Australian Society for the Study of Labour History. Sydney Branch records

MLMSS 9317

fonds

approximately 1942-2010

Textual Records, Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Ephemera

910049

Digitised

1.36 metres of textual material (8 boxes)

The Australian Society for the Study of Labour History was founded in 1961. Its aims are to encourage teaching and research in labour history, and preservation of the records of working people and the labour movement.

BOX 1
Minute book, 3 May 1983 – 18 Apr. 1997
Annual General Meeting minutes, including presidents’ and secretaries’ reports, 1984-1996
Minute book, 27 Mar. 1998 – 5 Dec. 2001
Minutes of the inaugural meeting, 26 Apr. 1983
Folder of minutes not included in minutes books, 1999-2001

BOX 2
Membership records including subscriptions, membership renewals and membership lists, 1983-2004

BOX 3
Folder labelled ‘Sydney Branch papers’ containing correspondence, circulars, 1984-1988
Folders of records (2) including correspondence, minutes of meetings, circulars, draft Constitution etc., 1965-1968; 1967-1971
Folder of records relating to Frank Stevens on Indigenous employment and rights, 1968-1969
Folders of records (12) containing correspondence, minutes of meetings, flyers, notes, newscuttings, etc. Includes material relating to Labour Day Oration, 1987; publicity concerning talks and addresses; oral history; W. J. McKell seminar, 1984; financial assistance and grants; Workers’ Educational Association of New South Wales; 1983-1992

BOX 4
Folders of records (25) containing correspondence, minutes of meetings, flyers, notes, newscuttings, etc. Includes material concerning fundraising for a new Branch recorder; ‘Amongst Equals’ film; grant applications; labour history; correspondence with members; correspondence with Melbourne Branch; 1983-1996

BOX 5
Folders of records (9) containing general correspondence, flyers, notes, newscuttings etc., concerning conferences, seminars, addresses, insurance, meetings; 1997-2005

BOX 6
Printed material:
‘Labour History News’: newsletter of the Sydney Branch, Sept. 2000 – July 2004
Sydney Branch membership cards, n.d.
‘Hummer: publication of the Sydney Branch of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, 1986-2010 [incomplete]
‘The great labour movement split in New South Wales: inside stories’: edited by Bradon Ellem, 1994
‘A turbulent decade: social protest movements and the Labour movement, 1965-1975’: edited by Beverley Symons and Rowan Cahill, 2005
'Communism in Australia: a supplementary resource bibliography, c. 1994-2001’: compiled by Beverley Symons; with the assistance of Stuart Macintyre, 2002
‘The writings of Norman Jeffery’: edited and introduced by Andrew Moore, 1989

BOX 7
Folders of records (10) relating to conferences, including correspondence, notes, program, leaflets, flyers, registrations, transcripts of speeches. Includes material relating to:
‘Conference on Social Protest Movements and the Labour Movement, 1965-75’, 22-23 Sept. 2001; ‘1985 Annual Conference’
‘Remembering the Dismissal’, 11 Nov. 1995
‘On the Waterfront. Union Gains and Struggles, 1890-1998’, 20 Feb. 1999
‘Edna Ryan, Women’s Activism and the Australian Labour Movement: a Celebration’, 2 Aug. 1997
‘One-day Forum: ‘Immigration, Racism and the Labour Movement, 19 Sept, 1999
‘Lithgow Labour History Tour’, 12 Nov. 2000

BOX 8
Folder of miscellaneous correspondence, notes, newscuttings etc. 1968-2002
Folder of miscellaneous material including leaflets, flyers, booklets, photocopies of poems, May Day badge 1993, conference programs etc., ca. 1985-2005
Folder containing transcript of speech by Frank Bollins, n.d.
Spiral bound copy of ‘A Little Journey to Macdonnell House’, compiled by Chrissy Fletcher, Dec. 2002
Spiral bound copy of ‘A Hindsight view: why many of us became Communists and why the ideological conflict continues’ by Warren Davenport Keats, [2009]
‘Lock out the landlords : Australian eviction resistance 1929-1936’ written and researched by Iain McIntyre. Parkville, Vic. : Homebrew Books, 2008.
‘May Day in Australia’ by Len Fox. [Sydney : Sydney May Day Committee, 1966]
‘Australia's guilty men and their conspiracy against the Labor Government’, Len Fox. Sydney : State Labor Party, [1943] (Sydney : Consolidated Press)
‘Coal for the engines of war’, by Len Fox. Sydney: The Worker Trustees, 1942?
‘The strange story of the Eureka flag’ by Len Fox. Darlinghurst, NSW: Len Fox, 1963.
‘Gumleaves and bamboo: poems of Australia and Asia’. [Waverley, N.S.W.] : Len Fox, [1959].
‘E. Phillips Fox and his family’ by Len Fox. Potts Point, N.S.W.: L. Fox, 1985.
‘May Day: 100 years of struggle’ [corrolated by] Len Fox and Jenny Hickman for the Sydney May Day Committee. Sydney : Sydney May Day Committee, [1969?]
‘Radical Historians’ newsletter, 1993
‘The neglected works of Oscar Zeet’, foreword by Denis Kevins, 1998
‘Back in the beginning of things’, Dave McNeill. Singleton, N.S.W. : Toiler Editions, 2002
'Picket line dispatches : from the Joy Mining Machinery Dispute, 2000' by Rowan Cahill. Bowral, N.S.W. : Bull Ant Press, 2002.
Hard manual labour : its cause and cure : & selected poems', Josiah Cocking. Singleton, N.S.W. : Toiler Editions, 2003.

SOUND RECORDINGS (Call No.: MLOH 748):
Series 01: Australian Society for the Study of Labour History sound recordings

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