Guide to the Records of the National Council for Civil Liberties (as filmed by the AJCP)

New Zealand, 1943 - 1961 (File DCL 11/6)

Correspondence, press cuttings, printed material, memoranda and notes re civil rights in New Zealand, Cook Islands, Niue.

Includes: Human Rights: official bulletin of Human Rights Organisation, Wellington. April, May, July 1953; June 1954; Frank Longstone, NZ Liberty 1951. (printed); New Zealand Freedom Association pamphlets (printed); W J Scott, Civil Liberties in NZ. New Zealand Council for Civil Liberties, 1951. (printed); Judgement in 'Lolita' case, 1960. Australia-New Zealand Civil Liberties Society. Report on Niue Islanders case. 1953. (blurred carbon typescript)

Memorandum on New Zealand Police Offences Amendment Bill. [1951] (Blurred carbon typescript).

Correspondents include: Alex McLeod (London); F G Morris (NZ Council for Civil Liberties, Wellington); Margaret Brand (Human Rights Organisation, Wellington); T Clifton Webb (Minister of Island Territories, Wellington); R Armstrong (Democratic Rights Council, Auckland); Roy K Sharp (Auckland); Helen Smith (Wellington); Bruce Paton (Christchurch); R M Algie (New Zealand Freedom Association, Auckland).

c405p

Australia Suppression of Communism, 1951 (File DCL 49/3)

Comprises: L J McPhillips. A weapon against the workers. Compulsory arbitration in Australia. World Trade Union Movement Journal. 5 Feb 1951. (off print)

A Bill for an Act To Provide for the disolution of the Australian Communist Party and of other communist organisations to disquality communists from holding certain offices and for other purposes connected therewith. (Duplicated typescript copy)

20p

Australian Council for Civil Liberties, 1949 - 1952 (File DCL 56/3)

Correspondence, publications and notes from Australian Council for Civil Liberties, Melbourne.

Publications include: Brian Fitzpatrick, The Unnecessary Police State Bill. A.C.C.L. 1950; Award on the Referendum to Responsible Citizens. 1951; Civil Liberty Vol 10 no. 1, November 1949.

Correspondence between Brian Fitzpatrick (General Secretary, A.C.C.L., Melbourne) and N.C.C.L., London re 'security' legislation in Dominions; Public Entertainments Bill in Victoria; Australian Communist Party.

89p

Australia. Democratic Rights Council, 1950 - 1955 (File DCL 56/4)

Correspondence, publications and notes from Democratic Rights Council, Sydney.

Publications include: A Charter of Freedom: report on conference for Democratic Rights, Melbourne, 1950; Invitation to Australian People's Assembly for Human Rights. Melbourne, n.d.; It Has Happened Here: Dismissal of Dr P R James. n.d.

Correspondence between Harold Rich (Secretary DRC, Sydney); V J A O'Connor (DRC, Melbourne); R F Riddiford (Melbourne) and NCCL, London re defunct state of DRC; campaign against Communist party disolution; use of public halls for meetings; rights of Indigenous Australians.

c55p

Australia. General, 1950 - 1957 (File DCL 56/5)

Correspondence, press cuttings and notes re civil liberties in Australia.

Subjects include: censorship, migration, espionage, Australian Communist Party.

Correspondents include: C Gibson (Agent General Office, W.A.); S J Dempsey (Acting Chief Migration Officer, Australia House). Doris Blackburn (Australia House); J Newbury (Melbourne).

c56p

Australia-New Zealand Society, 1951 - 1955 (File DCL 56/6)

Correspondence, memoranda and publications from Australia and New Zealand Civil Liberties Society, London.

Correspondents include: R Marmach (Secretary); F Levitas (London); R Westagate (London).

Includes: Annual Reports, Bulletin no. 3, 1953; no. 2, 1952; Draft Constitution.

Subjects include: Indigenous Australians; civil rights bodies in Australia; passport confiscation; New Zealand Police Offences Amendments Bill.

100p

Australian Aboriginals, 1954 - 1959 (File DCL 56/7)

Correspondence, press cuttings and memoranda on Indigenous Australians, especially in Western Australia and Woomera.

Includes: Western Australia. Report of Select Committee…Native Welfare Conditions in Laverton-Warburton Range Area. by W L Grayden 1956; Council for Aboriginal Rights Report on Select Committee Report 1957; Hunt and Die: Prospect for Aborigines of Australia by M M Bennett. 1950; Report on Aborigines in Australia by Jessie Street, 1957.

