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AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
NOEL BUTLIN ARCHIVES CENTRE
For retrieval of records, contact: Noel But/in Archives Centre Australian National University CANBERRA ACT 0200
Amended Jut 2003
Phone: (02) 6125 2219 Fax (02) 6125 0140
BOX LIST
Deposit List No. Z267
Name: Tom and Mary Wright Papers
Date of Receipt & Summary: 28 Feb 1986,9 Jun 1993, 18 Aug 1994, c. 1995
Series Description Date Range Box Nos.
Tom & Mary Wright
*Family papers and photographs 1936-1987 24
Correspondence 1931-1987 12 & 17 Received by Tom Wright 1907-1980 24,30 * Received by Mary Wright 1929-1985 24
Records relating to Tom Wright Reports, articles, speeches & papers 1930-1984 17 &24 Diaries 1952-1980s 24 "Personal files" 1923-1983 8-10 Loose papers 1913-1987 10-12, 18, 30 Obituaries, etc 1981 27-28
Women's movement records Correspondence 1951-1973 17 Reports, articles, leaflets & conference papers 1930-1984 17,24-25 Photographs nd & 1939 18 Serials 1933-1981 18,25 Pamphlets 1927-1984 18,25
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Series Description Date Range Box Nos.
Peace movement records Papers 1935-1990s 25-26 Pamphlets 1932-1979 27
Local government papers 1936-1978 27
Miscellaneous subject files and loose papers 1927-1983 18 &28
Photographs c.l909-1988 8,18,29
Films 1960-1963 20-23, 31
Memorabilia and ephemera 1916-1972 12,20,30
Press cuttings 1927-1977 6-7
Printed material: Posters nd 19 Cartoons nd 8 Posters nd 19 Leaflets - Australian c.l916-1984 1, 19, 30 Serials 1913-1982 7-8, 30 Pamphlets - Australian c. 1927-1985 1-4, 19, 30 Pamphlets - overseas 1914-1975 4-6, 30 Pamphlets - duplicates 14-16 Books - copies owned by Olive Pink 1952-1953 31 Published trade union reports and proceedings 1890-1909 31
Audio records 1962-early 1970s 31
StMary's (construction) Project, Board of Delegates
Minutes book 1956 13
* Items of personal significance have been removed from this series on 15.4.1998. See 3J file for details.
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Box 1
A
Box 2
Box 2 - B
Box 2 - C
Australian Published Leaflets (arranged by subject)
Aborigines Communist Party of Australia Demonstrations/processions - includes May
Day material Disputes Elections - politicians Elections - trade unions Issues of concern to unionists New Theatre Worldwide union issues (includes Cuba,
Sharpeville, nuclear war) Working conditions
Australian Published f'amphlets (arranged
alphabetically by author's name or subject)
Aboriginals All Australian Car Air Raids Amalgamated Engineering Union Amalgamated Metals, Foundry and
Shipwrights Union Armed Forces and the elections Australian Communist Party ACS&PA ACTU ALP Australian Marxist Review Australian Railways Union Australian workers Union Australians for nuclear disarmament Basic Wage BHP Boilermakers Britain's problems Budget Bureaucrats wrecking union Buckley, K, Facts about Cyprus BWIU Call to all workers Capitalist crisis Case for the FED&FA
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c1933-c1967 c1938-cl983
c1956-o1983
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Box 2 - D & E
Centenary of Labor Council of NSW Challenge facing trade unions Charter for Australia Chifley, J B, final speech Civil Liberty Clerks Union Robert Close and Georgean House case Clovelly case Clyde Wagon Works Commonwealth Government's Defence Policy Communist Party Copely, MP. Eliminate that Smoke Crimes Act Crimes Bill Crisis on the land
Dalby Davison, F. While Freedom Lives
Davis, Flo Dawson, Gerry. Wage case Decisions of vital interest to you Defend trade union unity Department of Education. Youth and a job Department of Technical and Further
Education, Apprenticeship Week Destroy the rocket project Dockyard workers The Drum Ebasco Report Empire Gazette Equal Pay Equal opportunity Eureka Stockade - centenary
Box 2 - F G & H Facts in connection with election of
President Far Eastern Trade Bulletin Federal Grants to Councils Federated Ironworkers Federated Liquor and Allied Industries Financial aid for Local Government Firefighters Fitzpatrick, B. A public remonstrance For amalgamation For the people against monopoly Forty Hour Week Get on the team Gibson, R. Soviet Unions contribution to
humanity Grayndler replies to enemies of AWU
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cl939-cl974
Hatfield, H. Facts of the rail orisis Hoist Aussie flag on high seas Holloway, E J. Ten years of war and
peace The Hungry mile Truth about the Hurseys
Box 3 - I J & L
Box 3 - M
Immigration ICI Industrial accidents Industrial relations Inflation, prices and wages ILO Iron and steel trades confederation Janes, C.V. Serfdom v price control Japanese - Australian amity Labor Council of NSW Laurie, E. Australia in NG Leen, D. Power against principle Left Book Club Lenin Lindsay, J. Where your money goes Living standards conference McLelland, D. Blacksmiths Society of
Australia McPhillips, J. Wages Maloney, J. Long Service Leave Manton, Joyce. War Margins and you May Day Maynes, J P. Meir 1 Golda.
freedom
Labour and history Right of peoples to live in
Menzies. Union smashing act Metal and Engineering Industries Metal Trades appeal Metal Trades Federation Metal unions Metal workers Metters dispute Migration/migrants Miles, J B. Work among women Miners Federation Miscellaneous Workers Union Money power Morris, J. True facts Mt Isa dispute Munitions factories Munro, H. Eric Kelly
Box 3 - N 0 P & R Nation National delegation to Canberra National Register Nationalisation of gas New Year's greetings No tame-cat unions!
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Box 4 - S & 'r
O'Brien, M. East of suez On Guard One Big Union Operative Painters and Decorators Union Pan Pacific Trade Union Secretariat Paterson, F, Speeches in Parliament Penal Powers People v Banks Poland Postwar Australia Prices and Incomes Accord Problems of Schools Rail workers and the wage fight Red trade unions Russian Socialist revolution
Sacked all over Australia? Schools Shearer against the AEU Sheet metal work Sheet metal workers soldiers' welfare
fund Sheet metal workers' union Sheet metal working, agricultural
implement and stovemaking industrial union
Shipping combine lets potatoes rot Socialist unity committee Soviet Union and the League of Nations State unemployed and relief workers
council Stewart, R Taxation This is television Trades and Labor Council Qld Trade Unions Tribune
Box 4 - U v W & Y Unions Unique Medical Centre United Front will rout splitters Victorian Metal Trades delegation to the
Soviet Union Voigt, E R. Control of Industry Wages Who talks war? Warbey w. Palestine Waterfront soldier adoption scheme Wharf stoppage. Why? White Australia Williams, Kath. An answer to the
splitters' slanders. Willis, S T. Step the noise making
silence Women Workers
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cl943-cl985
World Federation of Trade Unions Youth
Overseas Pamphlets (arranged by country of publication)
Box 4 - Bulgaria
Box 4 - China
Personal Property and the Right of Inheritance
State Insurance Pensions
Trade Union Law Report on the draft constitution Women in New China Chinese women in 1950 China will always firmly support just
struggle of Algerian people China monthly review China at war Generalissimo Chiang assails Konoye's
statement North China agreements and Japanese
charges Japanese trample on foreign rights in
China Sino-Japanese crisis Chinese Communist leaders Sun Yat-Sen The Boxer protocol and Japanese
aggression The North China crisis Pan Pacific Trade Union Conference Double Tenth, National Day of China Letter from China
Box 4 - Czechoslovakia
Box 4 - Cuba
7th Session of the Commission of Engineering Industries of the ILO
The Finger on the trigger Vth International Trades Conference of
Workers and Trade Unions in the Metal and Engineering Industries
Guantanamo Camilo Cienfuegos. People's hero This is democracy Fidel Castro denounces sectarianism The Revolution and cultural problems in
Cuba Cuba Fidel Castro reports to the Cuban people
on the conversations with U Thant Cuba
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1950 1955 1950 1950
1960 1952 1939
1939
1937
nd 1937 1938 1956
1937 1937 1927 1943. 1965
1962 1961
1967
nd 1962 1965 1962
1962 1961
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Cuba Revolucionana ano iii Box 5 - German Democratic Republic
In firm community towards further successes
Current documents from the GDR Box 5 - Hong Kong
Box 5 - India
Box 5 - Italy
Box 5 - Korea
The Defence of Wuhan
Chinese aggression in war and peace China's betrayal of India
Foreign bulletin
New Korea Box 5 - New zealand
Soviets at work Box 5 - South Africa
Box 5 - Spain
The attempt to crush labour Federation of Trade Unions.
