THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE ARCHIVES. Frazer, Margaret NAME OF COLLECTION ACCESSION NO 93/158. Other, individuals Political activists

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1 THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE ARCHIVES NAME OF COLLECTION Frazer, Margaret ACCESSION NO 93/158 CATEGORY ACTIVITY Other, individuals Political activists DATE RANGE SIZE OF COLLECTION HISTORICAL NOTE DATE OF TRANSFER ACCESS CONDITIONS DESCRIPTION 7 archive boxes Margaret and Jim Frazer were Scottish immigrants who became involved in the Peace movement and had a particular interest in peace culture. Jim Frazer was secretary of the Victorian Branch of the Australian Railways Union Open Papers, booklets and press clippings relating to the Peace and Anti-War movements from the mid 1950s up to the mid-1980s. The collection was compiled in part by the late Reverend rman Anderson, Congregational minister of Castlemaine. Much of the anti-war material is related to the campaign against the Vietnam War, conscription, the sufferings of the Vietnamese people and war crimes including a collection of papers given at the 1971 National Anti-War Conference of the Vietnam Moratorium Campaign. Leaflets and organizational papers relate to meetings rallies and campaigns by CICD, PND and MAUM against nuclear weapons and nuclear power. A folder of notices relate to the art displays (including the Hiroshima Panels), film showings and concerts staged by the Peace movement. The Collection holds two book manuscripts by Ralph Gibson along with accompanying notes and clippings: The Fight Goes On and The People Stand Up - and two chapters of a third manuscript. NOTE ON COLLECTIONS NOTE ON LISTING Where the collection was in no discernible order, it has been arranged by campaign focus. Artificial series have been imposed. LISTED BY Les Dalton DATE - E:\COLLECTION MANAGEMENT\Inventories\UMArchives\Lists(F-K)\Frazer, Margaret (93~158).doc

2 Table of Contents 1 Anti-Vietnam War Campaign p.2 2 Peace and Disarmament, Issues and p.2 Campaigns 3 Anti-Nuclear Weapons and Power p.3 Campaign 4 Peace and Anti-War Organisations p. 3 5 Civil Liberties and Human Rights p. 4 6 Australia and the Pacific p. 4 7 Ralph Gibson manuscripts and related p. 5 notes and press clippings 8 Audiovisual: Slide set for talk on nuclear-armed c. 1970s p. 5 vessels in the Pacific. Audio tape 1983 p. 5 9 Photographs. 1950s 1970s p Posters 1950s 1980s 2

3 1 Anti-Vietnam War Campaign range 1 1/1 Vietnam Moratorium Campaign; National Anti-War Conference: papers. 1 1/2 Vietnam Moratorium Campaign: minutes, circulars, publications, clippings, visit by Dr Spock; Pentagon Papers; critical internal discussion on conduct of anti-war campaign. 1 1/3a Anti-Vietnam Campaign: pamphlets [Australian Atrocities in Vietnam; American Atrocities in Vietnam; Children of Vietnam]; leaflets, clippings on Medical Aid for the NLF. 1 1/3b Anti-Vietnam Campaign: pamphlets [Vietnam Is It The Truth We Want, J F Cairns, Geneva Agreement on Vietnam]. 1 1/4 Anti-Conscription Campaign: pamphlets, flyers, clippings on draft resistance and conscientious objection Peace and Disarmament, Issues and Campaigns 2 2/1 Peace and Anti-War Campaign: pamphlets [American Bases in Australia; Documents of the Australian and New Zealand Congress for Cooperation and Disarmament; Peace an exhibition peace education kit, Museum of Victoria], leaflets, newsletters and peace conference papers 2 2/2 Peace and Anti-War Campaign: pamphlets, press clippings, booklets and magazines [Statement of Common Beliefs, Alf Dickie; Constitution of the Congress for International Cooperation and Disarmament Pacem In Terris Pope John 1963; Illegality of War; Let s Abolish War Prospect of Peace; Defence and the Economy; etc] 2 2/3 Peace and Anti-War Campaign press clipping scrapbooks related to the 1950 Melbourne Peace Congress and the controversy surrounding it. 2 2/4 Peace and Anti-War Campaign press clipping scrapbooks related to the 1950 Melbourne Peace Congress and the controversy surrounding it. 2 2/5 Peace and Disarmament Campaign: pamphlets, circulars, booklets and magazines [General, Total, Controlled Disarmament; What Shall We Tell the Children; Rising Cost of Killing; March to War or the March to Peace; tes on a short history of the Australian Peace Movement by Malcolm Saunders and Ralph Summy; copies of Peace Action, , Catholic Peacemaker, ; Sydney to Canberra Walk for World Disarmament; The Role of Peace Clergymen in the Peace Movement of the Fifties. 2 2/6 Anti- War and Peace Events: exhibitions, theatre performances, concerts, balls and publications by, or in association with, the peace movement [Hiroshima Panels; Peace; Aquarius War Resisters International; Target, Eureka Youth League; A Time to Choose Poets and artists Express desire for a Nuclear Free World] 3 2/7 Peace, Disarmament and Anti-War Campaigns: pamphlets, circulars, booklets, conference reports, and magazines [My Pilgrimage for Peace, Frank Hartley; His Life is Children, Benjamin Spock; Peace Action, NSW Peace Committee, October 1962 July 1964, July 1965; Peace Studies, Sept 1983, June, Oct 1986; Stockholm Congress for Disarmament and International Cooperation 1958; Melbourne Peace Congress, 1959]; 1971 National Anti-War Conference. 3 2/8 Commemoration of Hiroshima: booklets and flyers and leaflets on meetings, walks and marches. [ More Hiroshimas Sixth World

