MS 8076
Guide to the Collected Papers of Andrew Reeves



Summary

Collector: Reeves, Andrew
Title:  Collected papers of Andrew Reeves
Date range: 1857-1999 (bulk 1900-99)
Reference number:  MS 8076
Extent:  7.98 m (57 boxes) + 10 folio packages


Administrative Information

Access

Available for reference

Provenance

The collection was partly purchased and partly donated to the Library by Andrew Reeves under the Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme.  The collection was received in nine instalments between 1987 and 2001.


Scope and Content

Papers collected by Andrew Reeves, primarily relating to the trade union movement, the Australian Labor Party, the Communist Party of Australia and left wing political issues.  There are also papers relating to student political activities on the University of Melbourne, Monash and La Trobe University campuses; the anti-Vietnam War movement; the Socialist Party of Australia; the League of Nations International Labour Conference; the Association of Architects, Surveyors, Engineers and Draughtsmen of Australia and the co-operative movement.  Papers of Phillip Bain collected by Andrew Reeves are also contained in the papers.

The papers include broadsheets, pamphlets, handbills, press cuttings, original trade union records, reports, correspondence, letterbooks, minutes, ledgers, conference papers, speeches, articles, publications, banners, photographs, posters and other papers.

Organisation

Series 1-6 were grouped by Reeves in his listing of the 1987 consignments.  Other series were added by Library staff for subsequent consignments.

Arrangement

Material in the early consignments (1987) were mostly arranged by Reeve in subject files.  Later consignments were comprised mainly of loose paper and were arranged by Library staff. 

Related Materials

Personal Papers of Andrew Reeves are held at MS 9554.

Papers of Andrew Reeves’ father, John Reeves are held at MS 9475.

Publications were separated from the collection at the time of processing and integrated into the Library’s book and serial stacks.  Films and videos from the collection were sent to Screensound Australia and AIATSIS.


Biographical Note

Andrew Paul Reeves was born on 10 April 1952 in Kew, Victoria.  He was educated at Camberwell High School (Melbourne) and the University of Melbourne (1970-73) where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Hons), majoring in history.  In 1974-75 Reeves attended La Trobe University where he graduated with a Master of Arts in 1976.  During this time he assembled a large collection of pamphlets and broadsheets. 

In 1976-83 Reeves worked as an archivist at the University of Melbourne Archives.  During his employment with the Archives he was principally responsible for the development of the trade union and labour movement collection.  He was also involved with curating exhibitions on the eight hours day and curated ‘Peace –Progress-Amity: trade union banners and labor celebration’, a joint exhibition with the State Library of Victoria and University of Melbourne Archives.

After leaving the Archives in 1983, Reeves wrote a commissioned history of the Victorian Trades Hall Council, 1856-1966.  He later worked at the National Museum of Australia (1984-86), as Director and Deputy Director of the Division of Human Studies at the Museum of Victoria (1986-92) and as Director of the Western Australian Museum (1993-97).

Reeves was a member of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History and  the Welsh Labour History Society.

Publications

‘Eight hours day and labour celebration’, catalogue for Objects, documents and pictures to reflect upon exhibition, University of Melbourne, 1978

‘The five month strike ‘ and ‘The 1949 defeat’, chapters in John M. Coghlan (ed) The state coal mine and Wonthaggi (1979)

‘Damned Scotsmen! British migrants and the Australian Coal Industry 1919-1949’, chapter in First Commonwealth conference of Labor histories (1983)

Another day another dollar: working lives in Australian history (Carlton: McCulloch Publishing, 1988)

Margaret Anderson, Julia Clark, Andrew Reeves When Australia was a woman: images of a nation (Perth, W.A. : Western Australian Museum, 1998)


Series List

Series      Title

1          Student politics, 1970-75

2          Other political campaigns, 1899-1999 (bulk 1970-75)

3          International issues, 1948-92

4          Maoism, 1970-76

5          Trotskyism, c1930-75

6          Vietnam, anti-war, draft resistance, 1966-74

7          Trade unions, 1857-1999

8          Phillip Bain Papers, 1919-86 (bulk 1972-86)

9          Communist Party of Australia, 1919-88

10        Australian Labor Party, 1914-93

11        Socialist Party of Australia, 1931-48

12         League of Nations International Labour Conference, 1919-25

13         Association of Architects, Surveyors, Engineers and Draughtsmen of Australia, 1963-80

14         Co-operatives, 1896-1995

15         Photographs, 1888-c1978

16         Posters

17         Other collected papers, 1887-1997


Series Description

Series 1                       Student politics, 1970-75

The papers relate to the period 1970-75 and were assembled while Reeves while a student at the University of Melbourne.  See also series 8 for La Trobe University student papers collected by Phillip Bain and series 16 for student posters.