Constitution.
Calendario Box 5 - Thailand
Target: labour unions Box 5 - Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR)
Order of the Day of J Stalin The Peoples of Europe versus Hitler The results of the first five year
plan Soviet elections Struggle of the CPSU for unity of the
International Communist movement Report to the 22nd Congress of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union Cultural and Educational work of trade
unions in the USSR Soviet Trade Unions and Wages The role of trade unions in the state and
economic life of the USSR Trade Unions in the USSR What they say and what I saw Religion and church in the USSR Soviet trade unions administer social
insurance Anarchism or socialism? Twenty-five years of soviet natural
science Communique Soviet trade unions Disarmament for durable peace and
friendship Urals metalworker The prime source of the development of
Soviet society Mikhail Sinitsyn The working class is the leading ferae
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1966
1951
1918
1914
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1939
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1944 1943
1933 1934
1964
1961
1961 1961
1961 1961 1961 1933
1961 1950
1944 1944
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1960 1951
1950 1951
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To the mine~s federation of Great Britain 1920
Soviet woman. A citizen with equal rights
Soviet trade unions today Labour in the USSR On the Draft Constitution The great seven year plan Soviet Trade Unions The Communist International Public education in the Russian Socialist
Federation of Soviet Republics Soviet trade unions administer the state
social insurance fund The Russian trade unions in 1907-1917 Meeting at Ulyanovsk The first president of the Republic of
Labour The Communist International What is soviet Power? USSR National and state structure The October Revolution
Box 6 - United Kingdom Boehm-Bawerk's Criticism of Marx The Rosenberg Case - The facts Party Organiser Harwerth men British Trade Unionism: Problems and
policy The British Labour Movement The Development of Capitalism Finance The Russian Revolution Periods of Working Class History Unemployment Local Government An Introduction to World History Economic Geography A Guide to the study of Marx Public Finance Money and Prices Press barons' teeth drawn Trades Union Congress Blackpool Labour's alternative. The United states
of Europe Limited Fourth Congress of the Communist
International Third Congress of the Communist
International Resolutions and theses of the fourth
congress of the Communist International
Decisions of the third Congress of the Communist International
Theses and Statutes of the third Communist International
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nd 1977 1959
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1959 1959 1970
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1975 1934
nd 1954 1938.
nd
nd 1922
nd nd nd nd nd nd nd nd nd nd nd nd
1945
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1922
1921
1922
1921
1920
Resolutions and theses of the fourth congress of the Communist International
Course for new members Czechoslavakia betrayed Friday night till Monday morning A Soviet writer looks at Vienna Communist Manifesto On economic relations among socialist
states Labor in the Soviet orbit Defend the rising generation The colonial question Spotlight on fascism Trade union experience and policy
1914-18 The march of English history The price of a dinner Russia's path to Communism Britain. Champion of the world's
liberties Box 6 - United States of America
The second congress of the communist international
Our children cry for bread Far East spotlight Free these three The socialists Memoirs of the Russian revolution Amalgamation Cybernation: the silent conquest Sechaba Sechaba
Box 6 - World Federation of Trade Unions Report of the World Trade Union
Conference Congress Resolutions The 116 Day strike of the American
steelworkers The responsibilities of the unions and
the workers The 13th session of the General Council
of the WFTU The WFTU in the service of the workers of
all countries Woman as worker, and Job discrimination.
1965
Newspaper Clippings
Aborigines Disputes
trade unionist Inequality in pay
Issues affecting unions
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1922 nd nd
1937 1934 1948
1950 1956 1935
nd nd
1940 nd
1933 1925
1940
1921 1933 1949 1941
nd 1919.
nd 1962
Aug 1971 Sep 1971
1945 1947
nd
1959
1964
1960 1966
1946-1976 1939-1976 1927-1985
Box 7 May Day Manpower Register Miscellaneous Overseas issues Personalities - union movement Politicians Working conditions T Wright
Serials (arranged alphabetically)
ALP News Vol 1 No 9 The Australian Marxist Review
Vol 1 No 1 The AMWSU Quarterly The Australian Socialist The Blacktown Shire Gazette The Communist International No 13 Smolny
Petrograd The Communist International No 3 Communist Review Communist Review Communist Review Engineer AEU, BBS, SMWU The Illustrated Star International Bulletin of Metal and
Engineering Workers No 1 Ireland published by Australian Irish
Solidarity Campaign Liquor Industries' Gazette Moscow News New Deal published by Liquor Trades
Union News weekly Our Time published by the Young Socialist
League The Picket Line published by the Timber
Workers Seamen's Journal
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1957-1959 1939
1933-1985 1927-1976 1946-1983 1956-1977 1946-1976 1949;1956
July 1951
Feb 1972 Apr-Jun 1982
Mar 1972 3 Aug 1939
nd 1921
July 1963 Jan-Feb 1965
Jun 1963 Mar 1972
July 1913
1954
nd. Apr 1970
1963; 1970
nd Jan 1969
June 1976
June 1929 Jan, Feb 1969 May, Jun 1972
Box 8 The Sheet Metal Worker
Sheet Metal Workers' Bulletin
Survey The Torch Vol 2 No 9 Underground Tribune Vision Workers Weekly (Volume)
Minute Book of the Board of Delegates on StMary's Project
Cartoons (copies)
The Appeal. Jim Casey The Labor Prometheus. Norman Lindsay Will that shadow never grow less? Claude
Marquet
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3 Jan
27 Jan 6 Apr July
10 oct Jan
29 Feb May Aug May Oct Jan Apr Jan Aug
Sept Oct Nov Jan Mar May Jul Sep Nov Jan Mar May Jul Mar
2 Oct 9 Apr
Feb 1939-27 Jun
1921 1921 1921 1921 1922 1932 1952 1956 1958 1967 1969 1970 1972 1936 1936 1936 1936 1937 1937 1937 1937 1937 1937 1938 1938 1938 1938 1982 1936 1960 1959 1939
1956
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Photographs
One folder of photographs, Includes photos of Tom Wright and others at various meetings; 2 of Miss Sheet Metal Worker; several of processions including the tin can band; CPA headquarters and a document presented to Madam Chian kaishek.
Personal files
Aborigines Australian National University letters -
T Wright Apprenticeship ACTU Congress 1927-1967 ACTU Congress Paddington Town Hall Sydney
September 8-12, 1969 1969 Ballot
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c1909-c1970
1940-1955; 1971
1959-1977 1954-1962
nd
1969-1971 1969
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Box 10
Box 11
Civil & Civic Pty Ltd Equal pay Federal Council Federal Council minutes Flood Relief
(Newcastle-Maitland) Galvin 1952 decision Second IMF Asian regional conference
Sydney (Australia) National Register New Guinea. Papua Miss Pink's papers Racialism Royal Commission of enquiry into the
matter of the trial and conviction and sentences imposed on Charles Reeves and others
Socialist Party of Australia Mr T Wright (pension plan) Mr T Wright (speeches) Untitled (Meeting ACTU interstate
executive) Untitled (Minutes NSW Trade Union
Congress) Untitled (Letter to PM Curtin) Untitled (Royal tours) Untitled (Women; Technology) Untitled (Penal provisions; South
Africa; Wages) Untitled (Minutes of commonwealth
Council; coastal tankers; aborigines; wages etc)
Untitled (Draft of book; speeches; minutes; report)
Untitled (Union matters)
Subject Files (loose papers organised bv subject)
ACTU Chinese delegation to Australia
Communist Party of Australia
Disputes Forty Hour Week Issues of concern to unionists Labour Council of NSW May Day; 8 Hour Day Miscellaneous
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1972 1962-1972 1941-1943 1966-1970
1955-1956 1952
1966-1972 1939
1964-1965 1972-1979 1946-1947
1920 1971; 1983
1970-1971 nd
1964
cl938 1941
1954-1963 c1974
1963
1964; 1972
1939-1960 1903-1970
c1939-c1980 1952-1956;
1972 1937;
1960-1982 cl972
cl939-c1947 c1969-c1975
1939-1971 1942; 1956 cl929-c1981
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Box 13
Box 14
Box 15
Box 16
Overseas union issues Ratliff and Thomas Records of various unions Wages - includes basic wage Tom Wright - correspondence
with Tom Wright's trips overseas (includes
photos - good ones of China, postcards, flags and cards)
Tom Wright's retirement
Ephemera - cards, tickets, passports, invitations
Notes made by Tom Wright (written on cards, notepads and paper)
Duplicates of Australian pamphlets (copies held in P120)
Duplicates of Serials (copies held in P120)
Duplicates of pamphlets (several countries. Copies held in P120)
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cl959-c1976' 1941
1936-1976 1946-1969
c1944-c1976f
1956; 1963-1969 1972
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Record Group: Tom and Mary Wright Series Title: Tom and Mary Wright: correspondence
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Tom Wright to Mary Lamm (birthday card).
