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Collection Summary

Creator
Andrew Reeves
Title
Papers of Andrew Reeves
Date Range
1857-1999
Collection Number
MS 8076, MS Acc04.305
Extent
9.78 metres (57 boxes, 10 folio packets, 4 cartons)
Language of Materials
English
Repository
National Library of Australia

Introduction

Scope and Contents

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.

Conditions Governing Access

Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2120042).

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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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 Andrew Reeves, National Library of Australia, MS 8076 [class number, box number and series and/or file number]'.

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.

Personal Papers of Andrew Reeves are held at MS 9554.

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

Arrangement

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

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

Separated Materials

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.

Bibliography

'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)

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.

Item Descriptions

Class MS 8076. Original consignment

Comprises 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 University 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. Material contained in the collection includes 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.

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.

Anarchism (File 1) - Box 1
University of Melbourne- Democratic control and university reform, 1971-72 (File 2) - Box 1
University of Melbourne- Exclusion (File 3) - Box 1
University of Melbourne- Labor Club, ISKRA (File 4) - Box 1
University of Melbourne- Right-wing student broadsheets (File 5) - Box 1
University of Melbourne Socialist Club (File 6) - Box 1
University of Melbourne- Student activism (File 7) - Box 1
University of Melbourne- Student broadsheets (i) (File 8-9) - Box 1
Various University of Melbourne student broadsheets, 1970-73 (File 10) - Box 1
Students for a Democratic Society - later Radical Action Movement (i) (File 11-12) - Box 2
Students for a Democratic Society - later Radical Action Movement - Catch 22, 1970-74 (File 13-14) - Box 2
Universities- Australian Union of Students - education reform, cultural journals (File 15-16) - Box 2
The vulgar Marxist (File 17) - Box 2

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 files of collected May Day material.

Anti-communist publications, 1971-73 (File 1-2) - Box 3
Anti-French nuclear testing, 1974 (File 3) - Box 3
Anti-Nazi agitation, 1972-74 (File 4) - Box 3
Anti-Omega, n.d (File 5) - Box 3
Anti-Springbok tours, 1970-71 (File 6) - Box 3
Anti-US bases, 1973 (File 7) - Box 3
A.L.P. (Vic.), 1972-74 (File 8) - Box 3
Neil Collingburn, n.d (File 9) - Box 3
Environmentalism, 1972-75 (File 10-11) - Box 3
Gay liberation, n.d (File 12) - Box 3
May Day, 1899-1932 (File 13) - Box 3
May Day, 1970 (File 14) - Box 3
May Day, 1971 (File 15) - Box 3
May Day, 1972 (File 16) - Box 3
May Day, 1973 (File 17) - Box 3
May Day, 1974 (File 18) - Box 3
May Day, 1975 (File 19) - Box 3
May Day, 1977 (File 20) - Box 4
May Day, 1978-99 (File 21) - Box 4
July 4th demonstration, n.d (File 22) - Box 4
Pensioners, n.d (File 23) - Box 4
Protect Victoria Market, n.d (File 24) - Box 4
Public health, 1973 (File 25) - Box 4
Secondary students political activism, 1968-73 (File 26) - Box 4
Unemployed, n.d (File 27) - Box 4
Uranium and nuclear disarmament, 1986-88 (File 28) - Box 4
Women's liberation, 1973 (File 29-30) - Box 4
Young Labor Association, Victoria, University of Melbourne A.L.P. Club, 1970-74 (File 31) - Box 4

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.

