Guide to the Papers of Barrie Blears
MS Acc03.301.MS Acc22.153
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Created: 19/01/2023
Collection Summary
- Title
- Papers of Barrie Blears
- Date Range
- c1920s-2002
- Collection Number
- MS Acc03.301.MS Acc22.153
- Extent
- 9.48 metres (48 ms boxes + 1 med folio box + 3 large folio boxes + 1 folder)
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Special Collections (Manuscripts)
Introduction
Scope and Contents
MS Acc03.301 includes records of the Eureka Youth League comprising minutes, reports, letters, unpublished histories, tape recordings, transcripts, photograph albums, newspapers, card indexes and also printed ephemera, such as flyers, posters, circulars, newsletters and programs.The MS Acc22.153 consignment includes Alan Herbert's 1930s photograph album of the Melbourne Young Communist League and Melbourne New Theatre League; eight loose photographs of Eureka Youth League activities; programme and posters from the Youth Carnival for Peace and Friendship; programme from the Gala Friendship Dance, and; Peace Art Prize Exhibition catalogue.
Conditions Governing Access
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1598482).
Conditions Governing Use
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Preferred Citation
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Barrie Blears, National Library of Australia, [class/series/file/item number(s)]'.
Finding Aid Source(s)
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Collection retrieval advice
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Item Descriptions
Class 1. Consignment received 2003
Guide to Action, April 1948 - 1949 (File) - Box 1
Newsletter issued by the Eureka Youth League National Council. Subjects include: branch activities; youth movements; education issues; international developments; reports to National Council; and the Arbitration Court. Incomplete set.
Guide, May 1945 - July 1963 (File) - Box 1
Newsletter issued by the Eureka Youth League National Council. Subjects include: national conference reports and issues; international developments (including reporting of Soviet developments); socialist philosophy; youth programmes and camps; and working class youth engagement. Incomplete set.
Etc', November 1965 - August 1967 (File) - Box 1
Newsletter of the Eureka Youth League, Sydney. Issued by the National Council. Subjects include: philosophical and political issues and analysis; socialist thought; Congress and Youth Forum activities; and international developments. Complete set.
Arrow Newsletter, May 1957 - September 1958 (File) - Box 1
Newsletter issued by the Eureka Youth League National Council. Subjects include: League activities,events and camps; meetings at national and State level; trade union, wages and conditions issues; social/youth issues; protests; international organisations; and the Communist Party. Incompete set.
Handwritten notes, undated (File) - Box 1
Handwritten notes entitled 'Role and Work of E.Y.C' (possibly notes by Barrie Blears).
Correspondence, May 1966 - March 1969 (File) - Box 2
Correspondence relating to US and Canada, mostly between the Eureka League and fellow socialist and communist organisations. Also with the United States Department of Justice.
Correspondence, February 1966 - October 1966 (File) - Box 2
A group of loose pages of correspondence between the Eureka Youth League and related overseas organisations. Also includes a booklet re Mozambique Liberation Front.
World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) papers, May 1966 - October 1968 (File) - Box 2
WFDY papers, including copies of its newsletter and correspondence relating to conferences and international issues of concern.
Journal articles, undated (File) - Box 2
Copies of articles relating to British industrial relations and the Young Communist League of Great Britain.
Miscellaneous, largely undated (File) - Box 2
Papers include: administrative material; invitations, postcard, material on anti-conscription campaign, EYL constitution proposals; handwritten notes on the League: and part of a typewritten paper on youth views and affiliations by religion.
Booklets, Mostly undated (one dated 1948) (File) - Box 3
Small booklets produced by the Eureka Youth League, including: 'Our Future'; 'The Way to the Future'; 'Moscow turned it on'; 'Meet Bill and Diana'; and 'The Story of the Eureka Youth League'.
Songbooks, 1962 and undated (earlier edition) (File) - Box 3
Two editions of EYL songbooks (Everyboy Sings and Sing!).
Ephemera, 1952 -1965 (File) - Box 3
Includes League promotional material, branch newsletters; anti war broadsheets; material relating to 1957 World Youth Festival in Moscow; camp program; calendar (1965); voting age issues; and material relating to working conditions, apprentices and technical training.
Ephemera, 1947 - 1965 (File) - Box 3
Includes a file containing copies of the Constitution (1947, 1961 and 1964), invitations to League functions and membership cards. Badge designs, and programme/conference material.
Photographs and slides, undated (File) - Box 3
Black and white photos of speaker at EYL event (two copies) and of a group of 13 EYL members (multiple copies). Negatives. Slides: including six relating to Vienna and ten which appear to be an event in Canberra.
Papers, 1967 - 1968 (File) - Box 4
Papers relating to the Communist Party of Australia (CPA), youth committes and league conferences - and related movements and issues.
Papers (File) - Box 4
Includes: notes on youth issues, National Council matters, Congress papers and handwritten notes.
Administrative correspondence and papers, 1945-1966 (File) - Box 5
Papers relating to National Conferences (resolutions, statements, reports, addresses, and programs) and to NSW State Council. Constitutions.
Target, 1959 - 1961 (File) - Box 5
Magazine of the Eureka Youth League. Bound copies (Jun 1959-dec 1961) plus loose copies.
Administrative file, 1961-1964 (File) - Box 7
Bureau of Statistics data relating to youth, population, education, employment.
Administrative file (File) - Box 7
Radical education project material (USA) - comprises booklets and printed material.
Papers, c 1950s and 1960s (File) - Box 7
Booklets and printed materials relating mostly to international developments.
Ephemera, 1940s - 1980s (File) - Box 8
Three packets of loose material relating to World Youth Festivals at various venues. Includes booklets, pamphlets, programs, notes for delegates, correspondence and newspaper cuttings.
Photographs and slides (File) - Box 8
Relating to World Youth Festivals at various venues in Europe.