Invitations to Tom and Mary Wright.
W A Morcom (?) to M L, from 'Somewhere in Spain', including a group of press illustrations of scenes of the Spanish Civil War, many of which are annotated by W A Morcom.
Tom Wright to the Editor, Sydney Morning Herald, re Communists and the War (3 letters).
Unidentified author to Mary Wright, re IWDF and IWD.
Copies of correspondence received by the Building Workers Industrial Union from Pat Clancy who was travelling in China with Tom Wright to Peace and trade union conferences in Shanghai and Peking.
Various greeting cards sent to Mary Wright.
J E Heffernan to Tom Wright, re agenda items for the ACTU Congress.
Sheet Metal Working Union, NSW Branch, to the American Consul, re the murder of Martin Luther King.
Pat Clancy to Tom Wright.
Ralph Gibson to Tom Wright and Mary Wright, re use of records in their possession.
General Secretary of the Sheet Metal Working Union to the President of the Amlagamated Metal Workers Union re amalgamaflon matters, enclosing a copy of minutes of the biennial meeting of the Federal Council of the SMWU, Apr 1972.
Various greeting cards sent to Tom Wright upon his retirement.
Mary Wright to Darby.
Tom Wright to Irene Denham re his health.
Tom Wright to Irene Denham, re deaths of George Goss and Alan Wilson.
Nicholas Peterson, Dept of Prehistory and Anthropology, ANU, to Tom Wright, re exhibition of Applied Aboriginal Art held at Davis Jones in 1941.
Verity Bergmann to Peter Wright, re return of documents on loan.
M Wooton to Mary Wright, re Tom Wright.
Audrey Johnson to Mary Wright.
Peter & Barbara Wright to Mary Wright (May Day greetings).
Freda Brown to Mary Wright (2 cards).
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14 Aug 1933
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1937 1965
10 Jul 1938
24 Apr 1940 30 Apr 1940
19 Feb 1951
May 1952
1953
23 May 1967
10 Apr 1968
7 May 1988
21 Sep 1971
3 May 1972
1972
15 Aug 1976
10 Mar 1980
13 Aug 1980
18 Jul 1980
13 Dec 1985
16 Aug 1987
9 Sep 1987
Dec 1987
1987
2 Sep 1983
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Paddy Drew to Tom Wright.
Irene Graham to Mary Wright.
Series Title: Tom Wright: papers, articles and reports
1 7 'Election Talk - Station 2UE'.
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Radio broadcast re referendum.
'Unity in the Metal Trades', Communist Review, No.40.
Untitled typescript, 56pp. Chapter headings: New Worlds for Old
Oligarchy and Proletariat Elimination of Competition State Socialism Employment and Unemployment Primary Production
Finance and Government Population Law and Public Health Australia and the World The Struggle Ahead The Antagonists.
'Statement by Australian Trade Union Delegation", by T Wright, P Clancy, W Gardner, W Bird and J Beits (Trade Union Delegation to China).
Sheetmetal Working Industrial Union, NSW Branch, circular re Newcastle and Orange sub-branches.
Radio broadcast from Peking.
'The Trade Union S'1tuation".
"Notes on the Australian Trade Union Movement".
"Cuba Abolishes Illiteracy", Orbit, Vol.3, No.3.
'The Cuban Revolution".
'Technological Developments and Automation'.
'Further Questions re Technological Change'.
'Wages Struggle in the Metal Industry'.
'President's Opening Address" (to SMWU).
'Outline of History and Tasks of the Union" (SMWU).
Statement on Vietnam War and conscription for overseas service.
Series Title: Women's movement: correspondence
1 7 Correspondence: T Wright to G Hodson and G George confirming SMWU credentials as delegates to a WEA Conference, 'Women at Work".
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Item List #1 as at 2 Aug 1993
Correspondence: Jessie Street to Mary Wright re sending a copy of her speech at the WIDF Conference in Berlin.
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1944
Dec 1944
1944
22 May 1952
19 Jun 1953
May 1952
1962
30 Apr 1963
Dec 1963
1963
Sep 1966
1968
Mar 1970
1970
9 Apr 1951
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1 7 Correspondence: T Wright to the Union of Australian Women on the occasion of its 25th anniversary.
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21 Sep 1973
Series Title: Women's movement: reports, articles, leaflets and conference papers
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African National Congress, Women's Section, IWD statement.
Australia's 150lh Anniversary Celebrations, Women's Conference: programme.
Building Workers Industrial Union, NSW Branch, Women's Committee: leaflet about the Committee.
Campaign Against Rising Prices, submission to the NSW Parliamentary Inquiry on the Meat Industry.
Campaign Against Rising Prices: miscellaneous documents.
Gertrude Duby, "Mother Bloor" (copy of an article in 'Woman Today").
Equal pay: leaflets.
Equal Pay: papers re # Womens Employment Board # Women's Wage Rates (Federal awards) # Application re Female Minimum Wage Case, 1945.
Extension of visas of the Soviet Women's delegation to Australia.
International Women's Year: leaflets.
International Women's Day: sundry leaflets and poster.
Phyl Keesing, "Status of Women Report" to the 9th Triennial Conference of the UAW.
E A Laurie (Research Officer, Queensland Trades and Labour Council), "Wages of Women in Industry".
Audrey MCDonald, "Peace Can Mean Jobs and Higher Living Standards". Paper delivered at the Australian Peace Committee Conference.
Referendum Price Control Conference: agenda.
Norma Parker, Report on the Conference of Civilian Widows and Deserted Wives.
A Viola Smith, "Women in the United Nations", address to the Australian Federation of Women Voters.
Jessie Street: broadcast, feature article and leaflets.
UAW/SMWU daft text and foreword of "Women and Wages in the War Years".
UAW: leaflets.
UAW, "The First Twenty Years". Text of speech given to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the UAW.
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Mar 1938
Mar
1973
1962
1945
1962
1975
1940
1983
Dec 1945
Apr 1980
Oct 1955
4 Nov 1957
1939
1951
1970
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1980
1978
1981
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UAW, submission to the State's Select Parliamentary Committee on Prostitution.
Women's movement: political leaflets, including UAW, CPA Women's Department, CPA Paddington Women's Committee, Militant Women's Group, Waterside Workers Women's Committee, Seamen's Union Women's Committee and the Women's Anti-War Conference.
T Wright, Notes from a speech (on equal pay for women), Actors Club.
T Wright, 'Report on Women's Wages'.
Series Title: Women's movement: photographs
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Anti-Vietnam War/ anti-conscription demonstration, at Punchbowl, Mary Wright and Phyllis Johnson among others are in the demonstration.
May Day Demonstrat'1on, Sydney (?), showing UAW contingent.
Series Title: Women's movement: printed material - pamphlets
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Verra Narro, 'Women and Children on Relief', Wellington, CPNZ.
Ann Barton, 'Mother Bloor', NY, Workers Library Publishers. (Photocopy.)
Judy Edelman, 'Women on the Job: the Communist view', NY, New Outlook Publishers.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, 'Women Have a Date with Destiny', NY, Workers Library Publishers. ##
Militant Women's Movement on Australia, "Report of Conference, held Sydney, 5-6 Oct 1929.
'Henrietta Greville: veteran Labor pioneer' (by a group of friends), Sydney, Current Book Distributors.
• A New Deal for Women', Sydney, Communist Party of Australia.
'Nursery Schools: what they are and how to get them', London, Women's Advisory Council of the Communist Party.
Socialist Party of Australia, Women's Committee, Clara Zetkin: her life and work', Sydney, SPA.
Sheet Metal Working Industrial Union, Women and Wages in the War Uears, 1940-1945", Sydney, UAW.
'UAW Information Bulletin: Towards 1975, Sydney, UAW.
"UAW: programme and constitution; an Australian Charter of Women Workers' Rights'.
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1 8 UAW, "Report on Peace Development and Happiness for Women and Children in SE Asia Seminar, Hanoi, Jan 1984.
1 8 'Woman's Road to Freedom", Sydney, Militant Women's Group.