Afghanistan, n.d (File 1) - Box 5
Africa, 1971-89 (File 2) - Box 5
Bangladesh, 1971 (File 3) - Box 5
Britain, 1948 (File 4) - Box 5
Chile, n.d (File 5) - Box 5
China/Asia, 1932-54 (File 6) - Box 5
Croatia, 1972 (File 7) - Box 5
East Timor, 1977-91 (File 8) - Box 5
Germany, 1974 (File 9) - Box 5
Greece, 1975 (File 10) - Box 5
Indonesia, 1952 (File 11) - Box 5
Ireland, 1973-75 (File 12) - Box 5
Iran, n.d (File 13) - Box 5
Palestine, 1971-75 (File 14-15) - Box 5
Papua New Guinea, n.d (File 16) - Box 5
Spain, 1972-75 (File 17) - Box 5
Other international, 1972-92 (File 18) - Box 5

Series 4. Maoism, 1970-76

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

Maoism - Australian-China Society, 1973-74 (File 1) - Box 6
Maoism - Communist Party of Australia (Marxist Leninist), 1974 (File 2) - Box 6
Maoism - Independence voice, 1974-76 (File 3) - Box 6
Maoism at Monash, La Trobe Universities, 1973-75 (File 4-5) - Box 6
Maoism - Worker Student Alliance, 1970-73 (File 6-7) - Box 6

Series 5. Trotskyism, c.1930-75

Trotskyism - Australasian Spartacist, 1973-75 (File 1) - Box 6
Trotskyism - ban on ligue Comministe (France), n.d (File 2) - Box 6
Trotskyism - Communist League, 1974 (File 3) - Box 6
Trotskyism - Hard lines, 1973-74 (File 4) - Box 6
Trotskyism - Socialist Labour League, Socialist perspective, Socialist Workers Action Group, 1974 (File 5) - Box 7
Trotskyism - Socialist Youth Alliance (later: Socialist Workers Party), 1971-74 (File 6-8) - Box 7
Trotskyism - Workers' Party of Australia, Leninist League of Victoria, 1930s (File 9) - Box 7
Tocsin, 1971 (File 10) - Box 7

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.

Anti-conscription, 1969-72 (File 1-2) - Box 7
Draft resistance, 1970-72 (File 3-6) - Box 7, 8
General anti-war material, 1967-73 (File 7-8) - Box 8
Vietnam Moratorium, May 1970 (File 9-10) - Box 8
Vietnam Moratorium, September 1970 (File 11) - Box 8
Vietnam Moratorium, April/June 1971 (File 12) - Box 9
Vietnam Moratorium, December 1971, April 1972, March 1974 (File 13) - Box 9
American cuttings and anti-war material, 1966-67 including a peace march apron (File 14) - Box 9

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
Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union, 1972-74 (4 files) (File 1-4) - Box 9

Includes a painted banner for 'Labor Day for retired workers'

Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners, 1916-46 (File 5) - Box 10

Proposition form, circular and entrance book

Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation (Western District), 1928 (File 6) - Box 10

Unemployment relief registers

Australasian Meat Industry Employees' Union (Queensland Branch), 1944-75 (File 7-10) - Box 10

Ballot papers, picnic programs, photographs and other papers

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 (File 11) - Box 11
ACTU Congress papers, 1945 ( 2 files) (File 12-13) - Box 11
ACTU circulars and minutes, 1949 (File 14) - Box 11
ACTU, 1955-66 (File 15) - Box 11
ACTU, 1981-1990s (File 16) - Box 11
Australian Railways Union leaflets, publications, audio tape and other papers, 1932-86 (4 files) (File 17-20) - Box 11, 12
"Working Lives" The Australian Railways Union 1920-1986 (N.S.W. Branch) [cassette tape], 1987 (Item) - Piece NLA.MS-SAV000387
1 item
Australian Theatrical and Amusement Employees Association, 1945-78 (File 21-22) - Box 12
Australian Tramway and Motor Omnibus Employees Association, 1940-62 (File 23) - Box 12
Australian Workers' Union - Amalgamated Workers' Union tickets, 1892-1903; AWU tickets and levies (1906-31) and correspondence, reports and other papers, 1923-44 (File 24) - Box 12
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) (File 25) - Box 12
AWU- correspondence and other papers including papers relating to the SA pastoral workers' dispute (1943-50) (File 26) - Box 12
AWU- Workers' tickets (1951-74) and other papers, 1963-91 (File 27) - Box 13
AWU, 1992 including WA election campaign buttons, t-shirt and rally leaflets (File 28-29) - Box 13
Ballarat Eight Hours Anniversary Committee, 1883-1935 (9 files) (File 30-38) - Box 13, 14