Folder

1          Anarchism

2          University of Melbourne- Democratic control and university reform, 1971-72

3          University of Melbourne- Exclusion

4          University of Melbourne- Labor Club, ISKRA

5          University of Melbourne- Right-wing student broadsheets

6          University of Melbourne Socialist Club

7          University of Melbourne- Student activism

8-9       University of Melbourne- Student broadsheets (i)

10        Various University of Melbourne student broadsheets, 1970-73

11-12   Students for a Democratic Society – later Radical Action Movement (i)

13-14   Students for a Democratic Society – later Radical Action Movement – Catch 22, 1970-74

15-16   Universities- Australian Union of Students - education reform, cultural journals

17        The vulgar Marxist

Series 2           Other political campaigns, 1899-1999 (bulk 1970-75)

The bulk of the series contains ephemera concerning University of Melbourne campus political campaigns.  There are also two earlier and later folders of collected May Day material.

Folder

1-2       Anti-communist publications, 1971-73

3          Anti-French nuclear testing, 1974

4          Anti-Nazi agitation, 1972-74

5          Anti-Omega, n.d.

6          Anti-Springbok tours, 1970-71

7          Anti-US bases, 1973

8          A.L.P. (Vic.), 1972-74

9          Neil Collingburn, n.d.

10-11   Environmentalism, 1972-75

12        Gay liberation, n.d.

13        May Day, 1899-1932

14        May Day, 1970

15        May Day, 1971

16        May Day, 1972

17        May Day, 1973

18        May Day, 1974

19        May Day, 1975

20        May Day, 1977

21        May Day, 1978-99

22        July 4th demonstration, n.d.

23        Pensioners, n.d.

24        Protect Victoria Market, n.d.

25        Public health, 1973

26        Secondary students political activism, 1968-73

27        Unemployed, n.d.

28        Uranium and nuclear disarmament, 1986-88

29-30   Women’s liberation, 1973

31        Young Labor Association, Victoria, University of Melbourne A.L.P. Club, 1970-74

Series 3                       International issues, 1948-92

Publications and ephemera concerning international political issues, protests and campaigns.

See also series 16 for posters on international issues.

Folder

1          Afghanistan, n.d.

2          Africa, 1971-89

3          Bangladesh, 1971

4          Britain, 1948

5          Chile, n.d.

6          China/Asia, 1932-54

7          Croatia, 1972

8          East Timor, 1977-91

9          Germany, 1974

10        Greece, 1975

11        Indonesia, 1952

12        Ireland, 1973-75

13        Iran, n.d.

14-15   Palestine, 1971-75

16        Papua New Guinea, n.d.

17        Spain, 1972-75

18        Other international, 1972-92

Series 4                       Maoism, 1970-76

The series comprises Monash and La Trobe University broadsheets and publications.

Folder

1          Maoism – Australian-China Society, 1973-74

2          Maoism – Communist Party of Australia (Marxist Leninist), 1974

3          Maoism – Independence voice, 1974-76

4-5       Maoism at Monash, La Trobe Universities, 1973-75

6-7       Maoism – Worker Student Alliance, 1970-73

Series 5                       Trotskyism, c.1930-75

Folder

1          Trotskyism – Australasian Spartacist, 1973-75

2          Trotskyism – ban on ligue Comministe (France), n.d.

3          Trotskyism – Communist League, 1974

4          Trotskyism – Hard lines, 1973-74

5          Trotskyism – Socialist Labour League, Socialist perspective, Socialist Workers Action Group, 1974

6-8       Trotskyism – Socialist Youth Alliance (later: Socialist Workers Party), 1971-74

9          Trotskyism – Workers’ Party of Australia, Leninist League of Victoria, 1930s

10        Tocsin, 1971

Series 6                       Vietnam, anti-war, draft resistance, 1966-74

Cuttings, articles, leaflets and publications relating to the Vietnam War.

See also series 16 for posters on the Vietnam War.