1 8 "Women Under Capitalism", Sydney, Women's Section of the Cumberland District of the Communist Party of Australia. (1940s ?)
Series Title: Women's movement: printed material - serials
1 8 • ALP Woman' (Labor Women's Committee, NSW Branch) Special Diamond Jubilee issue.
1 8 'The Housewives' Guide" (New Housewives' Association). Includes article by Mrs R Whitfield, 'Equal Rate for the Job", reporting on the application for equal pay for women in the metal trades.
1 8 'International Press correspondence' (Comintern), Vol.13, No.9. International Women's Day issue.
18 'Our Women (UAW), No.24. 10th Anniversary issue.
1 8 'The Working Woman" (CPA), Vo1.5, No.6. Special commemoration issue.
Series Title: Subject files
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Basic wage: an unsigned motion for the ACTU Congress. (1945?)
Frank Bollins, 'A Veteran Trade Union Leader Dies.' A biographical article on Tom Wright.
'Robert Boxall, Pioneer'. A memoir introduced by J E Heffernan.
Pat Clancy: press cuttings and souvenir menu.
Irene Denham, "Some Memories of Mr Tom Wright".
Paddy Drew: membership card of the International Seamen's Club and Port Bureau.
Henrietta Greville, extract from the "Australian Women's Digest".
Johannesburg - great strike, Jul 1913, and General Strike, Jan 1914: post cards and memorial cards.
Jack Lindsay (Research Officer, NSW Labor Council), statements on "Paid Public Holidays" and 'Fruit and Vegetables". (1946?)
Plumbers and Gasfitters Employees Union: circular re charges against Bro Anderson, who had been found guilty by the Federal Council of collaborating with the employers and prevented from holding any Federal office of the Union, but had managed to retain his NSW official position by very dubious methods.
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1964
Nov 1948
27 Feb 1933
1963
Jan 1935
1981
1985
7 Aug 1987
10 Mar 1952
Dec 1945
1913
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1987
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'The Spark" (Enfield Yards Group of the Communist Party of Australia): masthead.
Trade Union Socialist Activities Association: Secretary's report.
Verse: 'Two Pounds Ten' and "Der Geist von Marx'
Tom Wright: papers re his position as Alderman on the Sydney City Council, including photograph of Aid Tom Wright and Aid Ron Maxwell meeting the Queen.
Tom Wright: obituaries, expressions of sympathy, etc.
Series Title: Press cuttings
1 8 Press cuttings re Tom Wright's activities, Communist Party Dissolution Bill, and other matters.
Series Title: Photographs
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Florence Lahiff, Secretary, Womens' Committee of the Unemployed and Rel'lef Workers Movement.
Lance Sharkey.
Mary Wright # 80th birthday celebrations (8 photographs). # Mary Wright and Olga Lamm, 4 Derwent Street, Glebe, 1928. # Mary with her children, Ken, Olga and Peter, Thirroul, 1937. # Mary Wright and Olga (her daughter), Greenacre, 1950s. # Mary and Tom Wright, 1980. # Mary with Peter Wright, 1984. # Mary Wright, 1984. # Mary Wright and Win Olive, 1987. # Mary Wright and Topsy Small, nd. # Mary Wright, 1988.
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1953 1960
1981
1947 1974
1928 1988
Noel Butlin Archives Centre
Item List for Deposit: Z267
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Title
Tom Wright # Tom Wright with his brothers and sisters: Bill, Kath and 2 others, nd. # Early photograph of Tom Wright (centre male) with a group, rowing, 1920s. #Tom Wright on horseback, on Phil Thorne's farm near Nowra, 1950s .# Tom Wright, Pat Clancy and other Australian trade union delegates on tour in China and USSR, 1952 (5 photographs). # Tom Wright and others at the opening of the David G Stead Memorial Wildlife Research Foundation of Australia, Wimimbirra Sanctuary, Bargo, nd (1964?) (3 photographs). # Sheet Metal Working Union floats, sign and contingent, including Tom Wright, at a 6 Hour Day march in Sydney, nd (late 1960s) (3 photographs). # Tom Wright marching in a 6 Hour Day Demonstration, Railway Square, Sydney, 1960. # Tom Wright with Albert Amos, Organiser, AMWU, nd. # Tom Wright with George Goss, Asst Sec SMWU, nd. # Tom Wright at Employers Federation of NSW, 14th Industrial Relations Conference, 1970. # Tom Wright with an unidentified couple, Hotel Enfield, Sydney, nd.
Group of women with banner portrait (of male, possibly Tom Wright?), Haymarket, Sydney?, nd (1930s-1940s?).
Set of official photographs of China, some identified.
Set of official photographs of Cuba, 'Cuba, Territorio Libre de America'.
Series Title: Printed material: leaflets
1 9
1 9
1 9
Item list #1 as at 2 Aug 1993
Combined Mining Unions, Militant Miners' Groups and Lang Labor Party, leaflets relating to Miners Federation matters: includ'1ng elections, 1937; 40 hour week.
Communist Party of Australia: election programs, manifestos and NSW Parliamentary election tickets, and leaflets on other matters.
Sheet Metal Working Union & AMWU election leaflets (3 items).
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From To
1920 1970
1952
1937 1940
1936 1945
1970 1980
Noel Butlin Archives Centre
Item List for Deposit: Z267
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Title
Miscellaneous leaflets, including: # 'Tom Mann 80th Birthday Celebrations", Melbourne, nd. # ARU, NSW Branch, "Manifesto in Support of the Setting Up of Railway Shop Committees", Sydney, 1 934. # Loco Depot (NSW Railways) Enfield Branch (Report of Enfield Loco Shop Committee activities, Jun-Sep 1934), Sydney, nd (1934). # Spanish Relief Committee et al. leaflets. # Central No Conscription Committee, 4 leaflets, 1 940(?). # Amalgamated Engineering Union, Sydney District Committee, 'Stop Work Meeting' (re breaking down of status of Engineering Tradesmen, etc.), Sydney, 1 940. # Sheet Metal Workers' Union, 'Labor's Golden Jubilee", Sydney, nd (1 940?). # Coburg Victims of the Heresy Hunt, 'Dictatorship or Democracy in the Australian Labor Party?"(re Victorian expulsions), Melbourne, 1941. # Don Laing, "Don Laing Charges Thomas, Downey and Adams: money squandered - working with Packer" (re BLF, Old Branch), Sydney, 1943. # Trades and Labor Council, "26th Anniversary Salute to the Russian Revolution ... City Procession and Domain Rally", Sydney, 1943. # Partai Kebangsaan Indonesia (PKI), 'Pamphlet", Mackay, 1945. # Vehicle Builders Employees' Federation of Australia, 'Post War Reconstruction Plan", 1945. # Metal Trades' Federation, 'Those Govt. Munitions Factories!', Sydney, 1946. # Combined Railway Union' Extra Leave Campaign Committee, 'Do You Want a Democratic Government?", nd. # 'Palmolive McPhillips Storms Kemeira Heights', Worker Print, nd. # R. Batterham, 'Proposed Plan for Unity and Progress for Textile Workers Union", Sydney, nd. # ACSPA and ACOA, NSW Branches, "Margins Rally", Sydney, 1963.
Series Title: Printed material: poster
1 9
1 9
East Sydney No Conscription Committee, "March On May Day".
"Boom and Bust: 1891-1914'.
Series Title: Printed material: pamphlets
1 9
1 9
llem List #1 as at 2 Aug 1993
Australia. Commonwealth Parliament, ·A Bill for an Act to Provide for the Dissolution of the Australian Communist Party ... " (roneoed copy.)
Australian Peace Congress, 'Songs of Peace", Sydney.
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From To
1934 1963
27 Apr 1950
1950
Noel Butlin Archives Centre
Item List for Deposit: Z267
Lac. No. File Ref.
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1 9
1 9
1 9
1 9
1 9
1 9
1 9
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1 9
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1 9
1 9
1 9
Hem List 111 as at 2 Aug 1993
Title
Australian Youth Carnival for Peace and Friendship, 'International Songs", Sydney.
Henry Boote, "May Day: a commemoration poem for the great May Day procession in Sydney, 1938", Sydney, Worker Trustees.
A. R. Butterfield, "The Atom Bomb: the case for world control', Sydney, A R Bryant (printer).
'Communist International" (Exceutive Committee of the Communist International) Special Congress Number (1 922?). NOW AT S552.
E V Elliott, "Germany and World Peace', Sydney, Seamens Union of Australia.
Nguyen Huy Hoang (Ed.), "The Truth About the Policy of Expansion and Hegemony', Vietnam News Agency.