Includes ledgers, minute books and correspondence

Barrier Ranges Engine Drivers' Firemen's Association (File 39) - Box 15
Builders Labourers' Federation (both Gallagher and Mundey factions), 1973-87 (3 files) (File 40-42) - Box 15
Building Workers' Industrial Union of Australia State Conference agenda, 1947 (File 43) - Box 15
BWIU- correspondence of the Vice President, H.T. Scattergood, 1946-48 (File 44) - Box 15
BWIU conference papers, 1946-51 (File 45) - Box 16
BWIU papers including Federal Conference papers, 1951-59 (File 46-48) - Box 16
BWIU, 1960-69 (File 49-50) - Box 16
BWIU, 1970-87 and undated papers (File 51-52) - Box 17
Building Workers' Industrial Union of Australia (Queensland Branch), 1947-64 (File 53-54) - Box 17
Clerks' Union Reform Group - Clerk dagger, 1973-74 (File 55) - Box 17
Combined Union Action, n.d (File 56) - Box 17
Friendly Trade Society of Ironmoulders annual reports, 1890-97 (File 56) - Box 17
Maritime Unionists Socialist Activities Association, 1984-85 (File 57) - Box 17
Miners' Federation of Australia, 1931-54 (File 58) - Box 18
National Union of Railwaymen, [1930s] (File 59) - Box 18
Operative Painters and Decorators' Union of Australia, 1903-60 (File 60-61) - Box 18

