WUA History The South Coast branch of the Waterside Workers Federation was constituted in 1915. Records in the present collection date from 1931. Record Summary Correspondence, minutes of meetings, information files, financial records, publications. Date 1931-1981 Quantity 37.35m Access Records transferred to Noel Butlin Archives, Australian National University, Canberra, February 1992. Accessioned c. 1983 Listed For a detailed listing of the General Correspondence and Minutes, refer Narelle Crux, 'Inventory to the General Correspondence of the South Coast Branch, 1954-1981 and the Minutes of Federal Council, 1957-1979, of the Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia', October 1983, 73p. RAAM No. 18131 (21985) 1
WUA 1 Correspondence - general 1954-81 1 1954-55 2 1956 3 1956 4 1957 5 1957-8 6 1958 7 1958-60 8 1959 9 1959 10 1960 11 1960 12 Jan - Jun 1961 13 Jul - Dec 1961 14 1961 15 1962 16 1962 17 1963 18 1963 19 1963 20 1964 21 1964 22 1964 23 1965 24 1965 25 1966 26 1966 27 1967 28 1967 29 1968 30 1969 31 1970 32 1971 33 1972 34 1973 35 1974 36 1975 37 1976 38 1977 39 1978 40 1979 Jan - Jun 41 1979 Jul - Dec 42 1980 Jan - Jun 43 1980 Jul - Oct 44 1981 - Jan - Sep 2 Minutes and Papers of Federal Council 1957-79 1 Sep - Oct 1957 2 Sep - Oct 1958 3 Sep 1959 4 Sep - Oct 1960 5 Jun - Jul 1961 6 Feb - Mar 1962 7 Oct 1962 8 Oct 1962 9 Sep - Oct 1963 10 Sep - Oct 1964 11 Sep - Oct 1965 12 May 1965 13 Sep 1966 14 Sep 1966 15 Apr 1967 16 Sep 1967 2
WUA 17 Feb - Mar 1968 18 Sep - Oct 1968 19 Sep - Oct 1969 20 Sep - Oct 1969 21 Sep - Oct t 1970 22 Sep 1971 23 Jan - Oct 1072 24 Sep - Oct 1973 25 Sep - Oct 1974 26 Sep - Oct 1975 27 Jul - Oct 1976 28 Apr 1977, Sep - Oct 1977 29 Sep 1978 30 Sep - Oct 1979 3 Correspondence - Federal Office 1964-81 1 1964-66 2 1968 3 1969 4 1970 5 1971-72 6 1973 7 1974 8 1975-76 9 1977 10 1978 11 1979 12 1979 13 1979 14 1979 15 1980 16 1981 4 Minutes - All Ports Conferences 1 1956 2 1958 3 1962 4 1964 5 1967 6 1970 7 1970 8 1970 9 1973 10 1973 11 1976 12 1979 5 Minutes - South Coast Labour Council 1 1962-66 2 1967-69 3 1970-73 4 1974-75 5 1976 3
WUA 6 Branch News 1 1965-69 [incomplete] 2 1970-71 3 1972-75 4 1976-78 5 1980-81 7 Industrial Relations Committee 1 Minutes of meetings 1969-72 8 Port Waratah Stevedoring Co. 1 Correspondence 1966-74 2 Correspondence 1975-77 3 Agreement with Kwinana Stevedoring Co. Pty Ltd. 1969 9 Australian Labor Party 1 Correspondence and circulars 1962-72 2 Correspondence and circulars 1971-74 3 Annual conference 1963 4 Annual conference 1964 5 Press statements 1973-74 10 Councillor 1 Election Ballots and Financial Statements 1970-77 2 Memos re Wage Rates and General Industry Contracts 1971-74 3 Memos re Wage Rates and General Industry Contracts 1974-75 4 Memos re Wage Rates and General Industry Contracts 1976-80 5 Memos re Wage Rates and General Industry Contracts 1977-78 6 Memos re Council Voting 1917-75 7 Memos re Council Voting 1975-78 8 Memos re Transfers 1973-78 9 Federal Advisory Committee on Waterfront Accident Prevention - minutes 1973-78 10 International Affair 1973-78 4