Correspondents include: Anti-Slavery Society (London); G T Rogers (Ministry of Supply, London re Woomera Range); Hume Dow (Melbourne); S Andrews (Council for Aboriginal Rights, Northcote)

161p

New Guinea, 1954 - 1960 (File DCL 56/8)

Comprises: Correspondence and press cutting re sentencing of natives for killing of Australian patrol officers in Telefomin area 1954-1955.

Correspondents include: C W W Greenidge (Anti Slavery Society, London) and J S Murray (Australia House).

Press cutting re abolition of death penalty and sentencing for tribal killings, 1957.

Press cutting re independence, 1960.

7p

Malaya Press Cuttings, 1946 - 1948 (File DCL 57/1)

Covering letters from Malayan Democratic Union (Singapore) with comments on political situation, trade unions, civil rights.

Includes copy of 1 April 1947. Sir George Maxwell (Worthing) to Tan Cheng Lock re Malayan Union and constitutional situation.

Malaya. General File, 1949 - 1953 (File DCL 57/3)

Correspondence, press cuttings and memoranda re civil liberties in Malaya.

Includes: censorship, communism, concentration camps, arrest of John Eber in Singapore.

Correspondents include: Mrs Phaihaan Wee (London); Colonial Office; M Baker (President, Malayan Students Union, London); C Leslie Hale, MP (London).

Includes: memorandum on Violation of Human Rights by British Military and Police authorities. n.d.

147p

Malaya. Cases of John Eber, Liew Yit Fun etc., 1952 - 1956 (File DCL 57/4)

Correspondence, press cuttings, publications and memoranda re arrest of John Eber and Liew Yit Fun.

Correspondents include: Colonial Office; John Eber (London); H B Lim (London).

Publications include: Malayan Monitor vol 9 no. 3, 1956; Gerald De Cruz, Facing the Facts in Malaya UDC. 1952.

107p

Malaya. Case of Lee Tian Tai, 1952 - 1953 (File DCL 57/5)

Correspondence, press cuttings and memoranda re Lee Tian Tai sentenced to death in Perak.

Correspondents include: British Prime Minister's Office; Colonial Office; G R Cross (Lee Tian Tai Defence Committee, London).

39p

Malaya. Press Cuttings, 1954 - 1957 (File DCL 57/6)

Press cutting from Guardian, Times, Daily Worker re civil liberties.

35p

Sarawak, 1952 - 1955 (File DCL 61/9)

Correspondence, press cuttings and notes re situation in Sarawak and closure of Chinese School.

Correspondents include: A Webb (Webb Imports, Kuching); Stephen Yong (Sarawak); Mark Morrison and Co. (Solicitors, Kuching)

Includes: copy of petition to governor re closure of Chung Hua Chinese School and schedule of particulars of the grounds on which it is proposed to close school.

64p

Singapore, 1951 - 1957 (File DCL 61/11)

Correspondence and press cuttings re trials and death of Hsueh Yung Shu in prison.

Correspondents include: H B Lim (London); Colonial Office.

13p

Fiji, 1955 - 1957 (File DCL 61/13)

Correspondence and press cuttings re Indians in Fiji, deportation of Jack Thornton; racial discrimination in Suva.

Correspondents include: W T Williams MP (London); A L Bryden (Solicitor, London); Colonial Office.

23p

Censorship of Books in Australia, 1958 (File DCL 63/6)

Press cuttings from Times re censorship.

4p

Deputation to F.O. and High Commissioners for Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa re German refugees from Sudeten area of Czechoslovakia, 1938 (File DCL 69/1)

Correspondence, draft, circulars, memos.

Correspondents include: W J Jordan (High Commissioner for New Zealand, 18 October 1938); V C Duffy (Australian High Commission, 14 October 1938); Foreign Office.

160p

Australia. Rocket Bomb Test, 1946 - 1947 (File DCL 150/1)

Correspondence and press cuttings re rocket testing and rights of Indigenous Australians.

Correspondents include: M M Bennet (London); Charles Duguid (including copy of letter to News Adelaide); Reginald Bridgeman (Pinner)

34p

Australian Aboriginals, 1949 - 1956 (File DCL 150/2)

Correspondence, publications and press cuttings on Indigenous Australians.