Correspondence and election material

Plumbers and Gasfitters Employees' Union, 1915-46 (File 62) - Box 18

Includes correspondence

Trades and Labour Council of Queensland, 1946-67 (File 63) - Box 18
TLCQ- Aboriginal rights, 1962-80 (File 64) - Box 18
TLCQ- Communist Party of Australia (North Queensland), 1961-64 (File 65) - Box 19
TLCQ- Mt Isa mines lock out, 1961-65 (File 66) - Box 19
TLCQ- North Queensland regional trade union conferences, 1957-66 (File 67) - Box 19
TLCQ- North Queensland Trade Union Rank File Convention for Security (Townsville, 28-29 Nov. 1953 (File 68-69) - Box 19
TLCQ- Peace (including Townsville Peace Committee for International Co-operation and Disarmament, 1963-65 (File 70) - Box 19
TLCQ- 'The case for £2 increase to the Queensland basic wage…', hearing in the Industrial court of Queensland, 22 Mar. 1954 (File 71) - Box 20
United Furniture Trades Industrial Union of Workers, 1929. Leadlight Designers' award. Transcript of notes of proceedings before the Industrial Board, Perth, WA (File 72) - Box 20
Vehicle Builders' Union, 1957-69 (File 73) - Box 20
Victorian Operative Bricklayers' Society (No. 3 Branch, Ballarat) letterbook, 1889-1893 (File 74) - Box 20
Victorian Trades Hall Council- microfilm of minute books, 1877-1893 (File 75) - Box 20
Victorian Trades Hall Council, 1904-37 (File 76) - Box 20
Victorian Trades Hall Council Labor Papers Committee minutes, 1921-23 (File 77) - Box 20
Victorian Trades Hall Council, 1940s (File 78) - Box 21
Victorian Trades Hall Council, 1950s (File 79) - Box 21
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 (File 80-84) - Box 21, 22
Victorian Trades Hall Council- Australian Timber Workers' Union, 1967-70 (File 85) - Box 22
Melbourne Trades Hall Council split, 1967; Exposé of right wing in the 1963-64 Melbourne Trades Hall Council dispute; Equal pay, 1965-69 (File 86) - Box 22
Victorian Trades Hall Council, 1970s (File 87) - Box 22
Victorian Trades Hall Council- occupational health and safety, 1981-86 (File 88) - Box 22
Victorian Trades Hall Council, 1980s and 1990s (File 89) - Box 22
Victorian Trades Hall Council- miscellaneous, n.d (File 90) - Box 22
Victorian Tramways Union, 1971 (File 91) - Box 22
Waterside Workers' Federation- Sydney South Coast Branches, 1926-39 (File 92) - Box 23
Waterside Workers' Federation Federal Committee of Management minutes, 1939-43 ( 5 files) (File 93-97) - Box 23
Waterside Workers' Federation minimum wage reports, 1939-51 (File 98) - Box 23
Waterside Workers' Federation Sydney Branch, 1940-49 (File 99) - Box 24
Waterside Workers' Federation Sydney Branch, 1943-52 (File 100) - Box 24
Waterside Workers' Federation Sydney Branch (mainly), 1943-58 (File 101) - Box 24
Waterside Workers' Federation Sydney Branch, 1951-58 (File 102) - Box 24
Waterside Workers' Federation Sydney Branch, 1967-78 including Women's Committee (1968-71) (File 103) - Box 24
Waterside Workers' Federation Sydney Branch, 1987-91 undated material including badges (File 104) - Box 24
Waterside Workers' Federation Melbourne Branch, 1920-76; Brisbane Branch, 1989 (File 105) - Box 24
Waterside Workers' Federation- Port Adelaide and Port Pirie, 1915-82 (File 106) - Box 24
Waterside Workers' Federation- Western Australia, 1920-92 (File 107) - Box 24
Waterside Workers' Federation- Hurley Case including Hobart Branch correspondence, 1956-59 (File 108) - Box 25
Waterside Workers' Federation- NZ waterfront dispute, 1951 (File 109) - Box 25
West Australian Shearers' and Shed Workers' Union of Workers, 1930-31 (File 110) - Box 25
Zinc Workers' Union, 1937-53 (File 111) - Box 25
Subseries 2. Geographical sequence, 1857-1999
Trade unions: Australian Capital Territory, 1984-85 (File 1) - Box 25
Trade unions: international- Scandinavian publications (File 2) - Box 25
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 (File 3) - Box 26
Trade unions: international- World Trade Union Conference (5th: Moscow, 4-15 Dec. 1961) (File 4) - Box 26
Trade unions: international, 1901-91 (File 5) - Folio-Box 1

(Includes 1 folio item: The Scottish worker, 10-15 May 1926)

