Labour History Collection (c. 1870 - )

This entity contains the archives of the Newcastle Trades Hall as well as the records of its affiliated trade unions. The records date back to the times when the trade unions and the Newcastle Eight Hour Committee met in local hotels before the opening of the first Newcastle Trades Hall in the 1890s.

Related Community Groups

• Lambton Mechanics Institute (1870 - 1958)
• The New Theatre, ('The Dungeon'), Newcastle Trades Hall (c. 1950 - 1974)
• Newcastle Workers Club (1950 - 1955)
• Royal Oak Lodge No. 9, Wallsend (1885 - 1966)

Related Corporate Bodies

• Union Lodge of Oddfellows, Manchester Unity, Newcastle (1842 - 1860)

Related Employer Bodies

• Hunter River Colliery Managers Defence Association (1906 - 1909)
• Metal Trades Council, Newcastle (1933 - 1937)

Related Families

• Longworth Family (1926 - 1953)

Related People

• Comerford, Jim
• Earp, Rod W.
• McEwen, Ellen M.
• Mendelsohn, Ronald S.
• Morgan, Jane

Related Professional Assoc's

• Library Association of Australia, Central Coast and Hunter Region Branch (1952 - 1983)

Related Trade Unions

• Aberdare Extended Miner's Lodge (1910 - 1927)
• Amalgamated Engineering Union, AEU (1938 - 1975)
• Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union (1928 - 1988)
• Baking Trades Employees Federation of Australia (1915 - 1923)
• Building Workers Industrial Union of Australia, BWIU (1948 - 1961)
• Cardiff Locomotive Workshops Combined Unions Shop Committee (1937 - 1979)
• Colliery Employees Federation of the Northern District NSW Industrial Union of Employees (1906 - 1915)
• Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen's Association of Australasia (1954 - 1958)
• Federated Ironworkers of Australia (1960 - 1963)
• Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia (1916 - 1992)
• Federated Moulders Union of Australasia (1918 - 1936)
• Federated Society of Boilermakers and Iron Shipbuilders of Australia (1877 - 1976)
• Friendly Trades Society of Iron Moulders (1885 - 1886)
• Metal Trades Federation (1948 - 1969)
• Newcastle and Northern District Operative Bakers Society (1924 - 1954)
• Newcastle Trades Hall Council (1878 - 1971)
• Northumberland and Northern New South Wales Bakers Society (1954 - 1971)
• Operative Bricklayers Trade Society, Newcastle (1909 - 1941)
• Printing Industry Employees' Union of Australia, Newcastle (1888 - 1972)
• Seamen's Union of Australasia, SUA (1945 - 1975)
• Sheet Metal Working Agricultural Implement & Stove Making Industrial Union of Australia, Newcastle (1943 - 1972)
• United Operative Bricklayers Trade Society, No. 2 Newcastle Branch (1909 - 1918)
• Waterside Workers Federation of Australia, WWF (1923 - 1925)

• Australian Trade Union Archives (ATUA), http://www.atua.org.au. [ Details... ]