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 Librarys 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 Womens 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 & Firemens 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 Womens 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 students 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 Bains 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 CPAs 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 Sharkeys 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 companys 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 Womens
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
Australias 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.