Folder

1-2       Anti-conscription, 1969-72

3-6       Draft resistance, 1970-72

7-8       General anti-war material, 1967-73

9-10     Vietnam Moratorium, May 1970

11        Vietnam Moratorium, September 1970

12        Vietnam Moratorium, April/June 1971

13        Vietnam Moratorium, December 1971, April 1972, March 1974

14        American cuttings and anti-war material, 1966-67 including a peace march apron.

Series 7                       Trade unions, 1857-1999

The series has been arranged into four subseries: (1) alphabetical files relating mainly to individual trade unions and trade union organisations, (2) loose papers sorted into geographic localities, (3) miscellaneous loose papers arranged chronologically and (4) papers of A.C. Williams. 

Most of the series comprises printed or published material, including trade union rules, industrial agreements, membership books, programs of events, trade union manuals, workers’ tickets, newspaper cuttings, voting slips, an audio tape, pamphlets, leaflets and other trade union ephemera. 

Some files in sub-series 1 also include original trade union records, and in most cases these have been indicated in the file descriptions.  There are also some original records scattered within the geographical and chronological sequences (subseries 2 and 3).

See also series 15 for trade union photographs and series16 for trade union posters.

Subseries 1     Alphabetical sequence, 1877-1997

Folder

1-4       Amalgamated Metal Workers’ Union, 1972-74 (4 files). 

Includes a painted banner for ‘Labor Day for retired workers’

5          Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners, 1916-46

                        Proposition form, circular and entrance book

6          Australasian Coal and Shale Employees’ Federation (Western District), 1928

                        Unemployment relief registers

7-10     Australasian Meat Industry Employees’ Union (Queensland Branch), 1944-75

                        Ballot papers, picnic programs, photographs and other papers

11        Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) including ACTU leaflets (1939), ACTU Congress papers (1945) and material relating to the 1927 and 1932 All-Australian Trade Union Congress.

12-13   ACTU Congress papers, 1945 ( 2 files)

14        ACTU circulars and minutes, 1949

15        ACTU, 1955-66

16        ACTU, 1981-1990s

17-20   Australian Railways Union leaflets, publications, audio tape and other papers, 1932-86 (4 files)

21-22   Australian Theatrical and Amusement Employees Association, 1945-78

23        Australian Tramway and Motor Omnibus Employees Association, 1940-62

24        Australian Workers’ Union – Amalgamated Workers’ Union tickets, 1892-1903; AWU tickets and levies (1906-31) and correspondence, reports and other papers, 1923-44

25        AWU- anti Communist Party of Australia texts (late 1930s), conference papers, an industrial agreement with Broken Hill Associated Smelters (1938-39) and papers of the F.G. Baxter Case (WA, 1930-56).

26        AWU- correspondence and other papers including papers relating to the SA pastoral workers’ dispute (1943-50)

27        AWU- Workers’ tickets (1951-74) and other papers, 1963-91

28-29   AWU, 1992 including WA election campaign buttons, t-shirt and rally leaflets.

30-38   Ballarat Eight Hours Anniversary Committee, 1883-1935 (9 files)

                        Includes ledgers, minute books and correspondence

39        Barrier Ranges Engine Drivers’ & Firemen’s Association

40-42   Builders Labourers’ Federation (both Gallagher and Mundey factions), 1973-87 (3 files)

43        Building Workers’ Industrial Union of Australia State Conference agenda, 1947

44        BWIU- correspondence of the Vice President, H.T. Scattergood, 1946-48

45        BWIU conference papers, 1946-51

46-48   BWIU papers including Federal Conference papers, 1951-59

49-50   BWIU, 1960-69

51-52   BWIU, 1970-87 and undated papers

53-54   Building Workers’ Industrial Union of Australia (Queensland Branch), 1947-64

55        Clerks’ Union Reform Group – Clerk & dagger, 1973-74

56        Combined Union Action, n.d.

56        Friendly Trade Society of Ironmoulders annual reports, 1890-97

57        Maritime Unionists Socialist Activities Association, 1984-85

58        Miners’ Federation of Australia, 1931-54

59        National Union of Railwaymen, [1930s]

60-61   Operative Painters and Decorators’ Union of Australia, 1903-60

                        Correspondence and election material

62        Plumbers and Gasfitters Employees’ Union, 1915-46

                        Includes correspondence

63        Trades and Labour Council of Queensland, 1946-67

64        TLCQ- Aboriginal rights, 1962-80

65        TLCQ- Communist Party of Australia (North Queensland), 1961-64

66        TLCQ- Mt Isa mines lock out, 1961-65

67        TLCQ- North Queensland regional trade union conferences, 1957-66

68-69   TLCQ- North Queensland Trade Union Rank & File Convention for Security (Townsville, 28-29 Nov. 1953

70        TLCQ- Peace (including Townsville Peace Committee for International Co-operation and Disarmament, 1963-65

71        TLCQ- ‘The case for £2 increase to the Queensland basic wage…’, hearing in the Industrial court of Queensland, 22 Mar. 1954

72        United Furniture Trades Industrial Union of Workers, 1929.  Leadlight Designers’ award.  Transcript of notes of proceedings before the Industrial Board, Perth, WA.

