Correspondence, financial records and accounts of TLC, ALP and Trades Hall,Toowoomba. Diaries, speakers' notes, minutes, bulletins/periodicals, receipts, programmes, pamphlets, registrations, publications, decisions, press releases and Labour Day records.

Federal, state and local minutes, correspondence, rules, awards, submissions and decisions. Trade Union journals. Photographs. Miscellaneous. Federal and State circulars. Union membership lists and Queensland industry subject files (Construction, dairy, earthmoving, fertilizer, meat, oil, paper & pulp, sugar, timber, waterfront & mining industries)

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).

This ephemera collection contains reports, promotional material, submissions, circulars, publicity leaflets, correspondence and information for members of the council

This Bulletin is from March 1961 and reports on the wage rates and working conditions of Aboriginal Australian workers in the cattle industry, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia and South Australia.

Prepared by a member of the Council for Aboriginal Rights (Victoria) on 16 August 1963, it reports that the Queensland Government is holding close on one million pounds of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders wages. Signed by Pauline Pickford, secretary for the Council.