Jack Hutson, 'From Penal Colony to Industrial Arbitration". Limited pilot edition.
Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels, 'Centenary Edition of the Communist Manifesto', London, Communist Party.
Dobe Newcombe, 'Bush Christmas: Christmas in Australia (featuring music by the Bushwackers)', Sydney, Timboola Publishing Co.
M. O'Brien, "East of Suez: we must be told", Sydney, ARU.
M. O'Brien, "Vietnam: why are we there?", Sydney, ARU.
F. Potashnikov, 'The Role of the Soviet Trade Unions in Housing and Everyday Services", Moscow, Trade Union Publishing House.
Queensland Building Trades Group, "The C.C.C. Cooks' Strike, 17 May to 16 Jun 1944", Brisbane.
Sheet Metal Workers Soldiers' Welfare Fund, 'Report on Activities, 19 May 1943 to 30 Sep 1945', (the fund was established and run by the Women's Committee of the Sheet Metal Workers' Union) Sydney, the Union.
Sydney May Day Committee, 'Swing into the 70s with May Day", Sydney, the Comittee.
P. T. Thorne, "Free Mooney! a complete story of the outrageous Mooney-Billings frame up and the 22 years struggle against their continued incarceration", Sydney, International Labor Defence.
US, House of Representatives, "Calling for a Mutual and Verifiable Freeze on and Reductions in Nuclear Weapons" (photocopy).
T. Uren, "Report on Visit to the Peoples' Republic of China' (roneoed).
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From To
1952
1938
1961
1979
1948
1983
1966
1966
1961
1944
1945
1970
1936
1983
1960
Noel Butlin Archives Centre
Item List for Deposit: Z267
Lac. No. File Ref.
1 9
Title
R.H. Warn, 'The Sheet Metal Worker's Instructor", London, published by the author. (A Drew family hierloom, having been handed from JJ Drew through several members of the family to Paddy Drew.)
Series Title: Memorabilia
20
20
20
20
20
20
20
20
20
20
20
20
Series Title: Films
20
20
21
22
23
Item Ust #1 as at 2 Aug 1993
Wallet presented to Mary Wright.
Presentat'lon photograph of Clara Zetkin in a hinged frame given to Mary Wright to honour her contribution to International Womens Day celebrations in Australia.
Plaque commemorating the Sydney May Day centenary, 1892-1992, awarded to Mary Wright by the Sydney May Day Committee.
Plaque made for International Women's Day, Bankstown, honouring Mary Wright, foundation member of IWD.
Certificate in perspex stand awarded by the Australian Peace Committee for a special contribution to the peace movement.
Australian passport issued to Tom Wright.
Name tag for Thomas Wright, Sheet Metal Workers' Union.
Remington electric shaver presented to Tom Wright from the workers of Steelbilt ltd on the occasion of his election to the Sydney City Council.
Pennant: NIT A. Cuba, Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores Textiles.
Pennant: FDGB
Small Cuban flag on stand.
Set of commemorative post cards from the USSR.
Film: 'Tereskovova'. USSR (b&w, 16mm, 7' reel).
Film: 'My Child', produced by DEFA, Berlin), in cooperation with the Women's International Democratic Federation, written by Vladimir Pozner and directed Vladimir Pozner and Alfons Machalz (b& w, 16mm, 7' reel).
Film: 'Ustrendi Pujcovna Filmu uvadi oil Celostatni Spartakiade' - "2nd Spartakiad - Children I" (colour, 16mm, 13.5" reel).
Film: 'Celesta! Spartakiada II - Mlad a Krasa' -'Youth and Beauty I", (colour, 16mm, 12' reel).
Film: unidentified 'Apniek"? (colour, 16mm, 11' reel).
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From To
1869
1937
1992
1970
1969
5 Dec 1953
1971
1963
1960
Z267 Box No.
Box24
Description
Additional deposit received Aug 1994
Family papers and photographs
Children's correspondence, including: letter from Ken Lamm to his mother (Mary).
letter from Ken Lamm, Chiswick, to his mother.
two letters from John to Mum (Mary).
note from Jean and Ken to Mary.
letter from Olga to Mary.
Letters and cards from Mary Wright's grandchildren.
Kenneth Lamm's school reports, 1938-1943, and other papers.
Survey report on Tom and Mary's house, 41 Banksia Road, East Bankstown, NSW.
Peter Wright: obituaries and related papers.
Miscellaneous papers.
Various family photographs
Correspondence received by Tom Wright
Post card (unsigned) addressed to Tom Wright, from Norfolk, Vancouver.
Letter from General Secretary of the ALP State ofNSW to Tom Wright summoning him to give information to the Executive re E C Magrath.
Letter from W. W. Baldwin, Hon Sec Hurstville Branch ALP, to Tom Wright.
Post card (signature illegible) to Tom Wright from Yalta.
Post card (unsigned) to Tom Wright from Moscow(?).
Post card (from Mr?, USSR) to Tom Wright .
Letter from Joyce, Chiswick, to Tom and Mum.
1
Date Range
3 Dec 1936
28 Jan 1948
nd
nd
24 Nov 1941
1973-1987
23 Sep 1949
1994
1939-1985
Dec 1907
14 Jan 1925
21 Feb 1925
5 Aug 1928
nd
15 May 1930
31 May 1951
Z267 Box No.
Box24
Description
Letter from H Hatfield, Secretary, Sydney Committee, Communist Party of Australia, expressing appreciation of Wright's report to a stop work meeting of metal workers.
Letter from Mary Wright, Chiswick, Sydney, to Tom Wright
Letter from S. Banayan, President of the Central Committee of the Trade Union of Engineering Workers and Tool Makers of the USSR, to Tom Wright (and translation).
Post card from I. Michailov in Moscow to Tom Wright.
Letter from Pat Clancy to Tom Wright re ACTU Executive decision to go to Peking.
Aerogram from A.R Buckley, England
Letter from Hystisis (?), Cuba regarding his trip to Cuba
Postcard from International Affairs Dept, United Auto Workers, US to Federal President, Sheet Metal Working Union.
Letter from John Darling, Employers Federation ofNSW
Post card from Greg, USSR(?) to Tom, Jack & all.
Telegram from Tom Nelson to Chairman, Tom Wright Reception Committee
Letter from J P Ducker, conveying the resolution of the NSW Labor Council following Tom Wright's retirement as a delegate to the Labor Council.
Letter from Peter Symons, Socialist Party of Australia, re 50th anniversary of the communist press in Australia.
Letter from Graham Dunkley thanking Tom Wright for letter in reply to questions regarding the ACTU.
Date Range
5 Feb 1952
30 May 1952
6 Dec 1952
nd (1956?)
31 Mar 1957
15 Jun 1962
31 May 1962
12 Sept 1969
6 Oct 1970
8 Jun 1972
5 Dec 1972
8 Dec 1972
6 Jun 1973
19 Jul1973
Letter from Paul Golkin, Bulli, to Tom. Dec 1973
Letter from Max Brown to Tom Wright (photo 11 Nov 1974 copy).
Letter from Frank Hogan, Auburn, Sydney. 24 Nov 1974
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Box24
*
Description Date Range
Letter from Frank Hogan, Auburn, Sydney. 12 Jan 1975
Letter from M J Malcolm, NSW State Secretary, 1 May 1980 AMWU, re Labor Council honour role for long serving delegates.
Correspondence received by Mary Wright
Letter from the Timber Workers Wives of Glebe to Mrs Lamb and Joy Barrington thanking them for their support.
Letter from Tom Wright, Moscow.
Letter from Tom Wright, Peking.
Letter from Tom Wright, Nanking.
Letter from Tom Wright, Hangchow.
Letter from Tom Wright, Shanghai.
Letter from Tom Wright, Peking.
Letter from Tom Wright, Peking.
Letter from Tom Wright, Moscow.
Letter from Tom Wright, Yalta.
Letter from Tom Wright, Adelaide.
Letter from Tom V.'right, Melbourne.
Letter from Tom Wright, Perth.
Letter from Dorothy Hewett (photocopy).
Letter from Tom Wright, Canberra.
Letter from Tom Wright, Melbourne.
Letter from Tom Wright, Prague.
Letter from Tom Wright, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Letter from Tom Wright, Havana.
Letter from Tom Wright, Havana.
Letter from Tom Wright, Prague.
Letter from Tom Wright, Melbourne.
Letter from Tom Wright, Melbourne.
Letter from Tom Wright, Melbourne.
Letter from Esther Neville(?).