73        Vehicle Builders’ Union, 1957-69

74        Victorian Operative Bricklayers’ Society (No. 3 Branch, Ballarat) letterbook, 1889-1893.

75        Victorian Trades Hall Council- microfilm of minute books, 1877-1893

76        Victorian Trades Hall Council, 1904-37

77        Victorian Trades Hall Council Labor Papers Committee minutes, 1921-23

78        Victorian Trades Hall Council, 1940s

79        Victorian Trades Hall Council, 1950s

80-84   Victorian Trades Hall Council- Clothing and Allied Trades Union correspondence and other records, 1966-73 relating to the Victorian Trades Hall Council dispute with 26 rebel unions

85        Victorian Trades Hall Council- Australian Timber Workers’ Union, 1967-70

86        Melbourne Trades Hall Council split, 1967; Exposé of right wing in the 1963-64 Melbourne Trades Hall Council dispute; Equal pay, 1965-69

87        Victorian Trades Hall Council, 1970s

88        Victorian Trades Hall Council- occupational health and safety, 1981-86

89        Victorian Trades Hall Council, 1980s and 1990s

90        Victorian Trades Hall Council- miscellaneous, n.d.

91        Victorian Tramways Union, 1971

92        Waterside Workers’ Federation- Sydney & South Coast Branches, 1926-39

93-97   Waterside Workers’ Federation Federal Committee of Management minutes, 1939-43 ( 5 files)

98        Waterside Workers’ Federation minimum wage reports, 1939-51

99        Waterside Workers’ Federation Sydney Branch, 1940-49

100      Waterside Workers’ Federation Sydney Branch, 1943-52

101      Waterside Workers’ Federation Sydney Branch (mainly), 1943-58

102      Waterside Workers’ Federation Sydney Branch, 1951-58

103      Waterside Workers’ Federation Sydney Branch, 1967-78 including Women’s Committee (1968-71)

104      Waterside Workers’ Federation Sydney Branch, 1987-91 & undated material including badges

105      Waterside Workers’ Federation Melbourne Branch, 1920-76; Brisbane Branch, 1989

106      Waterside Workers’ Federation- Port Adelaide and Port Pirie, 1915-82

107      Waterside Workers’ Federation- Western Australia, 1920-92

108      Waterside Workers’ Federation- Hurley Case including Hobart Branch correspondence, 1956-59

109      Waterside Workers’ Federation- NZ waterfront dispute, 1951

110      West Australian Shearers’ and Shed Workers’ Union of Workers, 1930-31

111      Zinc Workers’ Union, 1937-53

Subseries 2     Geographical sequence, 1857-1999

Folder

1          Trade unions: Australian Capital Territory, 1984-85

2          Trade unions: international- Scandinavian publications

3          Trade unions: international- World Federation of Trade Unions- photographs of the Konferensi Nasional Sentral Organisasi Burum Selurum (S.O.B.S.I), Indonesia, n.d.

4          Trade unions: international- World Trade Union Conference (5th: Moscow, 4-15 Dec. 1961)

5          Trade unions: international, 1901-91 (Includes 1 folio item: The Scottish worker, 10-15 May 1926)

6           Trade unions: New South Wales, 1892-1927

7          Trade unions: New South Wales, 1936-49

8          Trade unions: New South Wales, 1952-58

9          Trade unions: New South Wales, 1955-64 (building trade unions)

10        Trade unions: New South Wales, 1966-79

11        Trade unions: New South Wales, 1983-91

12        Trade unions: Northern Territory, 1955-85

13        Trade unions: Queensland, 1887-1927

14        Trade unions: Queensland, 1893-1905.  Album containing cuttings relating to the 1889 Brisbane printers’ strike and articles calling for the formation of a labour party in Queensland.