Trade unions: New South Wales, 1892-1927 (File 6) - Box 26
Trade unions: New South Wales, 1936-49 (File 7) - Box 26
Trade unions: New South Wales, 1952-58 (File 8) - Box 26
Trade unions: New South Wales, 1955-64 (building trade unions) (File 9) - Box 27
Trade unions: New South Wales, 1966-79 (File 10) - Box 27
Trade unions: New South Wales, 1983-91 (File 11) - Box 27
Trade unions: Northern Territory, 1955-85 (File 12) - Box 27
Trade unions: Queensland, 1887-1927 (File 13) - Box 27
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 (File 14) - Box 27
Trade unions: Queensland, 1931-39. Relates to the newspapers The Daily Standard, The Worker and Labour Daily (File 15) - Box 28
Trade unions: Queensland- Labour Daily Newspaper Company, 1940 (File 16) - Box 28
Trade unions: Queensland, 1943-61 including a file on Collinsville (File 17) - Box 28
Trade unions: Queensland, 1962-89 (File 18) - Box 28
Trade unions: South Australia, 1872-1991 (File 19) - Box 28
Trade unions: South Australia, 1971. Cuttings relating to mining and metal trades (File 20) - Box 28
Trade unions: Tasmania, 1973 (File 21) - Box 29
Trade unions: Victoria, 1857-1919 (File 22-24) - Box 29
Trade unions: Victoria, 1910-29 (File 25) - Box 29
Trade unions: Victoria- One Big Union, 1913-23 (File 26) - Box 29
Trade unions: Victoria, 1930-39 (File 27) - Box 29
Trade unions: Victoria- pamphlets relating to strikes or union claims, 1933-58 (File 28) - Box 30
Trade unions: Victoria, 1941-48 (File 29) - Box 30
Trade unions: Victoria, 1950-67 (File 30) - Box 30
Trade unions: Victoria, 1970-79 (File 31) - Box 30
Trade unions: Victoria, 1980-89 (2 files) (File 32-33) - Box 30
Trade unions: Victoria, 1990-99 (File 34) - Box 30
Trade unions: Victoria, undated (File 35) - Box 30
Trade unions: Western Australia, 1900-49 (File 36) - Box 31
Trade unions: Western Australia, 1931-41 (File 37) - Box 31
Trade unions: Western Australia, 1954-67 (File 38) - Box 31
Trade unions: Western Australia, 1990-97 (File 39) - Box 31
Trade unions: Western Australia, 1996 (File 40) - Box 31
Subseries 3. Chronological sequence, 1903-1990s
Trade unions: miscellaneous, 1903-18 (File 1) - Box 31
Cuttings on millers, 1917-21 (File 2) - Box 31
Trade unions: miscellaneous, 1918-30 (including Labor Papers) (File 3) - Box 32
Cuttings book on labour movement, 1919-26 (File 4) - Box 32
Trade unions: miscellaneous, 1930-38 (File 5) - Box 32
Trade unions: miscellaneous, 1942-49 (File 6) - Box 32
Cuttings book, 1947-54 (File 7) - Box 32
Cuttings, 1948 (File 8) - Box 33
Trade unions: miscellaneous, 1951-59 (File 9) - Box 33
Trade unions: miscellaneous, 1960-79 (File 10-11) - Box 33
Trade unions: miscellaneous, 1980s (File 12) - Box 33
Trade unions: miscellaneous, 1990s (File 13) - Box 33
Trade unions: miscellaneous, undated (File 14) - Box 34
Trade union badges, stamps and other realia (File 15) - Box 34
Subseries 4. Papers of A.C. Williams, 1887-1975
Legislation, reports, cuttings, photographs, minutes and other papers of A.C. Williams, Secretary of the Ballarat Trades and Labor Council (File 1-5)

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.

Student politics (La Trobe University)/Communist Party of Australia, 1972-79 (4 files) (File 1-4) - Box 36
Communist Party of Australia, 1972-76. Includes Victorian State Conference papers, May 1976 (File 5) - Box 36
National Communist Student Conference and National Students Meeting, 1975-79 (File 6) - Box 36
Environmentalism, 1979 (File 7) - Box 36
CPA, 1977 (File 8) - Box 37
CPA, 1978 (File 9) - Box 37
CPA, 1979 (File 10) - Box 37
CPA 26th Congress (Sydney, June 1979) (File 11) - Box 37
CPA, 1979-84 (File 12) - Box 37
CPA, 1980 (File 13) - Box 37
CPA, 1981 (File 14) - Box 37
CPA Industrial Activists School, 17-18 October 1981 (File 15) - Box 38
ALP Socialist Left, 1981-86 (File 16) - Box 38
CPA, 1982-83 (File 17) - Box 38
ALP Victorian State Conference, October 1984 (File 18) - Box 38
CPA, 1984-86 (File 19) - Box 38
Miscellaneous CPA papers, n.d (File 20-21) - Box 38
Communist publications, 1919-82 (File 22) - Box 39
Preston and Northcote newspaper, 1980 (File 23) - Box 39
Local activities, Northcote/Preston, 1977-80 (File 24) - Box 39
Northcote, 1974-80 (File 25) - Box 40
Australian Labor Party, 1973-85 (File 26) - Box 40
Northern news business plan, 1985 (File 27) - Box 40
Miscellaneous papers, 1972-84 (2 files) (File 28-29) - Box 40

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.

