134-A5136, A5144-A5147 & B5623-B5624; Archives Rare Books and Special Collections Unit, Auchmuty Library, University of Newcastle. Details

National Library of Australia Oral History Collection

• Jack Heffernan interviewed by Richard Raxworthy in the Labor Council of New South Wales oral history project, 1988, ORAL TRC 1948/38; National Library of Australia Oral History Collection. Details

The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program

• Amalgamated Engineering Union - Records, 1911 - 1972, Z161; The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details
• Amalgamated Engineering Union - Records, 1881 - 1983, N131; Z446; The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details
• 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, 1913 - 1972, E220 (pt); 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, 1926 - 1978, N33; 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 - Records, 1936 - 1972, 1987.0119; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
• Sheet Metal Working Agricultural Implement & Stove Making Industrial Union of Australia, Victorian Branch - Records, 1885 - c. 1972, 1995.0093; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
• 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

Books

• Tsokhas, Kosmas, Work practices and sheet metal workers, 1929-1970, Australian National University, Canberra, 1988. Details

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