15        Trade unions: Queensland, 1931-39.  Relates to the newspapers The Daily Standard, The Worker and Labour Daily.

16        Trade unions: Queensland- Labour Daily Newspaper Company, 1940

17        Trade unions: Queensland, 1943-61 including a file on Collinsville

18        Trade unions: Queensland, 1962-89

19        Trade unions: South Australia, 1872-1991

20        Trade unions: South Australia, 1971.  Cuttings relating to mining and metal trades.

21        Trade unions: Tasmania, 1973

22-24   Trade unions: Victoria, 1857-1919

25        Trade unions: Victoria, 1910-29

26        Trade unions: Victoria- One Big Union, 1913-23

27        Trade unions: Victoria, 1930-39

28        Trade unions: Victoria- pamphlets relating to strikes or union claims, 1933-58

29        Trade unions: Victoria, 1941-48

30        Trade unions: Victoria, 1950-67

31        Trade unions: Victoria, 1970-79

32-33   Trade unions: Victoria, 1980-89 (2 files)

34        Trade unions: Victoria, 1990-99

35        Trade unions: Victoria, undated

36        Trade unions: Western Australia, 1900-49

37        Trade unions: Western Australia, 1931-41

38        Trade unions: Western Australia, 1954-67

39        Trade unions: Western Australia, 1990-97

40        Trade unions: Western Australia, 1996

Subseries 3     Chronological sequence, 1903-1990s

Folder

1          Trade unions: miscellaneous, 1903-18

2          Cuttings on millers, 1917-21

3          Trade unions: miscellaneous, 1918-30 (including Labor Papers)

4          Cuttings book on labour movement, 1919-26

5          Trade unions: miscellaneous, 1930-38

6          Trade unions: miscellaneous, 1942-49

7          Cuttings book, 1947-54

8          Cuttings, 1948

9          Trade unions: miscellaneous, 1951-59

10-11   Trade unions: miscellaneous, 1960-79

12        Trade unions: miscellaneous, 1980s

13        Trade unions: miscellaneous, 1990s

14        Trade unions: miscellaneous, undated

15        Trade union badges, stamps and other realia

Subseries 4     Papers of A.C. Williams, 1887-1975

Folder

1-5       Legislation, reports, cuttings, photographs, minutes and other papers of A.C. Williams, Secretary of the Ballarat Trades and Labor Council.  The papers relate to the Ballarat Trades and Labor Council, the Victorian Provincial Trades and Labor Council and other trade union matters.

Series 8           Phillip Bain Papers, 1919-86 (bulk 1972-86)

Phillip Russell Bain was born on 3 March 1954.  He attended La Trobe University in 1972-78 where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and Diploma of Education.  While a student at La Trobe, Bain was a member of the La Trobe Socialist Left and the Communist Group.  He was elected a member of the SRC in 1976 and later served as President.  In 1979 he was co-editor of the La Trobe University student’s newspaper Rabelais

Bain was an active member of the Northern Branch (formerly Heidelberg-La Trobe) of the Communist Party of Australia, serving as Joint Branch Secretary (1978), Treasurer (1979) and President.  In 1980 he was involved in the establishment of the Northern news, a multi-lingual monthly community newspaper.  He was also a member of the Preston Employment Action Group.

The papers relate mainly to Bain’s involvement in the Communist Party of Australia between 1976 and 1986.  There is also material relating to student politics at La Trobe University, the Northern News Group and the Thornbury Branch of the Australian Labor Party.  The papers include correspondence, minutes, newspaper clippings, Victorian State Conference papers, articles, leaflets, publications and notes and drafts by Bain.

Folder

1-4       Student politics (La Trobe University)/Communist Party of Australia, 1972-79 (4 files)

5          Communist Party of Australia, 1972-76.  Includes Victorian State Conference papers, May 1976

6          National Communist Student Conference and National Students Meeting, 1975-79

7          Environmentalism, 1979

8          CPA, 1977

9          CPA, 1978

10        CPA, 1979

11        CPA 26th Congress (Sydney, June 1979)

12        CPA, 1979-84

13        CPA, 1980

14        CPA, 1981

15        CPA Industrial Activists School, 17-18 October 1981

16        ALP Socialist Left, 1981-86

17        CPA, 1982-83

18        ALP Victorian State Conference, October 1984

19        CPA, 1984-86

20-21   Miscellaneous CPA papers, n.d.

22        Communist publications, 1919-82

23        Preston and Northcote newspaper, 1980

24        Local activities, Northcote/Preston, 1977-80

25        Northcote, 1974-80

26        Australian Labor Party, 1973-85

27        Northern news business plan, 1985

28-29   Miscellaneous papers, 1972-84 (2 files)

Series 9           Communist Party of Australia, 1919-88

Papers collected by Reeves relating to communism and the Communist Party of Australia.  Reeves’ files have been arranged roughly chronologically by Library staff, and interspersed with files of loose papers relating to the same period.  The papers include pamphlets, leaflets and other publications of the Communist Party, a Royal Commission report, articles, and speeches.