Administrative files, 1940s - 1950s (File) - Box 9
Bulletins , newsletters, booklets and and leaflets (including: of the Australian Student Labour Federation; Friends of Services Clubs of the EYL; Association of Australian Dancers; EYL publications; and a booklet '1854 The Eureka Stockade', 1954).
Administrative files, 1940s - 1950s (File) - Box 9
Material relating to Chas Bresland and Audrey Blake - speeches, publications and letters. Blake was a prominent political activist and organiser, leader of the Eureka Youth League in the 1940s and 1950s and its Youth Carnival for Peace and Friendship in 1952. Charles Bresland was active in both the Communist Party of Australia and the Eureka Socialist League (including briefly as National Secretary of the League in the early 50s). Both were active in international socialist and youth organisations.
Administrative files, 1940s - 1970s (File) - Box 9
Files of correspondence, newspaper cuttings, meeting material etc relating to particular issues including: elections, indigenous people; proposed anti-communist legislation; youth working conditions; and apprentices.
Administrative files, 1930s - 1960s (File) - Box 9
Files relating to range of organisations and associations (including socialist, communist and trade union bodies). Includes correspondence, agenda papers and reports and promotional material.
Administrative files, 1940s - 1950s (File) - Box 10
Bulletins, booklets, and newsletters, including: EYL Rally newsletters, leadership handbook; National Fitness Council, Shock Brigader and Spark up booklets and factory bulletins.
Administrative files, 1940s - 1950s (File) - Box 10
Files relating to organisations including socialist youth bodies and councils. Gymnastic Club NSW and National Union of Australia University Students. Material includes correspondence, promotional material and reports.
Administrative files, 1940s - 1970s (File) - Box 10
Material including: on EYL National Games (certificates), papers on international youth and Komosol; and report by M. Robertson on The Australian Labour Movement.
Diary and notebooks, 1950s-1967 (File) - Box 10
1967 diary; notebook annotated 'Tribune - references to EYL 1950s-60s'; notebook annotated 'Guardian notes'; and notebook of D. Wenban recording Gym Club Secretary's notes, 1950s.
Administrative files, 1940s - 1950s (File) - Box 11
Correspondence, promotional material, reports etc relating to: Young Workers' Festival, 1954; Youth Parliaments; YWCA; Youth Chamber; and youth rights.
Papers and ephemera, 1950s - 1970s (File) - Box 12
Songs lyrics, music; newsletters including 'What's on' and 'Wallaby Tales'; and papers relating to Eureka Youth League, Melbourne (1960s), Eureka Writers' Group, 1950s; plays; and newspaper cuttings (1970s).
Administrative files, 1950s and 1960s (File) - Box 13
Junior Eureka League (JEL) - includes correspondence activity programs; copies of 'Cobber', the journal of the Junior Eureka League; pamphlets Constitution of the 'Melbourne Waterfront Youth Group'; photographs (black and white, unidentified). References to Katherine Susannah Prichard. Material from one file (JEL Camp Finance) removed and placed in new folder with copy of original title cover.
Loose papers and ephemera, 1950s and 1960s (File) - Box 13
Includes material on Junior Eureka League camps (eg programmes, photographs, administrative arrangements).
History of the Eureka Youth League, 1993 (File) - Box 14
Bound typescript entitled 'Notes on the development of the Eureka Youth League and its predecessors', by Audrey Blake. Originally compiled 1956 but this copy contains an Afterword dated 1993. Blake was a prominent political activist and organiser, leader of the Eureka Youth League in the 1940s and 1950s and its Youth Carnival for Peace and Friendship in 1952. Also actively involved in international socialist and youth movements.
Papers and ephemera, 1940s to 1980s (File) - Box 14
Includes historical material relating to: the Eureka Youth League; Australian communist and socialist organisations; youth movements; and labour developments internationally. Also includes papers relating to a 1980 reunion of EYL and JEL members.
Papers, Largely undated (File) - Box 14
Notes, drafts and speeches of Barrie Blears relating to history of EYL and associated organisations and movements.
Administrative files, 1960s (File) - Box 15
Relating to the Vietnam War. Includes correspondence; newsletters and statements produced by the League; pamphlets and flyers. There is also a copy of 'Current History', a monthly magazine of the New York Times, Vol VI, No. 3, June 1917.
Administrative file, 1966 (File) - Box 16
Papers relating to activities of the Eureka Youth League (including correspondence, newsletters, conference material and newspaper cuttings) and a badge. Key issues include: anti Vietnam war and conscription protests; youth wages; and debates about the state, organisation and focus of the EYL and the future of socialist youth organisation.
Administrative file, 1960s (File) - Box 16
Relating to Youth Camps. Includes correspondence, flyers, activity programs, notes re supplies, menus and receipts.
Administrative files, 1944-1955 (File) - Box 18
Events in sequence'. Papers, correspondence, song books, EYL constitutions, booklets, newsletters and ephemera. One file for each year. Issues covered include: political (eg Menzies' anti-communist measures; wartime leadership and policies; and anti conscription movement); international developments (eg protesting atomic bomb and use of bacteriological warfare in Korea and advocating withdrawal of Japanese Peace Treaty) and conferences (eg Komsomol Congress Moscow 1954); wages and working conditions; apprenticeship training and conditions; and work of associated organisations eg Melbourne University Labour Club and waterside, metalworking, building, railway worker unions.
Administrative files, 1956-1965, 1967-1968 (File) - Box 19
Papers, correspondence, promotional material, newspaper cuttings and ephemera. One file for each year. Includes EYL organisational material (eg flyers, events and activity programs, constitutions, conference papers and resolutions) and papers relating to internal division, debates and directions (including expulsions and resignations). Papers on international meetings (eg World Federation of Democratic Youth and Moscow World Festival of Youth, WFY). Papers of the CPA and Marxist Leninist perspectives. Union material. Black and white photographs (probably from WFY). Issues covered include: apprenticeship wages, conditions and training arrangements; anti-Menzies activity and action against nuclear weapons testing , Vietnam War, foreign policy (eg on Cuba and Indonesia), racial discrimination (including support for civil rights movement in USA).
