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Collection Labor unions -- Queensland -- History
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Australasian Meat Industry Employees' Union, Queensland Branch Records

  • UQFL427
  • Collection
  • 1899-1997

Records of the Australasian Meat Industry Employees' Union (Queensland Branch) and its predecessor organisations, and arbitration court records relating to cases involving the AMIEU.

Australasian Meat Industry Employees' Union, Queensland Branch

Cecily Cameron Papers

  • UQFL439
  • Collection
  • 1889-1992

Correspondence, minutes, reports, bulletins, flyers, photographs and notes relating to the Trades and Labor Council of Queensland and its Secretary from 1952 until 1969, Alex Macdonald. Includes Labour Day flyers from the 1890s and anti-conscription flyers and posters from World War One.

It includes: material produced by the Trades and Labor Council or directly relating to TLC activities, mainly in the postwar period; TLC material and material relating to political and industrial issues in which the TLC was involved; material produced by or relating to the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), individual Australian trade unions and the international peak trade union bodies; documents and publications relating to pre-World War Two trade union history including Queensland trade union history, Australian trade union history, and international trade union history; and documents, newspapers and newspaper cuttings relating to the Communist Party of Australia and world communism, 1968-1969 which is mainly concerned with CPA congresses and CPA deliberations over the direction of the Party and world communism, particularly in relation to events in Czechoslovakia.

Cameron, Cecily, 1934-2007

Combined Unions Choir Records

  • UQFL475
  • Collection
  • 1988-2023

This collection has records relating to Combined Unions Choir performances including: administrative records, sheet music, schedules, and song lyrics. There are 564 colour photographs and 13 black and white photographs taken at Combined Unions Choir performances and events. Additional digital photographs are on three CDs and there is a folder with photocopied photographs with pencil notes identifying people. There are two VHS video cassettes, and digital video and audio recordings of their performances.

Combined Unions Choir

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

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