Series 03 Part 04: Mark Aarons files relating to the National Civic Council and its front organisations, 1950-1991

MLMSS 9329/Boxes 30-34
MLOH 777

series

1950-1991

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Nonmusical Sound Recordings

1114905

0.75 metres of textual material (5 boxes), some folders include photographs

Series 03 contains papers relating to the National Civic Council, its influences and activities in trade unions and its operation of front organisations. The files were collected in the period 1977-1992 in a series of investigations for the ABC. They cover material originally held by former senior members of the NCC, the unions it controlled and includes documents from a number of NCC-controlled or influenced front organisations.

BOXES 30-34 contain files collected by Mark Aarons

BOX 30
Folder 1
‘Correspondence of W. A. Henderson re communist influence in the Federated Clerks’ Union’, being photocopied correspondence of A. W. Fadden (Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer) with W. A. Henderson, 1950, obtained from Australian Archives, ACT Regional Office

Folder 2
‘Research material on international unionism collected in Geneva by Andrew Goodman, June-July 1977

Folder 3
‘Background Briefing program, 12 December 1982’, 1982-1983 including background notes, research material and transcript of program

Folder 4
‘NCC Trade Union Analysis’, 1975-1977, being photocopies mainly relating to trade unions in Tasmania

Folder 5
‘Tasmania’, being photocopy of ‘Tasmanian Industrial Report and Review –
July 1974’ by R. Mimmo

Folder 6
‘Barry Egan Interview’, including notes and research material for interview with Barry Egan (Shop, Distributive & Allied Employees’ Association) on 25 Jan. 1980

Folder 7
‘SDA (Shopping Assistants)’, 1974-1976

Folder 8
‘Martin Shanahan’, 1975-1977

Folder 9
‘Letters and media reports on Santamaria’, 1975-1981, being photocopies and newscuttings

Folder 10
‘Judgement in court case between Santamaria et al and NCC dissidents, 21 October 1982’, being photocopy

Folder 11
‘Miscellaneous papers, including on the NCC split’, 1975-1983

Folder 12
‘NCC Split’, 1980-1982, being mainly newscuttings, photocopies and printed material

Folder 13
‘Women Who Want to Be Women (Babette Francis)’, 1975-1982, being photocopies

Folder 14
‘Rod Wise notes’, being one-page photocopy

Folder 15
‘Barrie Unsworth’, 1980-1982, being two articles on Barrie Unsworth (Secretary, NSW Labor Council) from The National Times

Folder 16
‘Jack Baker’, 1975-1977, relating to J. S. F. (John Simms Fleming) Baker, retired General Secretary of the Australian Union of Postal Clerks and Telegraphists, and including photocopies of his nine submissions to the Royal Commission on Intelligence and Security, 1975

Folder 17
‘Postal Workers’, being issues of Communication Workers News, Aug. 1981, and Boomerang: Australia’s Communication Future 1981 (Communication Workers Information Centre, Trades Hall, Sydney) including article on the CIA in the APTU {Australian Postal Telecommunications Union]

Folder 18
‘Right wing in Western Australia’, 1979-1982, being mainly photocopied documents, letters and newscuttings, and issue of Tribune, 3 Dec. 1980

BOX 31
Folder 1
‘Brian Harradine’, 1968-1975, being photocopied newscuttings and documents

Folder 2
‘John Grenville Review of Santamaria’s Against the Tide’, 1981, relating to review for ABC radio program Doubletake, including corrected transcript by Malcolm Long and Mark Aarons

Folder 3
‘Tuesday Despatch Program – re-affilition of NCC unions to the ALP’, relating to ABC radio program, Tuesday Despatch No. 85/16, 30 Apr. 1985


Folder 4
‘Re-affiliation of NCC unions to the ALP’, 1984-1985, being photocopied documents relating to Victorian ALP Committee of Ten Inquiring into Applications for Affiliation from Four Trade Unions, 1984

Folder 5
‘NCC – 40th Anniversary Celebration’, 1981-1982, being newscuttings

Folder 6
‘The Movement into the 80s (Santamaria Paper)’, 1981, being photocopy of ‘The Movement into the Eighties. A Study Paper’ by B. A. Santamaria (Special 40th Anniversary Edition

Folder 7
‘NCC – clippings and miscellaneous papers’, 1972-1977, being photocopied documents and newscuttings

Folder 8
‘FIET [International Federation of Commercial, Clerical and Technical Employees]’, 1972-1977, including Multinational Enterprises in Asia / rapporteur Barry Egan. Sydney : Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees’ Association [197-]

Folder 9
‘FIET’, 1973-1974, being photocopied correspondence and documents of John Grenville relating to FCUA

Folder 10
‘NCC clippings’, 1976-1991

Folder 11
‘Queensland Union Inquiry’, 1990

Folder 12
‘Queensland Catholics’, being two articles on Queensland’s Catholic establishment by Adrian McGregor from The National Times, May 1980