Administrative file, 1940s (File) - Box 20
Papers relating to education. Material includes: course and lecture notes relating to leadership and branch/club organisation; papers on the importance of leisure time actvity programmes for the League; material on overseas youth movements; constitutions and resolutions; and Report by Audrey Blake to the 5th Annual Conference of the EYL (Victoria). (Noter: papers removed from original folder entitled 'Organisational Problem's (copy of spine included) and placed in two folders.)
Administrative files, 1940s to 1960s (File) - Box 20
Relating to education. Includes course material, newsletters (eg Debaters' Association, on Cybernation and Peace Manifesto); CPA constitution; and newspaper cuttings . Also includes material on the Free University administrative and enrolment forms. Material from two files removed and placed in new folders (Free University 1968 and CPA Education) with copy of original title cover.
Administrative and files and papers, 1940s-1960s (File) - Box 21
Education (International). Series of (broadly themed) folders: Education (including material on Free University 1960s); for EYL Archives (Eureka League study courses comprising typed course and lecture notes; conference reports; international youth movements; constitution and by-laws for the Victorian branch of the League (1940s). Reference file ( material on youth movements and their organisation comprising papers, booklets, newspaper cuttings, agenda papers and proposed objectives and resolutions ). Educational Material Young Workers' College (papers on EY educational programs comprising booklets, program material, reading lists international developments (eg Cyprus and Malaya international youth movemens developments. EY Class Material (eg public speaking, philosophy and the Communist movement and international youth movement and meetings; Branch Socials, papers on their organisation. Youth and Leadership General (papers and program material as well as material of the national Fitness Council. Special Documents, including EYL College flyers, papers on the role of education, reading lists, class outlines).
Booklets (File) - Box 21
Marxism and Youth, The Tasks of the Youth leagues, and The Executive Branch (of the Communist party) its organisation and Leadership)
Papers, 1940s to 1980s (File) - Box 22
Includes lists, notes,transcripts and cassette tapes of interviews conducted in relation to Blears' research on the history of the EYL and related movements (eg CPA). Some correspondence relating to his research. Also includes program for memorial service for David Landa.
State Conferences, 1940s and 1960s (File) - Box 23
Original box labelled NSW State Conference. Papers relating to NSW State Conferences. Comprises correspondence, typed notes, conference papers and resolutions. Also includes: a folder (labelled Reports) handwritten notes on reflections organisational and movements history; and ephemera (including league activity programs and flyers). Five empty files (four annoated with specific conference details and one Publications.
Administrative files, 1940s to 1960s (File) - Box 24
Original box labelled NSW. Folders annotated: Branch Bulletins (EY bulletins and related notices and song sheets from various branches); Technology (includes papers and bulletins in relation to peace movement); material on apprentice wages and working conditions; Report to EYL National Congress, 1952 by Audrey Blake) and untitled handwritten notes ; and NSW Youth Policy Advisory Committee ( EYL submission to the Committee).
Eureka Stockade, 1940s and 1950s (File) - Box 24
A booklet on the history of the Stockade by R.D Walshe, together with pamphlets advertising celebrations of the event.
Booklets, 1940s (File) - Box 24
Booklets produced by the League (Eureka Calls to Youth; Study, Organise and Play with the Eureka Youth League; and Eureka Youth League Manual for 1945).
Papers and ephemera, undated (File) - Box 24
Includes papers relating to Target newsletter and handwritten notes (possibly draft speech).
Administrative files, 1940s to 1960s (File) - Box 25
Mostly relating to the State Council of Victoria. Includes: State Council papers, resolutions, correspondence finances, promotional material (eg on League events, issues like conscription, elections, wages, unions and ant bomb action); camps; international concerns (eg re South Africa, China/India disputes, American civil rights and Croatia); and the target magazine. Also includes pamphlets from the 1940s.
Administrative files, 1950s and 1960s (File) - Box 26
Mostly relating to the State Council of Victoria. Includes minutes of meetings 1965-1968 (incomplete); correspondence of the State Secretary (1960s); State conference reports resolutions and agendas (1950s and 60s); summer school material, promotional flyers. Four empty file covers.
Administrative files, undated (File) - Box 27
Mostly relating to the Queensland branch of the League. Includes State Conference material (themes, resolutions and reports); flyers and promotional material; and a National EYL Bulletin.
Newsletter, 1946 (File) - Box 27
Two copies of '20th century Youth', newsletter of the Brisbane branch, Vol. 2, No. 4 and Vol. 3, No. 5, 1946.
Photographs, 1958, 1964 (File) - Box 27
Four black and white photographs: one EYL Queensland Branch 1964 and three small of early League camp and Dickie Beach, Calowindra, 1958.
Papers, 1960s (File) - Box 27
Papers relating to the South Australian Branch of the League. Includes folder of miscellaneous material; flyers, promotional and program material; course material for League courses; newspaper cuttings; correspondence (including in relation to opposing Vietnam War and South Africa Apartheid); conference resolutions; union, wages and apprenticeship issues; material on demonstrations, marches and peace walks. Also includes other leaflets and flyers and Junior League material; handwritten List of Interviewees in S.A. (Barrie Blears) and 13 black and white photographs, including of league camps (some names provided on rear of photographs), Labour Day March 1961; other marches; and Lance Best in China).