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4 Nov(?) 1929
14 Jun 1951
2 May 1952
13 May 1952
19 May 1952
22 May 1952
1 Jun 1952
4Jun 1952
8 Jun 1952
24 Jun 1952
1965
8 May 1954
2 Dee 1954
4 Mar 1958
9 Oct 1962
30 Oct 1962
17 Feb 1963
25 Apr 1963
26 Apr 1963
28 Apr 1963
1963
28 May 1963
8(?) Jul1964
16Mar
5 May 1965
24 Jun 1965
Z267 Box No.
Box24
Description
Letter from Tom Wright, Melbourne.
Letter from Tom Wright, Brisbane.
Letter from Tom Wright, Moscow.
Letter from Tom Wright, Ulianov.
Letter from Tom Wright, Leningrad.
Letter from Tom Wright, Berlin.
Letter from Rine.
Telegram from Under Secretary to the NSW Premier.
Invitation from R B Bowman, Mayor of Bankstown.
Letter from Margaret and Ernie to Mary and Tom Wright.
Letter from Nel Quinlan, Castle Hill, Sydney.
Letter from Rosemary Davies, Mortdale.
Letter from Betty & Phil, Nowra.
Letter from George Kulton, Dungog.
Letter from Rosemary Davies, Mortdale.
Letter from Trevor Graham and Sharon Connolly, Yarra Bank Films, Elwood, Victoria.
Letter from Sharon Connolly, Rebel Flicks, Elwood, Victoria.
Card from Della Elliott, Sydney.
Card from Joyce and Roly, Zagreb.
Articles and speeches by Tom Wright and related material
Talk on China - 2KY.
Hands Off China - 2KY talk.
Hands Off China - 2KY talk.
Hands Off China - 2KY talk.
Hands Off China- 2KYtalk.
Referendum Talk- 2UE- 7.45pm- Saturday.
Report on visit to the Soviet Union.
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Date Range
31 Aug 1965
10 May 1966
28 Apr 1969
4 May 1969
10 May 1969
15 May 1969
nd
1978(?)
6 Feb 1978
28 Jun 1979
11 Jan 1981
3 Feb 1982
5 Feb 1982
7 Jul1982
24 Jun 1983
14 Dec 1983
nd
Dec 1984
31 Jul1985
17 Jan 1938
24 Jan 1938
31 Jan 1938
7 Feb 1938
14 Feb 1938
15 Jul1944
1952
Z267 Box No.
Box24
Description
Work in Local Government.
Report on the ACTU Conference of Federal Unions, Melbourne, 20-21 Nov 1962.
May Day - T Wright, Secretary Sheet Metal Workers Union- 2KYtalk.
The Cuban Revolution.
Letter from Sydney trade unions to the US Consul General re bombing of Hanoi.
Soviet Unionists Visit Australia.
Technological Developments and Automation.
Further Questions Concerning Technological Change.
Outline of History and Tasks of the Union.
50th Anniversary Thoughts [re CPA].
Notes on social insurance (Usikov) and wages possibly by Tom Wright
Diaries of Tom Wright
Address book.
Travel diary, China & USSR
Travel diary - Cuba.
5
Date Range
nd
1962
1 May 1962
1963
1 Jul1966
nd
nd
nd (1966?)
Mar 1970
1970
nd
1970s-1980s
Apr-Jul 1952
Apr-Jun 1963
Z267 Box No.
Box24
Box25
Description
Women's Movement papers
Union of Australian Women: reports, pamphlets, newsletters, leaflets and circulars, including: . Circular letter from Mary Wright, President, Bankstown Area Committee, UAW, re deputation to meet the NSW Premier re unemployment; . UAW Submission on the Position ofWomen in Australia, 1978; . Report on Peace, Development and Happiness Seminar for Women and Children in SE Asia Seminar, Hanoi, 1984.
International Women's Day Sydney Committee note books (3).
International Women's Day Sydney Committee minute book (includes press cuttings).
International Women's Day Sydney Committee minute book.
International Women's Day Sydney Committee minute book.
International Women's Day: miscellaneous notes and papers, including: . Paper by Mary Wright on the history of International Women's Day, nd; . Note on the history of IWD in Newcastle, nd; . Copy of CPA Women's Section minutes of discussionon IWD, nd . . "Tie That Loaf of Bread Down, Girls" (lyrics of song), nd; . Sylvia Harding, "Report of the UAW representative on the WIDF delegation to Vietnam and Kampuchea", nd; . Photograph of Sydney Wharfies Womens Committee IWD display, nd;
International Women's Day: leaflets, circulars, invitations and other papers issued at IWD celebrations in Australia.
6
Date Range
1958-1984
1965
Nov 1970-Mar 1971
Dec 1971-Feb 1972
Feb- Dec 1973
nd
1949-1984 (gaps)
Z267 Box No.
Box25
Description
Women's movement: miscellaneous leaflets, including . Newcastle celebrates Allied Women's Day, 8 Mar 1943; . AMWU, NSW State Council, Meeting of Women Members to Discuss Women's Rights/Working Women's Charter, Nov 1976; . Sheet Metal Working Union, "Curtin Supports Equal Pay for Women", nd; . Building Workers Industrial Union, discussion note on equal pay and opportunities for women, 1963; . Women's March Action Campaign, Sydney, nd.
Women's Movement papers, cont.
Press cuttings, including reports on Marjorie Propsting, Jessie Street, Joan Childs, Kathleen Lester, Princess Elizabeth ofToro, Gertrude Shope, Joan Clarke, Rose Scott, Maya Plisetskaya, Nelli Schkolnikova, Claire Johnson, Alice Waten, Evelyn Reed and Zoe O'Leary, and a "Who's Who of Liberated Organisations for Women", Jul1973.
Press cuttings, including reports on female union members, child care and women in the metal trades.
Women's movement pamphlets
Australian Communist Party, A New Deal for Women, Sydney, 1944.
Australian Council of Trade Unions, What Maternity Leave Means to Women in the Workforce, nd.
Ann Barton, Mother Bloor.
Council of Action for Equal Pay, Australian Trade Union Policy on Equal Pay and Equal Status: ACTU takes action, (Leaflet No.3) Sydney, 1941.
7
Date Range
1943-1976
1965-1984
1971-1974
Z267 Box No.
Box25
Description
Council of Action for Equal Pay, Trade Union Policy and Equal Pay for the Sexes, (Pamphlet No.4).
J B Miles, Work Among Women, Sydney, Australian Communist Party, 1943.
Union of Australian Women, For the Rights of Women: three decades of struggle, 1950-1980. 30th anniversary of the Union of Australian Women, Sydney, 1980.
Union of Australian Women, Handbook for Women Unionists: a helpful guide and source of information, Sydney, 1975 (?).
Women in Our New World, Sydney, Current Book Distributors, 1947.
Women's movement serials
International Women's News (London) Vol36, No 12, Sep 1942
Women of the World (Women's International Democratic Federation) No 1, 1981
The Working Woman (Communist Party of New Zealand) Vol 4, No 10, Aug 1936
Woman Today (Sydney) Oct 1936
Peace movement papers (Mainly loose papers arranged by the Archivist)
List of Peace movement material held at the National Museum of Australia in the Barbara Wright Collection: badges, journals, flyers, photographs, pamphlets, commemorative, songs, letters, posters and newspapers.
8
Date Range
1935-1991
Z267 Box No.
Box25
Description
Association for International Cooperation and Disarmament, Sydney: circulars and leaflets re Vietnam War and strategy paper, Jul1983.
Aid to Victims of Aggression Conference, Sydney: motions for conference.
Australian Assembly for Peace, Sydney: report.
Australian Movement Against War and Fascism: revised constitution, nd and report of World Peace Congress, Brussels, 1936.
Australian & New Zealand Congress for International cooperation and Disarmament/ACICD: circulars & leaflets.
Australian Labour Party: leaflets and statement re disarmament.
Australian Peace Council: Songs of Peace, Australian Peace Congress, 1950.
Bankstown Peace Committee: correspondence, 1960, and newsletters, 1988-1989.
Communist Party of Australia: leaflets in support of the Hands Off China campaign and relating to the Cuba crisis.
Conference for Disarmament, Security and Cooperation in Asia Pacific: circulars and copies of Committee minutes.
Conscription- Vietnam War: leaflets and circulars.
Conscription- Vietnam War- Geoff Mullen (conscientious objector): photocopies of correspondence (originals held in the Barbara Wright Collection at the National Museum).
Conscription- World War II: leaflets.
International Peace Campaign: pamphlets and leaflets
International Peace Campaign: Sheet Metal Working Union, NSW Branch, bound file.
