Records. 1952-1976.

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Records. 1952-1976.

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Working files of North Queensland-based union organiser Fred Thompson. The files relate to industrial matters in Queensland and include material of major conferences and industrial disputes that occured during the period. The records include a number of files relating to Aborigines, c.1958-1975 including: material on the Interracial Seminar, Townsville, 1967; the Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders Advancement League; Weipa; Aboriginal and Islander human rights and living conditions; conference papers; and papers on Australian Constitutional reform. Other major file groupings include papers on: the Australian Council of Trade Unions; union administration; Comalco; demarcation; union education; the basic wage; Mary Kathleen Uranium Ltd; the Metal Trades Federation; Mount Isa Mines and Copper Refinery; the Northern Territory; penal powers; opposition to the Vietnam War and conscription ; Queensland Nickel; the Utah Mining Corporation; workers compensation; railways; and the sugar industry.

6 m. (30 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7066616

Libraries Australia

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Metal Trades Federation of Unions (Australia)

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On 14-16 June 1943, 7 unions (Amalgamated Engineering Union, Australasian Society of Engineers, Blacksmiths' Society Boilermakers' Society, the Federated Ironworkers Association, Federated Moulders' (Metals) Union and the Sheet Metal Workers' Union) held a conference and decided to form the Metal Trades Federation and to ask the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen's Association to become a member. The governing body of the Federation is a council of 2 representatives from each of the unions com...

Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders Advancement League.

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Comalco Limited

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Australian Council of Trade Unions

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The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) was formed in 1927 and is the central governing body of the organised trade union movement in Australia. Included in this collection are the records of the ACTU predecessor body, the Commonwealth Council of Federated Unions, established in 1923. From the description of Records [manuscript]. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225787503 The Australian Council of Trade Unions arose from an All-Australian Trade Union Congress...

Queensland Nickel Pty. Ltd.

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Thompson, Frederick R.

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Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights' Union (Australia)

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In 1968 the Amalgamated Engineering Union Australian Section achieved autonomy from its English parent. In 1972 the Amalgamated Engineering Union (Australia) amalgamated with the Boilermakers' and Blacksmiths' Society of Australia and the Sheet Metal Working, Agricultural Implement and Stovemaking Industrial Union of Australia to form the Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union (Australia). In 1976 this union amalgamated with the Federated Shipwrights and Ship Constructors' Association to form the Amal...

Mary Kathleen Uranium Limited.

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