Administrative files, 1946-1950 (File) - Box 28
Papers of the League's West Australian branch. Incoming correspondence (including flyers, proposals, Marxist booklet, State Conferences, international and local youth events, Government referendum, union activity and resolutions). Outgoing correspondence and minutes of meetings (including re peace and conscription campaigns, events, courses and processions and circulars. National Reports (correspondence, reports. resolutions, finances and activities. WA/National Officers Correspondence (finance and constitution issues; international events; state programs, national Council matters and HC Williams tour). '20th Century Youth' (September and November 1943 and March 44 issues.
Administrative file, 1948 (File) - Box 28
Papers relating to the 'Legion of Liberty' rally held in Perth, Mar 1948 together with a copy of 'The Legion', official organ of the Legion of Liberty, Vol 1, No. 1, 1948. Nine issues of The Pelican , WA University Guild Journal (1947/1948) and an April 1948 copy of the WA University Labor Club.
Papers (File) - Box 28
Miscellaneous loose papers (including National Fitness Council; and State EY Council papers, flyers, activities).
Photographs (File) - Box 28
Black and white photographs (26) mostly of Australian delegation to VIth World Festival in Russia and visit to China.
Administrative files, 1965-1970 (File) - Box 29
Papers mostly relating to Trade Union Youth Week celebrations and events (eg in 1965 and 1966). Includes programs, cuttings, press statements, typed notes, and ephemera. One black and white photo of session (includes Laurie Carmichael). Also includes material on related individual union Youth Week activities (eg Waterside Workers, Metal Trades and Building unions). Reviews, considerations and correspondence and papers regarding future Youth Week Events.
Administrative files (File) - Box 30
Papers relating to Trade Unions. Includes booklets on New Deal for Aborigines (T Wright) and Workers' Control (CPA) and a typescript of a paper on 'Service problems and Rehabilitation' from the NSW Conference of Labor Councils, Unions, Shop Committess and Ex-Service Organizations. Also includes: typed notes about issues of concern; Trade Union leaflets; flyers; pamphlets and booklets; and newspaper cuttings. Issues relating to wages and conditions; the arbitration system; strikes and disputes; and political campaigns.
Administrative files, 1941-1946 (File) - Box 31
Volume containing Minutes of Meetings of the Sydney District Youth Committee, 16 Apr 1941-16 Jan 1946, with loose papers, including minutes, receipts and correspondence.
The Foco Club, 1968-1969 (File) - Box 31
Copies of the The Foco Club Newsletter, Brisbane, Vol. 1 No. 2, 1968 - Vol. 2 No. 19, 1969 together with a typescript entitled 'Who killed Foco?'.
Papers, 1944-1946 (File) - Box 31
Papers relating to the trade union youth committees and factory organisations (including material relating to rail, clerks and meatworkers' unions)
The Young Engineer, 1943 - 1945 (File) - Box 31
Copies of 'The Young Engineer' newsletter, Sydney, Vol. 1 No. 11, Feb 1943 - Vol 3 No. 7, Feb 1945 (incomplete)
News bulletin, 1962 (File) - Box 31
Copies of 'Status', bulletin of the Trainee Teachers' Claims Co-ordinating Committee for the NSW Teachers' Federation, March, April, July and September 1962.
Administrative papers, 1950s (File) - Box 32
Papers relating to Trade Union Youth Committees and apprenticeship issues. Includes: correspondence (Metal Trades Apprenticehip Committee 1955/56); copies of 'The Young Engineer' newsletter; copies of apprentice newsletters and flyers; minutes and adminstration papers relating to apprentice committees (eg Blacksmiths Society, Amalgamated Engineering Union and the Metal Trades Apprenticeship Committee 1955/57); miscellaneous papers relating to apprenticehip conventions, delegations to Government, Government inquiries and promotoional material; handwritten notes on apprenticeship arrangements and conditions; and apprentice committee membership details.
Newsletters and ephemera, 1951-1975 (File) - Box 33
Includes copies of Praxis, a C.P.A. [Communist Party of Australia] forum for discussion and information, Nos. 5, 6, and 7, 1975; 'Communist Review', No. 116, Aug 1951; Report of the Work of the Central Committee from the 14th to 15th National Congress; and a booklet of documents recording the main decisions of the 13th National Congress of the Eureka Youth League, 1964. Also booklets relating to the C.P.A. 21st Congress, 1967: 'Documents', 'Discussion Journal' No. 1, Mar 1967, and 'Discussion Journal' No. 4, May 1967.
Papers, c1960s (File) - Box 33
Eureka Youth League ephemera c1960s including leaflets entitled '15,16,17 Year Olds….Where are you going?'. Also includes a typescript entitled 'The party and the younger generation' by Max Ogden, 1967.
Papers, 1957-1967 (File) - Box 33
Folder entitled EYL CPA Relations with typescripts of J.R. Hughes material: 'Youth Report' Sep 1963; and 'We are engaged in a struggle for the minds of youth undated'. Folder entitled Challenge with 'Report on Youth' by Mavis Robertson, 1967; letter (incomplete) written by Mavis Robertson; and 'Draft resolution for Victorian State Conference', 1957. Folder entitled Vic Bird - Letter with letter from Bird to Barrie Blears.Note: two files 'EYA-CPA returns' and '1948 report of CC..' were empty at the time the collection was acquired.
Booklets, c1920s (File) - Box 34
Ammunition! One year of struggle - the activities of the Y.C.I. since the second International Congress', 1922; 'Manual for leaders of children's groups' by Edwin Hoernle; and 'The Programs of the Young Communist International'.
Sixth Congress of the Young Communist International, 1935 (File) - Box 34
Extracts from the report of Comrade M. Woolf; typescript entitled 'The tasks of the United Front of the Youth - resolution adopted at the sixth congress'.