Pre CPA, Marxism, Socialism, 1919-21 (File 1) - Box 41
CPA, 1920-29. Includes pamphlet 'The Communist Party of Australia', dating from c.1920 and containing the CPA's initial declaration of aims (File 2) - Box 41
Excerpts from The Communist, 1922-23 and Workers' weekly, 1929 (File 3) - Box 41
Tea towels depicting the front page of The Communist, 27 April 1923 (File 4) - Box 41
CPA, 1930-34 (File 5) - Box 41
CPA publications, 1931-35 (File 6) - Box 41
CPA, 1933-39 (File 7) - Box 41
CPA popular front, 1934-39 (File 8) - Box 41
CPA Sept. 1939 to illegality (File 9) - Box 41
CPA under illegality, 1940-42 (File 10) - Box 41
CPA illegality- Australia-Soviet Friendship; aid to Russia, 1941 (File 11) - Box 41
CPA illegality- Political Rights Committee, 1942 (File 12) - Box 41
CPA, 1943-49 (File 13-14) - Box 41
CPA Victoria- Country voice, 1944-45 (File 15) - Box 41
CPA education and study courses, post 1945 (File 16) - Box 41
Indonesian independence, 1945-46 (File 17) - Box 41
CPA Dissolution Bill; referendum; Hollway Crimes Act (Vic.), 1948-53 (File 18) - Box 41
Eureka Youth League, 1948-61 (File 19) - Box 42
L.L Sharkey's trial and gaoling, 1949 (File 20) - Box 42
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 (File 21) - Box 42
Leaflets, 1952-56 (File 22) - Box 42
Sugar, 1953 (File 23) - Box 42
Petrov affair, 1954-55 (File 24) - Box 42
Party builder, 1955-58 (File 25) - Box 42
Australia-Soviet Friendship Society, 1956 (File 26) - Box 42
CPA 'The Stalin Question', Tribune, 1956 (File 27) - Box 42
CPA job bulletins, 1956-62 (File 28) - Box 42
Brisbane Guardian, 1957 (File 29) - Box 42
Crimes Act campaign, c.1958-61 (File 30) - Box 42
CPA pamphlets, 1950s (File 31) - Box 42
CPA, 1960-68 (File 32) - Box 43
CPA Rank and file circular (Vic), Maoist rank and file, 1962-63 (File 33) - Box 43
Socialist Party of Australia post 1970/71 CPA breakaway (File 34) - Box 43
CPA, 1970-79 (File 35) - Box 43
CPA, 1980-88 (File 36) - Box 43
CPA, undated (File 37) - Box 43

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 (files 1-8) and other collected ALP paper, arranged chronologically (files 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.

Dave McKee Papers, 1958-59 (File 1) - Box 43
ALP South Australian Branch, 1965-68 (File 2) - Box 43
ALP South Australian Branch, 1969-70 (File 3) - Box 43
ALP South Australian Branch, 1971 (2 files) (File 4-5) - Box 44
ALP South Australian Branch, 1972 (File 6) - Box 44
ALP South Australian Branch, 1973 (File 7) - Box 44
ALP South Australian Branch, 1974 (File 8) - Box 44
ALP, 1914-24 (File 9) - Box 44
Court transcripts (High Court of Australia) of case Australian Labor Party Victorian Central Executive v. Edmond John Hogan, 1934 (File 10) - Box 44
ALP, 1928-44 including CPA applications for ALP affiliation (File 11) - Box 45
ALP, 1934-58 (File 12) - Box 45
ALP, 1930-49 (file maintained by J.M. Galvin, General Secretary, Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen) (File 13) - Box 45
ALP, 1940-50 (2 files) (File 14-15) - Box 45
Papers on referenda (1944-73) (File 16) - Box 45
ALP, 1950-59 (File 17) - Box 45
ALP, 1960-69 (File 18) - Box 46
ALP, 1970-93 (File 19) - Box 46
Undated ALP papers (File 20) - Box 46

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.