See also series 16 for Communist Party of Australia posters.  Papers relating to Andrew Reeves’ involvement in the Carlton Branch of the Australian Communist Party are at MS 9554.

Folder

1          Pre CPA, Marxism, Socialism, 1919-21

2          CPA, 1920-29.  Includes pamphlet ‘The Communist Party of Australia’, dating from c.1920 and containing the CPA’s initial declaration of aims

3          Excerpts from The Communist, 1922-23 and Workers’ weekly, 1929

4          Tea towels depicting the front page of The Communist, 27 April 1923

5          CPA, 1930-34

6          CPA publications, 1931-35

7          CPA, 1933-39

8          CPA popular front, 1934-39

9          CPA Sept. 1939 to illegality

10        CPA under illegality, 1940-42

11        CPA illegality- Australia-Soviet Friendship; aid to Russia, 1941

12        CPA illegality- Political Rights Committee, 1942

13-14   CPA, 1943-49

15        CPA Victoria- Country voice, 1944-45

16        CPA education and study courses, post 1945

17        Indonesian independence, 1945-46

18        CPA Dissolution Bill; referendum; Hollway Crimes Act (Vic.), 1948-53

19        Eureka Youth League, 1948-61

20        L.L Sharkey’s trial and gaoling, 1949

21        Charles Lowe. Report of the Royal Commission inquiring into the origins, aims, objects and funds of the Communist Party in Victoria and other related matters, 1950

22        Leaflets, 1952-56

23        Sugar, 1953

24        Petrov affair, 1954-55

25        Party builder, 1955-58

26        Australia-Soviet Friendship Society, 1956

27        CPA ‘The Stalin Question’, Tribune, 1956

28        CPA job bulletins, 1956-62

29        Brisbane Guardian, 1957

30        Crimes Act campaign, c.1958-61

31        CPA pamphlets, 1950s

32        CPA, 1960-68

33        CPA Rank and file circular (Vic), Maoist rank and file, 1962-63

34        Socialist Party of Australia post 1970/71 CPA breakaway

35        CPA, 1970-79

36        CPA, 1980-88

37        CPA, undated

Series 10                     Australian Labor Party, 1914-93

This sub-series forms two sequences of material: papers relating to the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party (folders 1-8) and other collected ALP paper, arranged chronologically (folders 9-20). 

The South Australian Branch papers include policy speeches by Dave McKee, candidate for the Port Pirie District (1958); agenda and minute papers from ALP annual conventions; news releases; ALP platform, constitution and rules; circulars; and biographies of candidates for the 1971 state elections.

The chronological papers include leaflets, pamphlets, Federal Platform statements, membership tickets, court transcripts, newspaper cuttings, election material and other ephemera.  These papers comprise files and loose materials kept in a box marked ALP by Andrew Reeves.

See also series 16 for Australian Labor Party posters.

Folder

1          Dave McKee Papers, 1958-59

2          ALP South Australian Branch, 1965-68

3          ALP South Australian Branch, 1969-70

4-5       ALP South Australian Branch, 1971 (2 files)

6          ALP South Australian Branch, 1972

7          ALP South Australian Branch, 1973

8          ALP South Australian Branch, 1974

9          ALP, 1914-24

10        Court transcripts (High Court of Australia) of case Australian Labor Party Victorian Central Executive v. Edmond John Hogan, 1934

11        ALP, 1928-44 including CPA applications for ALP affiliation

12        ALP, 1934-58

13        ALP, 1930-49 (file maintained by J.M. Galvin, General Secretary, Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen)

14-15   ALP, 1940-50 (2 files)

16        Papers on referenda (1944-73)

17        ALP, 1950-59

18        ALP, 1960-69

19        ALP, 1970-93

20        Undated ALP papers

Series 11                     Socialist Party of Australia, 1931-48

This series of files relates to the relationship between the Socialist Party of Australia and socialist parties in Great Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States during the 1930s and 40s.  The files contain correspondence, financial statements, meeting papers, reports and printed material.  The records were maintained by the then Secretary of the Socialist Party of Australia, William J. Clarke.  File titles have been inscribed by Andrew Reeves.