Booklets, 1935-1969 (File) - Box 34
Titles include: 'Youth in our time', Moscow, 1969; 'Youth and fascism', speech by O. Kuusinen at the seventh World Congress of the Communist International, Moscow, 1935; 'A new type of youth organisation', from the concluding speech of Wolf Mical at a Congress of Youth Leagues, nd., 'On reorganizing the work of the Young Communist League', report of the eleventh plenum of the C.C. of the Young Communist League, by A. Kossarev, 1935; 'For political liberty and the defeat of Hitlerism', speech delivered by J.D. Blake, Melbourne, 1941; 'Youth in action', report of the National Youth Parliament, Easter, 1941; and 'New deal for youth', 1939.
Newsletter, c1939-1940 (File) - Box 34
Copies of 'Challenge', official organ of the League of Young Democrats (ranging from Aug 25 1945 edition to Feb 2 1940). Folder also includes Young Communist League Conference program and pamphlet 'The Party and the Youth Movement'.
Administrative folders, 1920s and 30s (File) - Box 34
Labour Guild of Youth membership (1926). Notes from discussions relating to the development of the Youth Communist League and relatioship with the EYL and the CPA. Empty folder.
Newsletter, 1983 (File) - Box 34
Groundswell', No. 3, Mar-Apr 1983. Published by the Sydney area Young Communist Movement.
Newsletters, 1945-1949 (File) - Box 35
Copies of international journals 'Jeuness du Monde' in French together with English version 'World Youth'. Also includes typescript (in French) of presentation by Jean Desmaison (Federation Syndicale Mondiale) on young workers' participation; and booklet on the VIth Assembly of the World Federation of Youth in Warsaw, 1962.
World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) papers, 1953-1968 (File) - Box 35
Papers include a report on the major initiatives from the 'International Seminar on the Role of Youth Organisations in the Eradication of Illiteracy', Ulan-Bator, 1968; published report on the VIth Assembly of WFDY, Warsaw, 1962; and a report on the 'International Conference of Youth and Students for Disamament Peace and National Independence', Florence, 1964. There is also a (black and white) photograph from a 1953 Congress in Moscow. Includes correspondence regarding Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia and its ramifications for the movement in Australia.
World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) papers, 1962-1972 (File) - Box 35, Box 36
Papers include: correspondence, mostly administrative; reports of WFDY activities; speech notes; information sheets; a large group of typescripts comprising notes on various issues, resolutions reached, backgrounds to meeting etcs; and ephemera.
World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) papers, 1966-1973 (File) - Box 36
Notes taken by Mavis Robertson at the VIIth Assembly, Sofia, 1966; published report of the 8th Assembly, Budapest, 1970; and minutes from Executive Committee meetings, 1973.
Sixth World Festival of Youth and Students, Moscow, 1957; and WFDY and World Youth festivals (1960s), 1956-1957; and 1960s (File) - Box 36
Papers include: correspondence; program; copies of 'Festival', newspaper of the International Preparatory Committee (IPC); Constitution of the IPC; draft report to WFDY by EYL; and ephmera. Also includes material from 1960s regarding WFDY position in response to Czechoslovakia developments; report on EYL representation and delegation composition to WFDY; and EYL proposals regrading the future of World Youth Festivals.
World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) papers, 1962-1978 (File) - Box 36
Miscellaneous loose papers, including papers relating to: 10th World Festival of Youth and Students (1962); 10th Assembly of WFDY member organisations (1978); and 11th World Festival of Youth and Students in Havana (1978). Also includes EYL and CPA papers including relating to: visit of Soviet Youth Delegation (1966); draft study course for young communists; CPA district material; and EYL views on future of WFDY.
Notes, c1970s (File) - Box 36
Notes taken by an unidentified person (possibly Barrie Blears) regarding meeting of EYL National Council; and developments in Vietnam and Britain.
World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) papers, 1951 (File) - Box 36
Papers relating to the Berlin Youth Festival, 1951; and correspondence including regarding meetings with Berlin Peace Committee.
World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) papers, 1944 - 1968 (File) - Box 37
Newsletters, booklets and publications. These include World Youth (WFDY publication); all issues 1950; all issues except for Nos 6 and 8 1951; two issues 1952 (January and December); two (May and November) 1953; two (May and June ) 1959. Also includes: Students at War ( National Union of Czechoslavak Students) 1944; The Activity of World Federation of Democratic Youth 1945 to 1949; Official Report of World Youth Conference London 1945; Warsaw 1948 International Conference of Working Youth; papers of the 2nd Congress of the WFDY Budapest 1949; World Youth (WFDY publication); Journey to Berlin Report of a Commission of Inquiry (National Council of Civil Liberties) 1951; documents of the WFDY Executive Committeee Oslo 1952; papers of the 3rd World Youth Congress in Bucharest 1953; This is the IUS (International Union of Students) 1953; Handbook on Asian Youth and Student Organisations (WFDY) undated; World Youth Demand an End to the Bacteriological War in Korea and China (WFDY) 1952; Festival - newsletter of the International Preparatory Committee for the VIIth World Festival of Youth and Students for Peace and Friendship (Februrary and June 1959; Assembly of the WFDY Sofia 1966; and Formation Professionale (booklet in French regarding vocational training) conference 1968.
Newsletter, c1939-1940 (File) - Box 38
Copies of a newsletter called 'Out-cry'. Appears to be primarily reporting on youth activities at EYL youth camp in Cowes, Victoria.
Young Socialist Leage of Australia (YSL), 1966-1968 (File) - Box 38
State Council Minute Book, 18 Dec 1966 - 15 Sep 1968.
Young Socialist League of Australia (YSL), late 1960s-1970s (File) - Box 39
Papers relating to the YSL. Includes the Constitution; newsletters, pamphlets; booklets; advertising flyers; and typed statements on various issues of the day. Key issues raised include: anti-conscription and Vietnam War activity; student unrest and movements; views on international developments, eg in relation to the Dominican Republic, Spain and Czechoslavakia: the arbitration system and apprenticehip conditions; and education and conference programs. Also includes: black and white photo of Manly Anti-Vietnam War rally (1969); and a Young Socialist league of Australia stamp. A range of newsletters and booklets published by other socialist organisations included.