Correspondence, Socialist Party of Australia (SPA) to Socialist Party of Great Britain (SPGB), 1932-37 (File 1) - Box 46
Correspondence, SPGB to SPA, 1932-38 (File 2) - Box 46
Copies of correspondence between SPGB and the Workers' Socialist Party of the United States of America (WSPUSA), 1941-42 (File 3) - Box 46
Copy of letter SPGB to Socialist Party of Canada (SPC) and WSPUSA, July 1942 (File 4) - Box 46
SPGB Press Cuttings Department letters to SPA, n.d (File 5) - Box 46
SPGB- financial statements, 1932-34 (File 6) - Box 46
SPGB Executive Committee meetings, 1924-39 (File 7) - Box 46
SPGB Annual Conference, 1933-34 (File 8) - Box 46
SPGB 1932 propaganda report; 1932 Editorial Committee report (File 9) - Box 46
SPGB notes for writers; Central Branch newsletter, 1932 (File 10) - Box 46
SPGB photographs, c. 1940-41 (File 11) - Box 46
SPGB printed handbills, 1931-33 (File 12) - Box 46
SPGB miscellaneous, 1931 (File 13) - Box 46
Correspondence, SPA to SPC, 1933-38 (File 14) - Box 46
Correspondence, SPC to SPA, 1933-38 (File 15) - Box 46
Correspondence relating to 'The Canadian dispute', 1935-37 (File 16) - Box 46
SPC publications, 1932-36 (File 17) - Box 47
Report of the 4th annual conference, WSPUSA, Dec. 1934 (File 18) - Box 47
Correspondence between WSPUSA and SPA, 1934-35 (File 19) - Box 47
Correspondence between SPA and Socialist Party of New Zealand (SPNZ), 1932-34 (File 20) - Box 47
Socialist Party of Australia, c. 1940-48 (File 21) - Box 47
Militant Socialist international, 1945 (File 22) - Box 47

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.

Conference papers, 1925 (File 1-2) - Box 47
Report of the Director, 1925 (File 3) - Box 47
League of Nations and International Labour Office publications, 1919-25 (File 4) - Box 48
Provisional record, no. 1-29, 1925 (File 5) - Box 48

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

Annual Conference minutes of the Association.

Minutes, 1963 (File 1) - Box 48
Minutes, 1964 (File 2) - Box 48
Minutes, 1965 (File 3) - Box 48
Minutes, 1966 (File 4) - Box 48
Minutes, 1967 (File 5) - Box 49
Minutes, 1968 (File 6) - Box 49
Minutes, 1969 (File 7) - Box 49
Minutes, 1970 (File 8) - Box 49
Minutes, 1971 (File 9) - Box 49
Minutes, 1972 (File 10) - Box 49
Minutes, 1973 (File 11) - Box 49
Minutes, 1974 (File 12) - Box 49
Minutes, 1975 (File 13) - Box 49
Minutes, 1976 (File 14) - Box 50
Minutes, 1977 (File 15) - Box 50
Minutes, 1978 (File 16) - Box 50
Minutes, 1979 (File 17) - Box 50
Minutes, 1980 (File 18) - Box 50

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.

