Italian Federation of Emigrant Workers and Their Families (Australia). New South Wales Branch - Records, 1947, 1968-1986

MLMSS 5288 ADD-ON 1955
MLOH 83

fonds

1947, 1968-1986

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Clippings, Photographs

423533

2.21 metres of textual material and graphic material (13 boxes)
1 sound cassette

FILEF (Federazione Italiana Lavoratori Emigrati e Famiglie/Italian Federation of Migrant Workers and their families), affiliated to its parent body in Rome, was established in Leichhardt, Sydney in 1972. It provides welfare assistance and social and cultural activities for Italian migrants. Since 1974 FILEF has published "Nuovo Paese", a fortnightly newspaper expressing the workers' viewpoint

1. Correspondence, 1973-1985

2. Subject files with photographs relating to FILEF activities and congresses; grant applications; the publication and distribution of "Nuovo Paese"; the teaching of Italian and other community languages in state schools; trade union liaison; immigration law reform; and the 1977 deportation as an illegal immigrant of Ignazio Salemi, FILEF National Co-ordinator

3. Audiotape of proceedings of a public meeting on Medicare, Leichhardt Town Hall, 21 July 1983 (located at MLOH 83/1)

Italians in New South Wales : a guide to archives in the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales / compiled by James Andrighetti. Sydney : State Library of NSW Press, 1995

Detailed list available (17 p.)