Young Socialist Leage of Australia (YSL), 1967-1969 (File) - Box 39
Correspondence, including on: administrative and organisational issues; anti-conscription and war activity; and protest and education activities.
Communist Party of Australia (CPA), 1969-1971 (File) - Box 39
Papers relating to the CPA and the Young Communists league. Includes the Constitution; Discussion Bulletins; report of the 20th Congress; newsletters; and program outline for the Marxist Summer School, 1969-1970. Key issues include: internal debate about positioning and organisation; the continuing impact of Czechoslovakia developments; anti-war protests; student unrest and movements; Gurindji Land Rights movement; and position taken on the Government's refusal to issue replacement passport to Wilfred Burchett.
Conscription, 1951-1969 (File) - Box 40
Papers relating to activities opposing conscription in Australia, as well as pro peace and anti-bomb testing movements. Includes newscuttings, newsletters, advertising flyers; and typed statements on various related issues. Also a copy of the book 'Silence Kills' by J.F. Cairns, 1970.
Eureka Youth League (EYU), 1951-c1969 (File) - Box 40
Flyers; notes to members; and typed statements on various issues of the day including world peace, conscription, nuclear weapons.
Miscellaneous loose material, 1945-1968 (File) - Box 41
Includes newscuttings; typed statements on issues of the day; newsletters; a booklet entitled 'A vision of peace through unity of Youth' published by the International Youth Committee, Sydney; and a booklet entitle 'Clubs and club making', issued by the National Assoication of Girls' Clubs, 1945. Also four small badges, one featuring an image of Marx, two with images of Lenin and one for the Eureka Youth League of Austalia.
Eureka Youth League (EYU), 1951-1970 (File) - Box 41
Miscellaneous papers. Includes an overview of the EYU prepared for the 14th Congress; submission to the NSW Youth Policy Advisory Committee (1961); and typed statements on various issues. Also two (black and white) photographs: one of a youth delegation in Warsaw, 1955 and a second unidentified (but with a numer of same individuals).
Photograph albums, c1940s and 50s (File) - Box 42
Five albums of black and white (mostly unidentified) photographs; items have been rehoused in folders with photocopy of original cover at the front of each folder. Photographs are primarily of international conferences, delegations and travel. Folder 1 includes photographs of: a World Federation of Democratic Youth meeting in Czechoslakia and related sports and other activities and travel by the Australian delegation (eg at Lidice, Terezin and Slovakia). Also (inside front cover) a photograph of Frances Damon, USA Treasurer of the World Federation of Democratic Youth, attending the World Youth Conference, 1945. Folder 2 includes family and personal photographs, as well as of international conference attendance. Photos of Frances Damon and Mavis Robertson (EYL leader) also included. Folder 3 includes personal and family photographs, including of Bert Williams (senior league official and Australian representative to the World Congress of Youth in London in 1945), and of EYL camp, other activities and conferences. Also includes photographs of trip to Europe and proceedings of World Congress of Youth as well as of World Federation of Democratic Youth in Prague 1947. Folders 4 and 5 in Box 43.
Photographs (File) - Box 43
Continuation of folders (Box 42), albums of black and white (mostly unidentified) photographs; items have been rehoused in folders with photocopy of original cover at the front of each folder). Folder 4 includes: postcards of Moscow (Mockba) and of international conferences, including A DISZ (Union of Working Youth) meeting in Hungary and Komonsol congress 1954. Folder 5 includes photographs of: rallies (eg re Vietnam War) and conferences (Australian and other delegations, speakers, associated events and travel). Includes assemblies in Moscow (International Union of Students) and Czechoslakia and the first German Meeting of the Youth (Deutschland Treffender Jugend) in Berlin 1950; photograph and post card of the Bermudas; and images of groups of young people at meetings and conferences. (Copies of further photoraphs in Folio Box 44.) Also includes Green folder (entitled Camp Eureka) containing camp related material including: paper on cultural activities; administration and organisational material; promotional leaflets; papers relating to proposed camp development and construction; newsletters; material on sporting activities and organisations; and journal of the Eureka Writers' Group. Large envelope (entitled EYL Photos) with photocopies of pages from album (1940s,50s and 60s) including: EYL camp, Christmas, sports and music activities; demonstrations and Peace carnival; and EYL conferences.
Photographs and Eureka Youth League (EYU), 1940s - 1960s (File) - Folio-Box 44
Large envelope (entitled EYL Photos) with photocopies of photographs (annotated) from an album (1940s,50s and 60s) including of: EYL camp, Christmas, sports and music activities; demonstrations. Papers relating to Summer Camps held by the EYU. Includes administrative papers; notes about activities; newsletters; brochures; song books; and flyers.
'Challenge', 1951-1956 (File) - Folio-Box 45
Copies of 'Challenge', the voice of Australian youth, newsletter published weekly by National Editorial Committee comprising representatives of EYL and related student, labour and socialist groups. Six packets by year: 1951 - Nov 14 (Vol1 No 1) to Xmas Issue (Vol 1 No5 (all issues); 1952 - Jan 23 to Xmas Issue, Vol 1, No 6 to 50 and Vol 2, No 1 to 3) (all issues); 1953 Jan 14 to Xmas Issue, Vol 2 No 4 to 50 and Vol3 No1); 1954 Jan 13 to Xmas Issue Vol13 No 2 to 49; 1955 Jan 26 to July , Vol 4 No 1 to 26; 1956 Feb 25, Vol 22 No 8 (single issue). Box also includes copies of Challenge A National Journal for Australian Youth (Sep to Dec 1955, Vol 5, No 1 to 4; Jan -Feb 1956).
