ABLative No.5, Autumn 1987, pp 3-5 Archives of mining industry unions Author: Ewan Maidment Edited: June 2002 Introduction Australasian Coal and Shale Employees’ Federation (more commonly known as at the Archives of Business the Miners’ Federation) records were first deposited & Labour in 1959 and 1960 at the instigation of ANU historian, Robin Gollan, who was working on his history of coalminers in New South Wales, 1860-1960. Gollan also made arrangements for a variety of records of the Illawarra Miners to be lodged at the Archives. To these he later added some of his own research material on miners' compensation and pension schemes, and other matters. After Edgar Ross completed his History of the Miners' Federation of Australia in 1969, the Central Council of the Federation adopted his recommendation that the Federation's records be lodged at the Australian National University. The resulting deposit (E165) consists of Miners' Federation records, which Ross had collected for his research on its history. The major part of the deposit was transferred from Ross's home to the Archives in 1969 and a second batch was picked up from the office of Common Cause, the Federation's journal, in 1971. The deposit holds records of the Central Council, and of the Southern, Northern, Western, Queensland and Tasmanian Districts of the Federation and their predecessors. The Australian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation was formed in 1915 by the New South Wales, Queensland, Victorian and Tasmanian unions. In coalminers’ 1917, the metalliferous miners in Broken Hill joined the Federation. Deposit E165 includes Central Council minutes 1917-1929. The rest of the Central Council records in the deposit are a selection of discrete documents, files and printed material. A collection of about 300 photographs and 40 cartoons from the records of Common Cause forms part of deposit E165. The photographs cover a broad subject range and cover the period from 1885-1968. The cartoons drawn from Common Cause in the late 1940s and 1950s range from the dark expressionist drawings by Herbert McClintock and D. Carson to the humorous sketches of Toby Jackson and C.B. Arnott. A poster by A.J. Duffy, a painter and docker and former Newcastle miner, celebrates the Eureka centenary.
ABLative No.5, Autumn 1987, pp 3-5 Archives of mining industry unions Author: Ewan Maidment Edited: June 2002 Introduction Australasian Coal and Shale Employees’ Federation (more commonly known as the Miners’ Federation) records were first deposited at the Archives of Business & Labour in 1959 and 1960 at the instigation of ANU historian, Robin Gollan, who was working on his history of coalminers in New South Wales, 1860-1960. Gollan also made arrangements for a variety of records of the Illawarra Miners to be lodged at the Archives. To these he later added some of his own research material on miners' compensation and pension schemes, and other matters. After Edgar Ross completed his History of the Miners' Federation of Australia in 1969, the Central Council of the Federation adopted his recommendation that the Federation's records be lodged at the Australian National University. The resulting deposit (E165) consists of Miners' Federation records, which Ross had collected for his research on its history. The major part of the deposit was transferred from Ross's home to the Archives in 1969 and a second batch was picked up from the office of Common Cause, the Federation's journal, in 1971. The deposit holds records of the Central Council, and of the Southern, Northern, Western, Queensland and Tasmanian Districts of the Federation and their predecessors. The Australian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation was formed in 1915 by the New South Wales, Queensland, Victorian and Tasmanian coalminers’ unions. In 1917, the metalliferous miners in Broken Hill joined the Federation. Deposit E165 includes Central Council minutes 1917-1929. The rest of the Central Council records in the deposit are a selection of discrete documents, files and printed material. A collection of about 300 photographs and 40 cartoons from the records of Common Cause forms part of deposit E165. The photographs cover a broad subject range and cover the period from 1885-1968. The cartoons drawn from Common Cause in the late 1940s and 1950s range from the dark expressionist drawings by Herbert McClintock and D. Carson to the humorous sketches of Toby Jackson and C.B. Arnott. A poster by A.J. Duffy, a painter and docker and former Newcastle miner, celebrates the Eureka centenary.
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