4 Conference, A Brief View of the Effects of Atomic Bomb in Hiroshima, Give Me Water Testimonies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki] Anti-Nuclear Weapons and Power Campaign 3 3/1 Campaigns against Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Bases in Australia: flyers and leaflets on meetings, walks and marches; booklets [Current Digest on Nuclear Material, International Institute of Peace; Nuclear War in Europe; War and Peace the nuclear Edition; Effects on Human Health of Atomic and Hydrogen Bomb Explosions, International Health Commission]. 3 3/2 Campaigns against Nuclear Power and Uranium Mining and for Nuclear-Free Zones and Renewable Energy: flyers and leaflets on meetings, walks and marches; booklets and information kits [Nuclear- Free Zones: some basic questions; Uranium: Citizen Response Kit; Uranium Resource Kit; Nuclear Power: Stop and Think; Background to Roxby Downs; Energy Strategy the road not taken, Amory Lovins; Soft Energy the only option]. Peace and Anti-War Organisations 3 4/1 Victorian Peace Council: newsletters, information sheets and bulletins [If the Arms Race were Stopped, M Rubinstein]. 3 4/2 Trade Unions campaigns on world peace and nuclear energy and weapons; leaflets, information sheets, broadsheets and notices. [Tocsin, ALP Newsletter; Uranium, Nuclear Power and the Trade Union Movement]. 4 4/3 Bulletin World Peace Council Oct 1959 April 1960 (7 issues); New Perspectives 1987 (1 copy). 4 4/4 People for Nuclear Disarmament: flyers and leaflets on meetings, conferences, rallies and marches; booklets and information kits [Australian Nuclear Disarmament Conference, 1985; Disarmament Declaration 6 background papers; A New Hope; Disarmament. 4 4/5 People for Nuclear Disarmament: newsletters, flyers and leaflets on meetings; bulletins on Disarmament Declaration Campaign ; campaign against Watsonia satellite ground station. 4 4/6 Victorian Peace Association Studies: pamphlets [ Peace Dossier: 4 Nuclear War; the threat to Australia; 6 Peace: a witness of faith; 7 Debate on the ANZUS Alliance; 9 The Deadly Connection: uranium mining, nuclear power and nuclear weapons; 15 The European Peace Movements and the Disarmament negotiations; 22 Choosing Australia s Defence] 4 4/7 Regional Peace Groups: leaflets, notices of meetings, press clippings Civil Liberties and Human Rights 4 5/1 Civil Liberties, Human Rights and Development: pamphlets, flyers, press clippings [Campaign tes on Crimes Bill, Council for Civil Liberties; The Press Gang, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, The Springbok Match in Canberra A Report by the Council for Civil Liberties, In Defence of Freedom Melbourne Citizens; Protest Against Repression, Democratic Rights Council] Australia and the Pacific 4 6/1 Australia and the Pacific: booklets, information sheets, flyers and information sheets on Australia s relations with Pacific nations [Pacific s