Youth Voice (File) - Folio-Box 45
Copies of 'Youth Voice', The Young Workers' Fighting Paper, monthly publication of the EYL Victoria. Four packets: May 1946 (No1) to December 1946 (No8) (all issues); Feb 1947 (No9) to December 1947 (No 19) (all issues); Feb 1948 (No 20) to March 1948 (No21) and April 1948 (Vol2, No1) to December 1948/January 1949) (Vol2, No9) (all issues); February to April 1949 (Vol2, Nos 10 to 12), May, July and August 1949 (Vol 3, Nos 1 to 3, Oct and November/December 1949 (Nos 1 and 2); Feb to Oct 1950. December Vol1, No 14; and one issue June 1951 (Vol 2. No 3).
The Communist Review, 1935 - 1965 (File) - Folio-Box 45
Copies of articles from The Communist Review, the official organ of the CPA from 1934 to 1966. Includes two articles by Audrey Blake (a prominent political activist and organiser, leader of the Eureka Youth League in the 1940s and 1950s and its Youth Carnival for Peace and Friendship in 1952. Active in international socialist and youth organisations).
Jazz' Australia, 1980 (File) - Folio-Box 45
Issue 2, Dec 1980. Contains a reference to the first Jazz Convention held in the Eureka Youth League Hall, North Melbourne in 1946.
Draft typescript, 1980 (File) - Box 46
Typescript copy of Audrey Blake's 'Histories of Eureka Youth League'. Also paper by Blake, 'The Eureka Youth League' (handdated 1980). Blake was a prominent political activist and organiser, leader of the Eureka Youth League in the 1940s and 1950s and its Youth Carnival for Peace and Friendship in 1952. Active in international socialist and youth organisations).
Together with us', 2002 (File) - Box 46
Two copies of Blears' book 'Together with us' on the history of the Eureka Youth League 1920-1970, which was published in 2002. Also four A3 promotional posters.
Index cards (File) - Box 47
A group of alphabetical index cards, possibly relating to research by Blears for his book on the history of the EYU.
Youth Carnival for Peace and Friendship - administrative correspondence, 1951-1952 (File) - Box 47, Box 48, Box 49
Administrative correspondence relating to the coordination of the Youth Carnival for Peace and Friendship, held in Liverpool and Sydney, Mar 15-23, 1952. Organised by the National Executive of the EYL, the Carnival incorporated arts, dance, sports, politcal and social programs and events. It was opposed by the Menzies Government. Two lever arch folders of correspondence representing mail 'inwards' and 'outwards' have been decanted into smaller folders as the condition of the original lever arch files had deteroriated and also because the papers are fragile. An index to the arrangement of the correspondence within alphabetical dividers is located in the first folder of each group. The correspondence has been kept in the order in which it was originally filed.
Youth Carnival for Peace and Friendship - general correspondence, 1952 (File) - Box 50
General correspondence including relating to the organisation of the Carnival; international participation; sport and other programmes; and with the police/government concerning use of public areas.
Youth Carnival for Peace and Friendship, 1952 (File) - Box 50
Photographs, programs and ephemera relating to the Carnival. Photographs (black and white, unidentified) include; people, marches, events and sightseeing. They have been removed from original album (copy of cover included) and placed in blue folder.
Youth Carnival for Peace and Friendship, 1952 (File) - Box 51
Minutes of the National Committee meetings.
Eureka Youth League (EYU), 1958-1965 (File) - Box 51
National Council general and overseas correspondence and papers. Includes two letters from American folk singer and social activist, Peter Seeger (1962-1963).
Audio cassettes, 1979-1981 (File) - Box 51
Forty-two audio cassettes
NSW 4 - Paula Rix (Harrison) 17/10/1980, 17/10/1980 (Item NLA.MS-SAV009669) - Cassette-Box 487
1 item, G Tape 90, Compact cassette tape
NSW 5- Colin Cooper, 5A-Brian Rix. NSW 6 - Mary Mortimer (Item NLA.MS-SAV009670) - Cassette-Box 487
1 item, G Tape 90, Compact cassette tape
NSW 7 - Brian Ritchie, NSW 8 - Steve Johnson, NSW 9 - Hal Alexander (Item NLA.MS-SAV009671) - Cassette-Box 487
1 item, G Tape 90, Compact cassette tape
NSW 1 - Brian Dunnett 1979. NSW 10 - Kevin Butcher 25/11/1980, 1979, 1980 (Item NLA.MS-SAV009672) - Cassette-Box 487
1 item, BASF C60, Compact cassette tape
NSW 11 - Sandra Kessler (Johnson-Segal)28/11/1980. NSW 12 - Kath Olive(Bacon) Part 1, 01/12/1980. NSW 12 - Kath Olive(Bacon) Part 2, 1980 (Item NLA.MS-SAV009673) - Cassette-Box 487
