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).

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.

Invitations, song lyrics, meeting notices.

Copy of advertisement for annual meeting held 8th Dec. 1890. Lists agenda. Authorised by W. Kewley, Secretary.

Flyers, bulletins and newspaper cuttings relating to industrial relations in the Brisbane shipyards from 1969 to 1974.

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).