5 War-Peace-International Relations, January, July 1967 and January 1968; The Timor Story, Helen Hill; That Rascal Rhee, Wilfred Burchett; Nuclear-Free Zones in the Pacific] Ralph Gibson Manuscripts and Related tes and Press Clippings 4 7/1 Manuscript of The Fight Goes On, Ralph Gibson, chapters 1 10 c /2 Manuscript of The Fight Goes On, Ralph Gibson, chapters c /3 Manuscript of The Fight Goes On, Ralph Gibson, spare chapters c /4 Clippings and notes related to The Fight Goes On /5 Clippings and notes related to The Fight Goes On /6 Clippings and notes related to The Fight Goes On /7 Clippings and notes related to The Fight Goes On /8 Draft manuscript of Ralph Gibson s The People Stand Up; chapters: 1) 1980s Eve of Crisis; 2) The Communist Party ( ); The Forward Movement; 5) The Sectarian Blight; 6) The Comintern; 9) (incomplete); 10) The February Days and after;11) Movement Against War and Fascism; 12) The Abyssinian War A Turning Point; 13) The Brussels Peace Congress 6 7/9 Draft manuscript of Ralph Gibson s The People Stand Up 14) Stalin; 1980s 15) A People s Democracy; The Spanish Far Left; 17) China Till the Long March; 18) China at War; 19) India Makes History; 20) Munich; 21) The Communist Party Holds Its Review; 22) Keeping the Democratic Path Open; 23) The Arts and the Social Struggle in the 1930s: 24) The Last Years of Peace; 25) The Communists and the First Part of the Second World War 6 7/10 Two chapters of an unnamed draft manuscript(s) by Ralph Gibson: 1) 1980s Enter Hitler 2) The Premiers Plan 6 7/11 Clippings and notes related to Ralph Gibson s manuscript The People Stand Up Australian communist thinking; migrants. 6 7/12 Clippings and notes related to Ralph Gibson manuscript The People /13 Clippings and notes related to Ralph Gibson manuscript The People /14 Clippings and notes related to Ralph Gibson manuscript The People /15 Clippings and notes related to Ralph Gibson manuscript The People /16 Clippings and notes related to Ralph Gibson manuscript The People Audiovisual 7 8/1 VHS videotape Story of a Vietnam War orphan. The story of a 1980s Vietnamese orphan taken to USA who grew up in that country. 7 8/2 VHS videotape On the Side of the Angels Claire Jager and 1980s Margaret Frazer. 7 8/3 VHS videotape Cold Comfort An account of the hazards and 1980s problems of the nuclear power industry, used in schools and community by the Movement Against Uranium Mining. 7 8/4 Audiotape with Dr Helen Caldicott for the Physicians Against War Photographs BWP/2801 9/1 Sam Goldbloom and Rev Alf Dickie (L to R) with a visiting delegation c

6 of Vietnamese. BWP/2802 9/2 Rev Alf Dickie with visiting Vietnamese c BWP/2803 9/3 Revs Frank Hartley (R), Alf Dickie (far R) and Victor James (L) with two others 1950s 1960s BWP/2804 9/4 Save Our Sons walk led by Jean McLean c BWP/2805 9/5 Two Anti-conscription campaigners with policeman c BWP/2806 9/6 Two Anti-conscription campaigners with policeman c BWP/2807 9/7 Two Anti-conscription campaigners with policeman c BWP/2808 9/8 An anti-conscription campaigners with policeman c BWP/2809 9/9 Reverend Victor James c BWP/2810 9/10 Unknown minister at microphone 1960s BWP/2811 9/11 Speaker at microphone 1960s BWP/2812 9/12 Speaker at microphone 1960s BWP/2813 9/13 Harold Blair (singer) (far right) 1960s BWP/2814 9/14 Unknown assembly BWP/2815 9/15 Person addressing meeting. with Rev rman Anderson (far left) and 1960s Rev Frank Hartley (far right) at Melbourne Stadium BWP/2816 9/16 Peace meeting at Melbourne Stadium Banner: Negotiation must displace war 1960s Posters Envelope 1 10/1 Here comes Kisch - New Theatre Map 10/2 Princess of Peace Fancy Dress Ball Drawers 10/3 Vietnam The Aftermath State Film Centre 10/4 Unemployed Day Mass Demonstration 1980s 10/5 Australia s Peaceful Development and Relations with Other Countries 10/6 Australian Nuclear Disarmament Conference 1980s 10/7 Support World Campaign for Disarmament 1950s 10/8 Menzies Exposed Supports Atom War. 1950s 10/9 Put Your Foot Down for Peace 10/10 Palm Sunday Rally 1980s 10/11 End All Tests Ban the Bomb 10/12 Australia An Atom Free Country (an apron0 10/13 Say to A Nuclear Future Travel by Tram or Train to Rally to Ban 1970s Uranium Mining 10/14 Stop Uranium Mining Flagstaff Gardens 1870s 10/15 The Come for Peace 1970s 10/16 End Vietnam War Get the Boys Home Support Moratorium May /17 Register for national service do your own My Lai for US Imperialism 10/18 Spock Speaks Against the War In Person 1970s 10/19 Vietnam Must Have Real Peace w Moratorium /20 El pueblo jamas rera vencido1 (The people united will never be 1970S defeated0 (car sticker) 10/21 Lidice Envelope 2 10/22 Ban Atomic Weapons The Peoples Are For Peace E N D 5