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Joe Harris Papers

  • UQFL106
  • Collection
  • 1912-1994.

Lectures, typescripts, newspaper cuttings and papers relating to the Australian Labor Party, trade unionism and the anti-Vietnam War movement in the 1960s and 1970s.

Harris, W. J. H., 1922-2002

Diary of shearer's strike, 1891

  • F337
  • Item
  • 1891

One notebook, containing a diary covering events in Hughenden from March to July of 1891.
Accompanied by a note about the Wyatt diary by Richard Fotheringham (1 leaf; handwritten).
Also accompanied by a transcript of the diary written by Alan Anderson circa 1985 (26 l., 33 cm, handwritten) and a typescript copy of the transcript with pencil annotations made by Fryer Library staff (12 l., 30 cm).

Wyatt, Charles Thomas, 1871-1902

Diary, 1891

  • F2
  • Item
  • 1891

Concerns police routine in Queensland; many references to people and properties in country districts and to Shearers' Strike activities.
Originally written in Lett's nonpareil pocket diary.

Ahern, Police Sergeant

Railway Maintenance Employess Association Records

  • UQFL179
  • Collection
  • 1914-1986.

Includes minutes of meetings, agenda papers, annual balance sheets, reports to conferences and minute books.

Railway Maintenance Employees Association

Trades and Labor Council of Queensland Records

  • UQFL118
  • Collection
  • 1894-

The collection reflects not only the emergence of the central organising body of the Trades and Labor Council of Queensland, achieved in 1947, but the often radical and pioneering nature of the Queensland labour movement itself. This is especially to be seen in documents relating to the 1890s shearers' strikes, the Cosme Settlement, the 1912 tramway strike, the 1946/48 strikes and those of the 1960s. Includes minutes (1922-1984), reports, agenda and decisions, financial records, correspondence, subject files, newspaper clippings, and photographs.
Papers relate to : industrial disputes, Cosme colony, the Eight Hour Day Movement, Communist Party of Australia (Queensland) and Australian Labor Party, Workers' Educational Association, Australian Labor Day Committee, Queensland Industrial Court, Trade Union congresses, and Australian Council of Trade Unions.
Includes issues of The Organiser (1937-1939) and Cosme Monthly (1894-1904).

Trades and Labor Council of Queensland

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