1 item, G Tape 90, Compact cassette tape
NSW 12 - Kath Olive Part 3 02/12/1980. NSW 13 - Judy Munday Part 1 03/12/1980. NSW 14 - Jack Hughes 04/12/1980, 1980 (Item NLA.MS-SAV009674) - Cassette-Box 487
1 item, G Tape 90, Compact cassette tape
NSW 15 - Brian Aarons and Pat Healey Parts 1 and 2, 04/12/1980, 1980 (Item NLA.MS-SAV009675) - Cassette-Box 487
1 item, G Tape 90, Compact cassette tape
NSW 16 - Bill Callan Part 1 08/12/1980. NSW 16 - Bill Callan Part 2. NSW 17 - Barry Handa 08/12/1980, 1980 (Item NLA.MS-SAV009676) - Cassette-Box 487
1 item, G Tape 90, Compact cassette tape
NSW 18 - Rex Hewitt 10/12/1980. NSW 19 - Joyce Stevens Part 1 11/12/1980, 1980 (Item NLA.MS-SAV009677) - Cassette-Box 487
1 item, Pytrad C90, Compact cassette tape
NSW 19 Joyce Stevens Part 2. NSW 20 - Richard Walsham 12/12/1980. NSW 21 - John Gumshaw 12/12/1980, 1980 (Item NLA.MS-SAV009678) - Cassette-Box 488
1 item, Pytrad C90, Compact cassette tape
NSW 22 Don McDonald 12/12/1980. Q1 Brian Moyniham 13/12/1980 Parts 1 and 2. NSW 24 - Alan Anderson, 1980 (Item NLA.MS-SAV009679) - Cassette-Box 488
1 item, Pytrad C90, Compact cassette tape
NSW 23 - Ted Wiltshire 14/12/1980, 1980 (Item NLA.MS-SAV009680) - Cassette-Box 488
1 item, Pytrad C90, Compact cassette tape
NSW 25 - Wal Cunningham 18/12/1980. NSW 26 - Bert Williams. NSW 34 Clyde Singuh(?), 1980 (Item NLA.MS-SAV009681) - Cassette-Box 488
1 item, Pytrad C90, Compact cassette tape
NSW 28 - Laurie Aarons. NSW 29 - Bill Hortin Part 1 (Item NLA.MS-SAV009682) - Cassette-Box 488
1 item, Pytrad C90, Compact cassette tape
NSW 30 - Mavis Robertson Part 1. NSW 30 - Mavis Robertson Part 2 (Item NLA.MS-SAV009684) - Cassette-Box 488
1 item, Pytrad C90, Compact cassette tape
Vic 4 - Shirley Smith. Vic 5 - George Smith. Vic 6 - Nina Scott. Vic 7 - J. Halfpenny Part 1 (Item NLA.MS-SAV009686) - Cassette-Box 488
1 item, Pytrad C90, Compact cassette tape
Vic 16 - Geoff Coles. Vic 17 - Sol Gotlib. Vic 18 - Dick Curlewis Parts 1 and 2. Vic 19 - Joan Curlewis Part 1 (Item NLA.MS-SAV009687) - Cassette-Box 488
1 item, Pytrad C90, Compact cassette tapeJan Williams and Ella Marks (Vic)
Viv 22 - G Wathess (Tas 1). Vic 24 Karl Reid (Item NLA.MS-SAV009688) - Cassette-Box 488
1 item, Pytrad C90, Compact cassette tape
Vic 7 - J. Halfpenny part 2. Vic 8 - Colin Scott. Vic 9 Rivka Matthews. Vic 10 - Anne Pontikis. Vic 11 - Marie McIntyre(Wade). Vic 25 - Robyn Read(Russell) (Item NLA.MS-SAV009689) - Cassette-Box 488
1 item, Pytrad C90, Compact cassette tape
Vic 23-Tas 2 - Susan Edmunds. Tas 3 - Max Bound. Vic 35 - Lloyd Edmunds (Item NLA.MS-SAV009355) - Cassette-Box 489
1 item, Lancia C90, Compact cassette tape
Vic 1 - Marie Mill, Vic 3 - Pam ellis, Vic 26 - Ron Tilley. Vic 38 - Stan Johns (Item NLA.MS-SAV009356) - Cassette-Box 489
1 item, G Tape 90, Compact cassette tape
Vic 36 - Julie O'Brien. Vic 37 - Lindsay O'Brien. Vic 39 - Biren Oke Part 1. Vic 39 Brien Oke Part 2 (Item NLA.MS-SAV009359) - Cassette-Box 489
1 item, G Tape 90, Compact cassette tape
SA 1 - John Cook August 1981. SA 2 - Judy Gillet. SA 3 - Bill Gillet August 1981, 1981 (Item NLA.MS-SAV009361) - Cassette-Box 489
1 item, G Tape 90, Compact cassette tape
SA 4 - - Ken O'Neill. SA 5 - David Fisher. SA 6 - Lionel and Nardine Bridge August 1981. SA 7 - George H. SA 8 - Hal and Sadie Pritchard August 1981., 1981 (Item NLA.MS-SAV009362) - Cassette-Box 489
1 item, G Tape 90, Compact cassette tape
SA 9 - Eulalie tapp(Bach). SA 11 - Arthur Shertock. SA 12 - Pat Flintoff. SA 14 - Dawn Sendy (Item NLA.MS-SAV009363) - Cassette-Box 489
1 item, G Tape 90, Compact cassette tape
WA 2 - Julie Hatter(nee Marks), 04/09/1980 Perth. WA - 1 Vic Slater 03/09/1980, 1980 (Item NLA.MS-SAV009365) - Cassette-Box 489
1 item, G Tape 90, Compact cassette tape
WA 3 - -Rivo Gandini, Perth 06/09/1980. WA 4 - Norm Lacey 06/09/1980, 1980 (Item NLA.MS-SAV009366) - Cassette-Box 495
1 item, G Tape 90, Compact cassette tape
WA 6 - Geoff Davis 13/09/1980. WA 5- Chas Busland 11/09/1980, Perth, 1980 (Item NLA.MS-SAV009367) - Cassette-Box 495
1 item, G Tape 90, Compact cassette tape
Dennis Fienny interview 1985, 1985 (Item NLA.MS-SAV009368) - Cassette-Box 495
1 item, TDK SA C90, Compact cassette tape
Mavis Robertson, Paddy Georges. Audrey Blake, Barrie Blears, Don McDonald, 1981, 1981 (Item NLA.MS-SAV009370) - Cassette-Box 495
1 item, G Tape 90, Compact cassette tape
Consumerism. EYL., 1980 (Item NLA.MS-SAV009371) - Cassette-Box 495
1 item, G Tape 90, Compact cassette tapeTalk given at Camp Eureka