WUA 11 Social Services, Pensions, and Workers' Compensation 1970-78 12 Job Conditions and Disputes 1970-78 13 Industry Re- structuring 1975-78 14 Miscellaneous 1971 15 Australian National Line (ANL) 1975-78 11 Australian National Line 1 Agreements 1968-74 2 Agreement 1976 3 Correspondence e1975-77 12 South Coast Pollution and Environmental Control 1 Correspondence 1962-70 2 Correspondence 1972-76 13 Federal Advisory Committee on Waterfront Accident Prevention 1 Minutes 1-60 1960-68 14 Port Kembla Advisory Panel on Waterfront Accident Prevention 1 Minutes 1-66 1961-72 15 Life Membership 1 Applications 1968-75 2 Applications 1976-79 16 Stevedoring Employers of Australia Limited, Port Kembla Branch (SEAL) 1 Correspondence 1968-78 17 Re-structuring of Stevedoring Industry 1 Northrop Report 1976 18 Stevedoring Industry Commission 1 Minutes of meetings 1944-47 5
WUA 2 Minutes of meetings 1948-49 3 Port Orders 1948-49 4 Port Orders 1947-73 19 Ports Committee of Combined Waterfront Unions 1 Minutes of meetings and correspondence 1959-75 20 Small Ports - Registration 1 Labour statistics for various Australian ports 1972 21 National Stevedoring Industry Conference 1 Permanent Employment Agreement 1968 22 Stevedoring Industry Act 1956 23 Transfers 1 Transfer cards 1957-59 2 Authorisation 1975-77 3 Authorisation 1977-81 4 Correspondence 1973-80 24 Redundancy and Retirement Correspondence 1968-72 25 Idle Time Statistics 1969-72 26 Annual Leave Periods 1 1964-75 2 1975-80 6
WUA 27 Citations and Telegrams 1 1962-69 (citations) 2 1969-73 (telegrams) 3 1970-78 (citations) 4 1974-78 (telegrams) 28 the Association of Employees of Waterside Labour 1 Correspondence 1968-75 2 Renewal Remittance Statements 1970-73 29 BHP 1 Correspondence re negotiations for Agreement 1969-72 30 Maritime Services Board of NSW 1 Annual Reports 1961-62, 1966-67, 1968-69, 1969-70, 1970-71, 1971-72, 1972-73, 1975-76 2 Port Statistics 1966-67, 1967-68, 1968-69, 1969-70, 1970-71, 1971-72, 1973-74, 1974-75, 1975-76 3 Various publications 31 Automation 1 papers - seminar on Automation, 21-22 Aug 1969 32 Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority 1 Reports 1950-52 2 Reports 1954-59 3 Reports 1960-69 4 Reports 1970-78 5 Quarterly Statistics 1956-58 6 Quarterly Statistics 1959-60 7 Quarterly Statistics 1961-62 8 Quarterly Statistics 1963-64 9 Quarterly Statistics 1967-68 7
WUA 10 Quarterly Statistics 1969 11 Quarterly Statistics 1970 12 Quarterly Statistics1971 13 Quarterly Statistics 1972-73 14 Correspondence 1968-70 33 Branch Financial Records 1 Income Ledger 1956 2 Expenditure Ledger 1956 3 Expenditure 1956 4 Income and expenditure Ledger 1959-66 5 Expenditure Ledger 1959-62 6 Income Ledger 1959-66 7 Income and Expenditure Ledger - sustenance Fund 1965 8 Expenditure Ledger 1963 9 Income and Expenditure Ledger 1966-67 10 Income and Expenditure Ledger - Sustenance Fund 1966-71 11 Expenditure Ledger 1966-70 12 Balance Sheets 1950-62 13 Balance Sheets 1963-72 14 Balance Sheets 1963-67 (extra copies) 15 Taxation Records 1976-80 34 Federal Financial Records 1 Auditors Report - Federal 1961-72 2 Financial Statements - Federal 1957-67 [incomplete] 3 Financial Statements - Federal 1968-70 35 Job Delegates' Association 1 Annual Convention - agenda and minutes 1955-56 Guide for delegates (Townsville Branch) 2 1 st Conference of Port Kembla Branch - minutes 1966 Minutes of various branch conference 1959-68 8
