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.

Reports, pamphlets, brochures, conference material, meeting minutes, correspondence, journals and posters relating to Left-wing politics in Brisbane with an emphasis on women's movement activities and trade union activity within Telecom Australia. Collection also includes family photographs, ephemera and trade union and Australian Labor Party membership tickets.
Bulk of records cover 1980s and early 1990s.

This collection concentrates in particular on the equal pay campaigns inside the trade union movement, and reveals the contribution of women in labour struggles in Queensland. Includes Labour history material, historical leaflets, various minutes of the Trades and Labour Council (Qld) Equal Pay Committee and A.C.T.U., news clippings, research notes and submissions, correspondence and research notes of the A.M.I.E.U. and the U.A.W.