Beverley Farmers' Cooperative, 1920-93 (File 1-2) - Box 50
Central Southern District Council minute book, 1931-50 (File 3) - Box 50
Collie Industrial Co-operative Society reports and balance sheets, 1956-60 (File 4) - Box 51
Co-operative Federation of Western Australia, 1919-71 (File 5-6) - Box 51
Co-operative Wholesale Services report and balance sheet, 1955 (File 7) - Box 51
Cunderin Farmers Co-operative Company, 1946-87 (File 8) - Box 51
Denmark Co-operative Company, 1960-92 (File 9) - Box 51
Mount Barker Co-operative, 1939-94 (File 10-13) - Box 51, 52
Westralian Farmers, 1921-56 (File 14) - Box 52
Other co-operatives, 1956-94 (File 15) - Box 52
Other papers on co-operatives, 1896-1990 (File 16) - Box 52
Publications and photographs, 1984-95 (File 17) - Box 52

Series 15. Photographs, 1888-c. 1978

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

Photographic plate depicting conference of delegates of the Shearers' Union held in Echuca, March 7 1888 (File 1) - Box 52
1891 Shearers' strike (File 2) - Box 52
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) (File 3) - Folio-Box 1
Australian Meat Employees Industrial Union Queensland Branch, c.1910-20? (File 4) - Box 53
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 (File 5) - Box 53
South Australian Waterside Workers' Federation, 1920s (File 6) - Box 53
South Australian Federated Operative Bakers' Union, 1923-26 and Perth Federated Operative Bakers' Union, 1912 (File 7) - Box 53
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? (File 8) - Box 53
Album of photographs of a trip to Russia, 1959 (File 9) - Box 53
Waterside Workers' Federation, 1950s and 1960s (File 10) - Box 53
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, c. 1978 (File 11) - Box 54
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) (File 12) - Folio-Box 1
Negatives, n.d (File 13) - Box 54

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.

Communist Party of Australia (File 1) - Map-Folio Map Cabinets
Trade unions (File 2) - Map-Folio Map Cabinets
Australian Labor Party (File 3) - Map-Folio Map Cabinets
Vietnam War (File 4) - Map-Folio Map Cabinets
International politics (File 5) - Map-Folio Map Cabinets
Music and drama events (File 6) - Map-Folio Map Cabinets
Miscellaneous (File 7) - Map-Folio Map Cabinets

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.

Other collected papers, 1887-1926 including Political Labour Council of Victoria, 1903-13 (File 1) - Box 54
Western Australian Cine-Electro Social Club, 1930-31 (File 2) - Box 54
Cutting book, 1931-34 (File 3) - Box 54
Victorian Council Against War and Fascism; National Movement Against War; 'Peace and Democracy' Campaign, 1931-39 (File 4) - Box 54
Australian Council for Civil Liberties, 1937-39 (File 5) - Box 54
Other collected papers, 1938-43 (File 6) - Box 54
Cutting books, 1940-41 (2 files) (File 7-8) - Box 55
Workers' Literature bureau, 1943-48 (File 9) - Box 55
'Opinion: in the matter of Stamps Act' Maurice Blackburn and Co, June 1948 (File 10) - Box 55
Economic Society of Australian and New Zealand, 1949-54 (File 11) - Box 55
Other collected papers, 1950-67 (File 12) - Box 55
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 (File 13) - Box 55
Rupert Lockwood 'Australia's shipping problem', c. 1961-62 (File 14) - Box 56
Other collected papers, 1971-78 (File 15) - Box 56
Other collected papers, 1970s (File 16) - Box 56
'Tasmania- federal intervention'. Report by F.W. Nicol, 1971 (File 17) - Box 56
Peace, 1977-84 (File 18) - Box 56
Other collected papers, 1983-89 (File 19) - Box 56
Other collected papers, 1990-97 (File 20) - Box 57
Ephemera (WA), c. 1996 (File 21) - Box 57
Other collected papers (undated) 2 files (File 22-23) - Box 57
Aboriginal flag (File 24) - Folio-Box 1

Class MS Acc04-305. Consignment added 2004

Comprises trade union reports, directories and circulars, including bound issues of Boilermakers' Society of Australia quarterly reports, newspapers including issues of The Vanguard and The Militant, ephemera on the 1975 election and miscellaneous trade union pamphlets.


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