Printing and Kindred Industries Union (Australia). Western Australian Branch.

This union was formed in 1888 as the Western Australian Typographical Society. It was reorganised in 1889 and in 1902 changed its name to the Western Australian Typographical Industrial Union of Workers, which became a branch of the P.I.E.U.A. in 1916. In June 1921 it absorbed the Goldfields Typographical Union, the W.A. Branch of the Bookbinders' and Paper Rulers' Union and the Metropolitan Female Printing Employees' Union of Workers of Western Australia. In 1931 it left the federal body and was known as the Printing Industry Employees' Union of Western Australia until it re-affiliated in September 1938. The Newspaper Industry Union of Workers was formed in 1932 by a section of newspaper employees in Perth, and amalgamated with the Printing Industry Employees' Union of Australia on 28 November 1938.