Folder

1          Correspondence, Socialist Party of Australia (SPA) to Socialist Party of Great Britain (SPGB), 1932-37

2          Correspondence, SPGB to SPA, 1932-38

3          Copies of correspondence between SPGB and the Workers’ Socialist Party of the United States of America (WSPUSA), 1941-42

4          Copy of letter SPGB to Socialist Party of Canada (SPC) and WSPUSA, July 1942

5          SPGB Press Cuttings Department letters to SPA, n.d.

6          SPGB- financial statements, 1932-34

7          SPGB Executive Committee meetings, 1924-39

8          SPGB Annual Conference, 1933-34

9          SPGB 1932 propaganda report; 1932 Editorial Committee report

10        SPGB notes for writers; Central Branch newsletter, 1932

11        SPGB photographs, c1940-41

12        SPGB printed handbills, 1931-33

13        SPGB miscellaneous, 1931

14        Correspondence, SPA to SPC, 1933-38

15        Correspondence, SPC to SPA, 1933-38

16        Correspondence relating to ‘The Canadian dispute’, 1935-37

17        SPC publications, 1932-36

18        Report of the 4th annual conference, WSPUSA, Dec. 1934

19        Correspondence between WSPUSA and SPA, 1934-35

20        Correspondence between SPA and Socialist Party of New Zealand (SPNZ), 1932-34

21        Socialist Party of Australia, c1940-48

22        Militant Socialist international, 1945

Series 12         League of Nations International Labour Conference, 1919-25

Papers relating to the seventh session of the League of Nations International Labour Conference, Geneva, 1925.

Folder

1-2       Conference papers, 1925

3          Report of the Director, 1925

4          League of Nations and International Labour Office publications, 1919-25

5          Provisional record, no. 1-29, 1925

Series 13                     Association of Architects, Surveyors, Engineers and Draughtsmen of Australia, 1963-80

Annual Conference minutes of the Association.

Folder/piece

1          Minutes, 1963

2          Minutes, 1964

3          Minutes, 1965

4          Minutes, 1966

5          Minutes, 1967

6          Minutes, 1968

7          Minutes, 1969

8          Minutes, 1970

9          Minutes, 1971

10        Minutes, 1972

11        Minutes, 1973

12        Minutes, 1974

13        Minutes, 1975

14        Minutes, 1976

15        Minutes, 1977

16        Minutes, 1978

17        Minutes, 1979

18        Minutes, 1980

Series 14                     Co-operatives, 1896-1995

Minutes, memoranda and articles of association, correspondence, agency agreements, circulars, bonus share certificates, reports, financial statements, photographs and publications collected by Andrew Reeves relating to co-operatives, mainly in Western Australia.

Folder

1-2       Beverley Farmers’ Cooperative, 1920-93

3          Central Southern District Council minute book, 1931-50

4          Collie Industrial Co-operative Society reports and balance sheets, 1956-60

5-6       Co-operative Federation of Western Australia, 1919-71

7          Co-operative Wholesale Services report and balance sheet, 1955

8          Cunderin Farmers Co-operative Company, 1946-87

9          Denmark Co-operative Company, 1960-92

10-13   Mount Barker Co-operative, 1939-94

14        Westralian Farmers, 1921-56

15        Other co-operatives, 1956-94

16        Other papers on co-operatives, 1896-1990

17        Publications and photographs, 1984-95

Series 15                     Photographs, 1888-c1978

Photographs, slides and negatives collected by Andrew Reeves depicting trade union activities.

Folder/piece

1          Photographic plate depicting conference of delegates of the Shearers’ Union held in Echuca, March 7 1888

2          1891 Shearers’ strike

3          Photographs of eight hour day rallies including the Glass Workers’ Union (Victoria, 26 April 1909); Duke of York celebrations procession, Bourke Street, Melbourne; and the Coastal Boilermakers’ Union of W.A., 1909 (Folio)

4          Australian Meat Employees Industrial Union Queensland Branch, c.1910-20?

5          Photographs, including Waterside Workers’ Federation Burnie and Sydney Branches, the A.U.S.N. SS Arawatta discharging bananas at the company’s wharf, and O.S.M.S. conference 1918

6          South Australian Waterside Workers’ Federation, 1920s

7          South Australian Federated Operative Bakers’ Union, 1923-26 and Perth Federated Operative Bakers’ Union, 1912

8          Photographs, c.1936-1959 including Labor Day photographs (c.1936?) depicting the Operative Society of Bricklayers of Queensland, Shop Assistants’ Union and others; photograph labelled ‘Federal Council, Oct. 1944; Building Workers’ Industrial Union annual conference, 1959; and the Youth Carnival for Peace and Friendship, 1950s?