International Trade Union Committee for Solidarity with the Workers and People of South Vietnam: circulars.
Jewish Council to Combat Fascism and AntiSemitism: press release.
9
Date Range
1968-1983
Oct 1939
Sep 1956
nd & 1936
1959-1964
1962
1950
1960-1988/89
1930s-1960s
Sep 1989
1966-1970
Aug-Dec 1971
1939-1940
1936-1937
1936-1938
1964-1965
May 1956
Z267 Box No.
Box26
Description
Melbourne Unitarian Church: serials.
NSW Peace Committee: leaflets and pamphlets.
NSW Teachers' Federation: leaflet, All Wars Are Fought Against Children, Edwards & Shaw [printers].
Peace dedication ceremony, Cenotaph, Martin Place, Sydney.
Peace - general - uranium, anti-nuclear, Asia and Pacific, Middle East: leaflets, circulars and reports.
People for Nuclear Disarmament: leaflet, report and paper on strategy by J A Camilleri.
Project Vietnam Committee; Leaflets.
Provisional National Anti War Committee: report on the NSW Conference Against War.
Queensland Peace Committee: leaflet re Queensland and Northern NSW regional conference.
Spanish Civil War: paper by Phil Thorne on the Spanish Relief Committee, 1985; leaflet and the following pamphlets, Spanish State Tourist Department, Information Service, Fascism Destroys Spain's Art Treasures, nd; Louis Fischer, Why Spain Fights On, London, Union for Democratic Control, nd; Spain: report of the visit of an all-party group of members of parliament to Spain, London, nd (1936?) Juan Negrin, The !tala-German Aggression in Spain: three speeches, Geneva, 1937 Spanish National Commission in Defence of Children, Children in Franco Spain, 1952.
Sydney Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament: leaflet ancj. newsletter.
Sydney University ALP Club: circular re Australian troops in Thailand.
10
Date Range
1960
1960s
1950?
Sep 1938
1960s-1990s
1980s
1964-1966
8 Apr 1933
Mar 1963
1936-1937, 1985
1962-1963
1962
Z267 Box No.
Box26
Description
Trade unions, including Labor Council ofNSW: leaflets, circulars, statements and reports, including ,address on Vietnam by Professor Wheelwright to the Metal Trades Union conference, 1965.
Trade Union Peace Committee: circulars.
Vietnam Action Committee: circulars and leaflets.
Vietnam Moratorium Campaign: circulars, leaflets and some correspondence.
Vietnam War: press cuttings, sundry circulars, leaflets and pamphlets; also a paper, Oppose the Vietnam War, possibly by Tom Wright.
Women's peace organisations- Women's Rally For Peace, Second National Women's Peace Congress, Women For Peace: circulars and leaflets.
Women Strike for Peace (New York): leaflet and pamphlet.
Women's Peace Conference, Washington: press cutting.
World Federation of Trade Unions- Vietnam: circulars.
Women's International Democratic Federation: leaflet, serials.
Youth Carnival For Peace and Friendship: pamphlets and leaflet.
Peace Movf,lment Pamphlets
As One! For equality. For Happiness. For Peace. World Congress of Women: reports, speeches, Compenhagen, Jun 1953.
Arms and the Men: a primer on Europe's armament makers, Glebe NSW, S=Forms, nd.
Keith Buchanan, Growing Up in the Pacific, and E L Wheelwright, Some Thoughts on an Independent Foreign Policy, Sydney, Association for International Cooperation and Disarmament, nd.
11
Date Range
1943-1985
1976
1960s
1969-1971
1961-1970
1940s-1960s
1963
Jan 1939
1965-1966
1949 & 1963
1951-1952
Z267 Box No.
Box26
Description
Chinese Committee for World Peace, Statements by Two Captured US Air Force Officers on Their Participation in Germ Warfare in Korea, Peking, 1952.
Provisional Sponsoring Committee for the Asian Pacific Peace Conference, We Talked Peace with Asia, Redfern NSW, 1952
Second Anti-Fascist Women's Meeting, Moscow, May 10 1942, Moscow, Foreign Languages Press, 1942.
Reca Stone, Revolt in the Ghetto, Sydney, United Emergency Committee for European Jewry, 1944.
United Front Against War: report and manifesto of the World Anti-War Congress at Amersterdam, Aug 27-29 1932, London, British Delegation to the World Anti-War Congress, 1932.
Women's International Democratic Federation, Vietnam, Kampuchea, Laos: an eye witness report, Berlin, 1979.
12
Date Range
Z267 Box No.
Box27
Description
Peace movement serials
AICD Newsletter, No 4, Sep 1965 Volll, Nos 3 & 11, Apr & Mar 1966 Vol4, No 2, Dec 1970 Vol1, No 2, Oct 1971
Pacific (AJCD, Sydney) Vol1, Nos 2, 4 & 5, 1966-1967 Vol2, Nos 1,3, 5 & 6, 1967-1968
Australian Peace Review (Australian Peace Council), Vol1, No 1, Apr 1956
IPC Monthly Bulletin (International Peace Campaign) Vol 2, Nos 9 & 10, Sep & Oct 1937 Vol 3, Nos 1 & 2/3, Jan & Mar 1938.
8494 IPC Newsletter (International Peace Campaign) Nos 6-8, 10-11, 19, 28-29, 35, 1938-1939
Peace (Australian Peace Council) Vol1, No 1, Apr 1950
8724 Peace Action in Australia (NSW Peace Committee) Vol1, No 7, 1960 Vol 2, Nos 1, 3 & 4, 1961 Vol 5, No 9, 1963 Vol6, No 7, 1964
8442 Vietnam Action (Vietnam Action Campaign) No 3, 1967
Vietnamese Trade Unions (Vietnam Federation of Trade Unions) No.3, 1964
Woman Today (Women's Committee Against War and Fascism, London) Oct 1937
Local Government papers (See also file in Z267/Box 18)
13
Date Range
Z267 Box No.
Box27
Description
Council elections - Tom Wright's election to the position of Sydney City Council Alderman: CPA reports, position papers and leaflets, correspondence.
Municipal election campaigns: Returning Officer's reports, leaflets, and the following papers by Tom Wright: Communists and Local Government, Local, Government and Work in Local Government.
Alderman Tom Wright: press cuttings.
14
Date Range
1936-1956
1956-1959
1953-1958, 1978
Z267 Box No.
Box27
Box28
Description
Tom Wright obituaries, etc.
Obituaries and letters of condolence.
Obituaries, sympathy cards, letters and telegrams (album).
Sympathy cards and letters (bound volume).
Miscellaneous subject files and loose papers
Pat Clancy: press cuttings . "Clancy of the Kremlin", SMH, 17 Feb 1979; . his removal from Presidency of the SPA, Apr 1983
J W Davison: correspondence with USSR Embassy, Canberra, 1968, and "Thought on Frank Hardy", nd.
Drummoyne Modern Youth Club: constitution and rules (Peter Wright was a member).
Elizabeth (Betsy) Mathias: draftADB entry by Verity Burgmann.
Sacco and Vanzetti: article from the New York Times (marked P Drew).
Seamen's Union of Australia(?), Women's Committee: programme for meeting in support of restoration of democracy in Greece, including liberation songs sungs by the Women's Committee Choir.
Sheet Metal Working Union, Biennial Federal Conference: copies of minutes.
Sheet Metal Working Union(?), Conference resolutions on penal clauses, price control and telephone charges.
Socialist Party of Australia, 4th Congress: . proposed resolution re consideration of constitution; . amendment to be moved to the main political resolution; . resolution to be submitted by members of the outgoing Central Committee.
15
Date Range
1981
1981
1981
1979 & 1983
1968 & nd
nd
nd
17 Apr 1927
nd
May 1968
nd
nd
Z267 Box No.
Box28
Box29
Description
lOth World Festival of Youth and Students: circular re Australian participation.
Miscellaneous press cuttings.
Verse: . Recitation- McGee's First Waterloo. A camp fire yarn. (Ms, anon., part only, stanzas 1-6, 9-13) "So you want me to tell that yarn once more Well I don't mind if I do How I shore two hundred and twenty four In the season of seventy two ... "
. (Ms, anon) "Our fathers came in search of gold The claim it proved a duffer The syndicates and banks went broke & so we had to suffer ... "
Photographs The photographs mainly focus on Tom Wright and his activities, but include some of Mary Wright.
Album: photographs of Tom Wright. (This album requires conservation treatment.)
Portraits of Tom Wright (11 prints).
Sheet Metal Working Industrial Union of Australia, Federal Conference delegates, 1938, 1940, 1942, 1944, 1946, 1954, 1962, 1964, 1966,1968.