WUA 36 Industrial Relations Committee, Port Kembla 1 Minutes of meetings 1963-68 2 Minutes of meetings 1964-65 37 Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) 1 Decisions of the ACTU Executive Meetings 1965-72 38 Picnic Day 1 Correspondence 1964-71 2 Correspondence 1972-81 39 Legal 1 Solicitors - correspondence 1967-80 2 Correspondence 1970-80 40 Miscellaneous Files 1 The Federated Clerks Union of Australia 1973-78 2 The Stevedoring Employees' Retirement Fund (SERF) 1965-74 3 Stevedoring Industry Act 1965 4 Melbourne Branch Conference, 21-22 feb 1965 5 5 th Biennial National Conference, 18 Oct 1954 - Secretary's reports 1954 6 AICD 1969-70 7 First All Pacific and Asian Dockworks' Conference 1959 8 Port Kembla Stevedoring and Agency Co. Pty Ltd 1969-72 9 May Day 1976-80 10 Federal Advisory Committee on Waterfront Accident Prevention 11 National Workers' Contral conference, Newcastle, Easter 1973 12 Correspondence with other branches 1968-73 13 Logs of claims 1971 14 Waterside workers' of Australia Credit Union Ltd. 15 Union contributions 1974-79 16 Award Agreements 1968 9
WUA 17 Nations Port Development Seminar, Newcastle 6-7 June 1981 18 Gangs and Floaters 1968-69 19 Penalties 1956-57 20 ALP Press Statements Correspondence re retirement 1974 21 Job resolutions 1969-73 22 DCC News Tokyo 1966-67 41 Wharfie - a communist publication 1 Port Kembla 1968-73 2 Port Kembla 1974-77 3 Brisbane 1968-72 4 Other branches 1971-73 5 Other branches 1975-78 42 Port News - a publication of the South Coast Branch 1961-72 43 New Perspectives - journal of the World Peace Council 1 1/78, 4/79, 6/79 44 Workforce - national weekly newsletter on industrial relations 1 1980-81 45 Roundabout - bulletin of the South Coast branch Waterside Workers' Women's Committee 1 1964-70 46 Minutes of Meetings 1931-80 1 Branch Meetings 3/2/31-17/4/39 2 Branch Meetings 23/4/39-8/12/42 3 Branch Meetings 13/12/42-11/8/45 4 Branch Meetings 19/8/45-29/6/47 5 Branch Meetings 13/7/47-30/6/50 10
WUA 6 Branch Meetings 14/7/50-27/4/53 7 Branch Meetings 22/5/53-14/2/58 8 Executive Meetings 13/7/61-24/10/72 9 Executive Meetings 14/1/63-25/7/67 10 Executive Meetings 13/10/67-7/5/79 11 Executive Meetings 25/5/79-30/6/81 12 General Meetings 26/4/74-18/1/78 13 Port Committee meetings 24/8/62-23/6/71 14 Committee of Management meetings 5/4/78-10/10/79 15 Committee of Management meetings 17/9/80 Minutes - fair 1931-39 8 v. 21 cm. Manuscript and typescript minutes of the committee of management and disciplinary committee, general meetings and general stop work meeting. The series contains no minutes for the periods 30 Jan - 28 Jun 1957 or 30 Jul - 13 Nov 1957 although rough minutes for the latter period have been preserved [See Series 2] 1 3 Feb 1931-17 Apr 1939 2 23 Apr 1939-8 Dec 1942 3 13 Dec 1942-11 Aug 1945 4 19 Aug 1945-29 Jun 1947 5 13 Jul 1947-30 Jun 1950 6 14 Jul 1950-27 Apr 1953 7 22 May 1953-14 Feb 1958 8 22 Feb 1958-29 Jul 1966 Minutes - rough 1954-58 3 v. 3 cm. Rough minutes of the committee of management and disciplinary committee, general meetings and general stop work meetings. 1 8 Sep 1954-4 Apr 1955 2 28 Jul 1957-17 Dec 1957 3 28 Nov 1956-1 Jul 1958 11
WUA Port News [South Coast Branch edition] 1973-79 2 cm. Official branch bulletin of the WWF: South Coast Branch, printed at irregular intervals, though on average of twice monthly. 1 Jan 1973 - Dec 1979 Branch Bulletins 1970-71 5 cm. Printed bulletins from WWF branches, title include - Wharfie, Special Branch News and Branch News. 12