BOX 32
Folder 1
‘Julian Punch’, being newscutting from The National Times, 6-12 Sept. 1981 relating to former Catholic priest’s encounter with the NCC

Folder 2
‘Peace With Freedom’, being photocopied pages from National U, 26 Apr. 1972 relating to pro-Vietnam War group linked to the NCC

Folder 3
‘Patterns of Deceit’, being newscutting from The Age, 25 Apr. 1981 relating to alleged infiltration of Victorian ALP by the NCC

Folder 4
‘NCC – Structures and Personalities’, 1972-1977, being mainly photocopied documents

Folder 5
‘NCC – Fighting Fund’, being appeal letter, Aug. 1978

Folder 6
‘DLP & NCC’, 1971-1974, being photocopied articles

Folder 7
‘NCC Membership Cards’, being photocopies

Folder 8
‘SDA File on the NCC’, 1973-1978

Folder 9
‘National Catholic Rural Movement – 1976 Minutes’, being photocopy of National Executive meting, 26 Oct. 1976

Folder 10
‘Miscellaneous Workers’ Union and NCC’, 1970-1979, being mainly photocopied documents

Folder 11
‘Imlach and Watling’, 1974-1977, including transcript of proceedings of Rules Committee versus Imlach and Watling, Hobart, 7-9 Sept. 1977, published by Australian Labor Party (Tasmanian Branch), ruling on the ineligibility of Robert Watling and Peter Imlach to be members of the ALP after their alleged membership of the NCC

BOX 33
Folder 1
‘Interview with John Grenville, 1977 – Transcript’, being photocopy of unproofed draft of interview

Folder 2
‘John Forrester’, 1976-1977, being photocopied printed material

Folder 3
‘NCC & FCU’, 1973-1977, being mainly photocopied documents

Folder 4
‘NCC & Administrative & Clerical Officers’ Association (ACOA)’, 1979-1982, being mainly issues of Alternative Viewpoint, published by ACOA Reform Group

Folder 5
‘Broadcaster – NCC newsletter in the ABC’, 1979, being issues, no. 1, January; no. 2 February; and no. 10 [October 1979]

Folder 6
‘NCC & ABC Staff Union’, 1979-1980

Folder 7
‘NCC & AUS [Australian Union of Students]’, 1978-1984, being photocopied documents

Folder 8
‘NCC – Australia Day Weekend’, 1977, 1980, mainly relating to National Civic Council Industrial Conference, Belloc House, Kew, Vic.

Folder 9
‘NCC & ALP’, 1980-1981

Folder 10
‘Bob Browning’, 1980-1983, being photocopied documents and newscuttings mainly relating to former ASIO agent Bob Browning and the Washington-based Institute of Policy Studies

Folder 11
‘NCC & Australian Workers’ Union (AWU)’, 1977, being photocopied documents relating to the NCC infiltration of Queensland trade unions

Folder 12
‘NCC & Metal Workers’ Union (AMWSU), 1979-1982, being newscuttings

Folder 13
‘Maynes on Broadband program’, 1977, including photocopied typescript, ‘Notes on Broadband’ Broadcasts on A.B.C.’ by J. P. Maynes (Federal President, FCUA), 3 June 1977

Folder 14
‘John Cotter letter re NCC’, 3 Aug. 1981, being photocopied letter

Folder 15
‘John Cowburn’, being two photocopied typescript letters from John Cowburn SJ, 1989, being notes on The Movement, NCC and the novel Power without Glory by Frank Hardy

Folder 16
‘NCC – Industrial Research Organisation’, 1982

Folder 17
‘Bob Holt – 1958/59 Budget Speech’, being photocopied speech by R. W Holt, MP (Darebin) on Budget 1958-59 from the Parliamentary Debates, 21 Aug. 1958

Folder 18
‘Gerard Henderson – on Sydney-Melbourne Church’, being photocopied chapter on Religion by Gerard Henderson from The Sydney-Melbourne Book (1986) edited by Jim Davidson

Folder 19
‘The Social Studies Movement – 1956 Report’, being photocopies

BOX 34
Folder 1
‘ITS Grants’, 1976

Folder 2
‘ITF [International Transport Federation]’, 1962-1975, being photocopied documents and issue of International Transport Workers’ Journal, vol. XXIII nos 7-8, July-Aug. 1963

Folder 3
‘IFPCW [International Federation of Petroleum and Chemical Workers], 1968-1969, being photocopied documents

Folder 4
‘Harvard Trade Union Program’, including letter from Derek Holden to Laurie Aarons, 3 Aug. 1984, with enclosures, relating to the Program; photocopied documents relating to Labour Management Studies Program at Macquarie University, 1982; and Harvard University Trade Union Program, February-May, 1968 : Report by Joe S. Thompson

Folder 5
‘NCC – Miscellaneous’, 1967-1982, including newscuttings and photocopied documents

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Box listings compiled by Mark Aarons and amplified by Library staff