Correspondents include: Mollie Bayne (Melbourne); H Rich (Sydney); David Lomax (Church Missionary Society); Prof. V G Childe (London); Thomas White (High Commission, London); Shirley Andrews (Melbourne); Charles Duguid (Adelaide).

Publications include: Australia-New Zealand Civil Liberties Society Statement on Indigenous Australians n.d.: The Aborigines of Australia by Charles Duguid, Anti-Slavery Society, 1954; The Aborigines of Darwin and the Tropical North by Charles Duguid, n.d.; Hunt and Die by M M Bennett, Anti-Slavery Society, 1950.

c182p

Black Chattels by G Parsons or duplicate publications originally in this Sub-Series were not filmed by the AJCP

Australia. Bill to Dissolve Communist Party, 1950 - 1951 (File DCL 150/3)

Correspondence, publications and press cuttings re Communist Party.

Correspondents include: W F Lyons (London); E J Harrison (Australian High Commission); Dingle Foot (London).

Publications include: A Public Remonstrance. Australian Council for Civil Liberties, 1950; A Bill for a Police State: Report by A.C.C.L. 1950; Memorial addressed to members of the Commonwealth Parliament by A.C.C.L., 2 June 1950.

126p

Australia. Freedom of Travel, 1950 - 1952 (File 150/4)

Correspondence and press cuttings re impounding of passports of Australian delegates to Warsaw Peace Congress.

Correspondents include: Eric J Harrison (Australia House); D Cusack (London)

Includes: report by W B Anderson on Proceedings at Colmar. 15 October 1951.

16p

Australia. Queensland Civil Liberties League, 1952 (File DCL 150/5)

Correspondence and memoranda on the Q.C.L.L.

Correspondents include: Ross Anderson (Toowong); G R Cochrane (Brisbane).

13p

Australia. Films, 1953 (File DCL 150/6)

Correspondence and publications re censorship of films.

Correspondents include: Brian Fitzpatrick (Melbourne); Clifton Ackroyd (London); T Bruce McCall (Sydney).

Publications include: Realist Film News Jan 1953, (Melbourne). Nov-Dec 1952. Realist Film Association (Melbourne) leaflets.

42p

Australia and New Guinea, 1948 (File DCL 150/7)

Correspondence and press cuttings re death penalty in New Guinea and Aboriginals in Australia, publication of Wallace Letters.

Correspondents include: L S Wilson (Barbados); K T Fowler (Australia-NZ Civil Liberties Society, London); Mrs Jane Wallace (Melbourne).

46p

Australia Aboriginals, 1959 - 1965 (File DCL 154/2)

Press cuttings on Aborigines. 17p

Printed publications.

Printed publications originally appearing in this Sub-Series were not filmed by the AJCP.

Malaya, 1947 - 1962 (File DCL 154/13)

Comprises: Malaya's constitution. N.C.C.L. Report, 1947. 5p Press cutting re Sarawak Times. 22 January 1962.

6p

New Zealand, 1962 - 1965 (File DCL 154/16)

Comprises: Richard Thompson. Background to Race Relations in NZ, 1963.

Press cuttings from Times, Guardian.

10p

'OZ' 4 Files, 1967 - 1972 (File DCL 315/1)

Press cuttings from Times, Daily Telegraph etc and press statements by N.C.C.L. 185p

Press cuttings from provincial papers. 80p

Correspondence from the British public regarding N.C.C.L. stand on the Oz trial. 79p

Press cuttings, N.C.C.L. statements and OZ (school kids issue) 110p

Australia, 1957 - 1972 (File DCL 357/1)

Correspondence, publications notices including: 1st Australian Convention; Councils for Civil Liberties, Sydney 1968; symposium on Indigenous Australians and black Australians. ICA 1972; A.B.J.A.B. circulars and leaflets.

Correspondents include: W B Fisse (Adelaide); A H Dodd (Perth); Gordon Jackson (Sydney); Ken Buckley (Sydney).

Copies of Peacemaker and Civil Liberty which originally appearing in this Sub-Series were not filmed by the AJCP.

71p

Malaysia and Singapore, 1971 - 1973 (File DCL 358/4)

Comprises: circular letters re situation in Malaysia: including 'Resolutely uphold the correct stand' 1973 and Malaysians and Singaporeans for a Democratic society. 1971.

11p