Union conferences (unidentified). 8 prints.
Union conference (unidentified) 5 prints.
Tom and Mary Wright being met at an unspecified airport. 6 prints.
Group of young people with Tom Wright in rural setting.
Tom Wright and group of people, Moscow(?).
Marya, Moscow.
Tom Wright and Pat Clancy during a visit to China. 11 prints.
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Date Range
nd
1952-1981
nd
1920s-1970s
1920s- 1970s
1938-1968
nd (1940s & 1950s?)
nd
nd
nd
1927
Oct 1927
1952(?)
Z267 Box No.
Box29
Box30
Description
Tom Wright, Pat Clancy and others in USSR. 20 prints.
Sheetmetal workshop employees.
Picket at Smiths Industries Pty Ltd, Sydney. 9 prints.
Eight Hour Day Committee, Sydney, on Clark Island.
Six Hour Day and May Day demonstrations: . Women with banner, "Under capitalism women are doubly oppressed - socialism will establish equality for the sexes", May Day, Sydney, 1933; . Sheet Matal Workers' float, Sydney May Day, 1947; . Tom Wright, 6 Hour Day, Sydney, Oct 194 7; . 8 other unidentified prints.
Clara Zetkin display, Berlin.
Memorial plaque for Roy Ockenden, conservationist, Wirrimbirra.
Memorabilia
NSW Department of Education qualifying certificate awarded to Tom Wright.
Notice to Mr P Wright informing him that his son, Thomas, had passed the Qualifying Certificate Examination.
Reference for Tom Wright from the Headmaster, Redfern Primary School.
USSR transit visa issued to Tom Wright.
Identity card issued to Tom Wright.
Australian Military Forces, Eastern Command, certificate of enrolment issued to Tom Wright.
Sheet Metal Working Industrial Union of Australia accreditation cards issued to Tom Wright.
Pension certificate issued to John Lamm.
Tea and Butter Ration Card issued to Mary Wright.
17
Date Range
1952 (?)
nd
nd (1960s?)
1931
1933-1960s
nd
1970
Feb 1916
Feb 1916
Jul1916
1927
Apr 1942
Jun 1942
1942 & 1955
1930
1949
Z267 Box No.
Box30
8580
Description
Australian passport issued to Mary Wright.
Certificate of vaccinations issued to Mary Wright.
Various invitations to Tom and Mary Wright.
Various business cards collected by Tom Wright.
May Day pennant from Spain.
IMF 2nd Asian Regional Conference, Sydney, pennant.
Miscellaneous leaflets
Miscellaneous serials
Apartheid (Committee for Human Rights in South Africa)
28 Oct 1963
Australia-USSR Friendship (Australia-USSR Society) Vol10, Nos 4 & 5, Jul1968 Vol12, No 2, Jun 1970 Vol13, No 2, Aug 1971
Fusion (Melboume) Vol 1, No 2, Jan 1984
8328 New Times (Moscow) No 4, 1953
Soviet Woman (Soviet Women's Committee, Central Council ofTrade Unions of USSR) No 6, Jun 1983
Miscellaneous pamphlets
Norman C Anderson, One Big Union for Australia, Melbourne, Andrade, nd.
Australian Council of Salaried & Professional Associations, The Basic Wage Dream, Melboume, Blue and White Collar Records, nd.
18
Date Range
1976
1976
1954-1974
nd
nd
Oct 1972
1960s-1970s
Z267 Box No.
Box30
Description
Australian Labor Party, For Australia (speech of J T Lang), Sydney, Labor Daily, nd.
Australian Labor Party, NSW Branch, Labor's Plan for Free Hospitals, Sydney, 1964.
George Black, A History of the NSW Political Labor Party from its Conception until1917, (No.1, "The Origins and Growth of the Labor Movement"), Sydney, nd.
J D Blake, The Anti-Soviet Trap, Sydney, Trade Union Socialist Activities Association, 1983.
W M Brown, Communism and Christianism, Galion, Ohio, Bradford-Brown Educational Co, 1920.
Ray Clarke, Marxism-Leninism! Trotskyism! The two totally opposite ideologies: an analysis of the joint statement between the Socialist Workers Party and the Socialist Party of Australia, Sydney, Association for Communist Unity nd (1985?).,
Guatemala News and Information Bureau, Guatemala - the Companeras speak: testimonies of six women, Berkeley, nd.
John Hamilton, A History of the Miners' Struggle, London, the Plebs' League, nd (1926?).
Labor Council ofNSW, Wages, Prices, Profits: the unions' answer, Sydney, 1960.
Labor Day Committee, NSW, A Souvenir Programme of the 1 DOth Anniversary Celebrations, 1855-1955, Sydney, 1955.
Sergei Malshev, The Unemployed Councils in St Petersburg in 1906, London, Modern Books, 1931.
Melbourne Trades Hall Council, We Remember! Efforts of men to establish unionism, Melbourne, 1956.
Tom Nelson, A Century of a Union, Sydney, Waterside Workers Federation of Australian Sydney Branch, 1972.
Sasha Small, Ten Years of Labor Defense, New York Internation Labor Defense, 1935.
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Date Range
Z267 Box No.
Box30
Description
Socialist Party of Australia, For Information: Trotskyism and Leninism, 1971.
Songs of the People, nd.
State Unemployed and Relief Workers Council of NSW, Annual Conference Report, Sydney, Jun 1936.
Sydney May Day Committee, "The Red Flag"; "Solidarity For Ever", 1965.
Pete Thomas, The Beef Rustlers, Brisbane, 1968.
Pete Thomas, Buried Treasure, Brisbane, 1964.
USSR: one hundred questions and answers, Moscow, 1977.
Ulianovsk: Lenin's native city, Moscow, nd.
Additional deposit received Nov 1997 from Barbara Wright
Correspondence
Letter from Max Brown (Dangar Island, NSW) to Tom Wright (New Deal for Aborigines)
Letter from John Sendy (Kingower, Vic) to Peter Wright (History of CPA)
Letters from Nicholas Peterson (Prehistory & Anthropology, ANU) to Tom Wright (Aboriginals, land rights, Olive Pink,
Letter from Amirah Inglis to Peter Wright (Australians in Spain Memorial Appeal)
20
Date Range
11 Nov 1974
12 May 1988
May 1979- Jul1980
9 Sep 1992.
Z267 Box No.
Box30
Box31
Description
Additional deposit received, c. 1995
Loose papers
'Don't work black ships' pamphlet and court summons for Tom Wright for printing the pamphlet
Flier promoting election ofT om Wright as Secretary-Treasurer, Sheet Metal Workers' Union, and flier re Mass Public Meeting to be addressed by Tom Wright, J. Healy and E. Thornton
Ephemera
'Dinner in honour of Rex Taylor on his retirement from Email Limited' (menu and proceedings) and admission/name tags for ACTU Special Congress, Melbourne, 1952 and Sydney Cricket Ground, honorary member admission
Books owned by anthropologist Olive Pink
Adam in Ochre: Inside Aboriginal Australia by Colin Simpson, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1952
Australian Legendary Tales by K. Langloh Parker (selected by H. Drake-Brockman and illustrated by Elizabeth Durack), Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1953
Printed trade union reports and proceedings
'Official report and balance sheet of the New South Wales Labour Defence Committee, together with detailed list of subscriptions received during the Great Strike, Aug. to Nov., 1890' by Jas. Finch (Chairman) and G.A. Edwards (Secretary), Sydney
'Official Report of the Resolutions and Debates of the Annual Congress of Trade Unions in new South Wales', 2nd Annual Congress, held in the Trades Hall, Sydney, 13-24 April 1909
21
Date Range
1928
c. 1950s, 1970s
1952-1970s
1952
1953
1890
1909
Z267 Box No.
Box31
Description
Audio records
Oh Pay Me (Margins Campaign Songs: Wage and Salary Justice Year, 1962), produced for the Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations, Blue and White Collar Records
Basic Wage Dream: Campaign songs - The Basic Wage Campaign of 1964, produced for the Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations
Ballad of Women, arising from International Women's Day Celebrations, Brisbane, 1962
J.B. Miles: A Communist Pioneer, commentary by Edgar Ross. John Bramwell Miles (1888-1969) was General Secretary of the Communist Party of Australia, 1931-1948
Films
Sound film: 'Mien Kind' ('My Child'), commentary possibly in English, 'made at a Berlin factory' (written on the film in Russian) (16mm, 18cm reel, b&w)
22
Date Range
1962
1964
1964
c. early 1970s
1960s