9          Album of photographs of a trip to Russia, 1959

10        Waterside Workers’ Federation, 1950s and 1960s

11        Photographs (mostly undated) including drawing and photographs of Melbourne Trades Hall buildings, Federated Miners’ Union Committee, anti-fascist demonstration, workers at Portland Cement Works (Geelong) and portraits of Victorian Building Workers’ Industrial Union president Alex Lindsay, n.d. and of Tom Audley, c1978

12        Undated photographs including banners of the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union (NSW Branch) and the Coach and Rolling Stock Makers’ Society, the Brisbane United Coal Workers and Waterside Workers’ Federation Women’s Committee (Folio)

13        Negatives, n.d.

Series 16                     Posters

Posters relating to the trade union movement, Communist Party of Australia, Australian Labor Party, Vietnam War, international politics, music, drama and student politics.  Includes a poster depicting Sir John Kerr for a rally in Treasury Gardens (Melbourne) following the sacking of E.G. Whitlam on 11 November 1975, as well as posters relating to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, uranium mining, woodchipping, Vietnam War protest rallies, anti conscription and the Fraser Government.

Folio package

1          Communist Party of Australia

2          Trade unions

3          Australian Labor Party

4          Vietnam War

5          International politics

6          Music and drama events

7          Miscellaneous

Series 17         Other collected papers, 1887-1997

Other files and loose papers collected by Reeves including lectures, articles, reports, ephemera, cutting books, leaflets, banners, an Aboriginal flag and other papers.  The files are arranged roughly chronologically.

Folder

1          Other collected papers, 1887-1926 including Political Labour Council of Victoria, 1903-13

2          Western Australian Cine-Electro Social Club, 1930-31

3          Cutting book, 1931-34

4          Victorian Council Against War and Fascism; National Movement Against War; ‘Peace and Democracy’ Campaign, 1931-39

5          Australian Council for Civil Liberties, 1937-39

6          Other collected papers, 1938-43

7-8       Cutting books, 1940-41 (2 files)

9          Workers’ Literature bureau, 1943-48

10        ‘Opinion: in the matter of Stamps Act’ Maurice Blackburn and Co, June 1948

11        Economic Society of Australian and New Zealand, 1949-54

12        Other collected papers, 1950-67

13        Margins for Skill: a summary of the decisions of industrial tribunals regarding preservation of the proportion of the margin to the basic wage’ B.W. French, c.1953

14        Rupert Lockwood ‘Australia’s shipping problem’, c1961-62

15        Other collected papers, 1971-78

16        Other collected papers, 1970s

17        ‘Tasmania- federal intervention’.  Report by F.W. Nicol, 1971

18        Peace, 1977-84

19        Other collected papers, 1983-89

20        Other collected papers, 1990-97

21        Ephemera (WA), c1996

22-23   Other collected papers (undated) 2 files

24        Aboriginal flag


Box List

Box

Series

Folder/Piece

1

1

1-10

2

 

11-17

3

2

1-19

4

 

20-31

5

3

1-18

6

4

1-7

 

5

1-4

7

 

5-10

 

6

1-3

8

 

4-11

9

 

12-14

 

7/1

1-4

10

 

5-10

11

 

11-18

12

 

19-26

13

 

27-33

14

 

34-38

15

 

39-44

16

 

45-50

17

 

51-57

18

 

58-64

19

 

65-70

20

 

71-77

21

 

78-83

22

 

84-91

23

 

92-98

24

 

99-107

25

 

108-111

 

7/2

1-2

26

 

3-8

27

 

9-14

28

 

15-20

29

 

21-27

30

 

28-35

31

 

36-40

 

7/3

1-2

32

 

3-7

33

 

8-13

34

 

14-15

35

7/4

1-5

36

8

1-7

37

 

8-14

38

 

15-21

39

 

22-24

40

 

25-29

41

9

1-18

42

 

19-31

43

 

32-37

 

10

1-3

44

 

4-10

45

 

11-17

46

 

18-20

 

11

1-16

47

 

17-22

 

12

1-3

48

 

4-5

 

13

1-4

49

 

5-13

50

 

14-18

 

14

1-3

51

 

4-12

52

 

13-17

 

15

1-2

53

 

4-10

54

 

11, 13

 

17

1-6

55

 

7-13

56

 

14-19

57

 

20-23

Folio Box List

Series

Piece

Location

7/2

5

Folio box 1

15

3

Folio box 1

15

12

Folio box 1

16

1-7

Map cabinets

17

24

Folio box 1


July 2001.