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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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1968 c1936-c1973

cl916-c1972 cl948-o1982 c1937-c1964 c1968-c1981 c1927-o1973

c1982

o1941-c1970 01934-1984

c1933-c1967 c1938-cl983

c1956-o1983

o1927-c1971

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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cl932-cl969

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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cl934-cl971

cl943-cl974

cl919-cl984

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

4

cl936-cl971

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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nd 1962 1962

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

nd nd

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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nd

1972 1963

nd

1962 nd

1966

1951

1918

1914

1912

1939

nd

1944 1943

1933 1934

1964

1961

1961 1961

1961 1961 1961 1933

1961 1950

1944 1944

nd

1960 1951

1950 1951

nd

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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1937 1962

nd 1977 1959

nd nd

1926

1959 1959 1970

nd nd nd

1975 1934

nd 1954 1938.

nd

nd 1922

nd nd nd nd nd nd nd nd nd nd nd nd

1945

1924

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

nd nd

nd

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

Box 9

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

Box 12

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

nd

nd

Noel Butlin Archives Centre Item List for Deposit: Z267 Additional deposit, received 9 Jun 1993.

Loc. No. File Ref. Title

Record Group: Tom and Mary Wright Series Title: Tom and Mary Wright: correspondence

17 Mary to Tom Wright.

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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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26 Oct 1931

14 Aug 1933

To

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

Noel Butlin Archives Centre

Item List for Deposit: Z267

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Title

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".

17

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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From

23 May 1944

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.

From

21 Sep 1973

Series Title: Women's movement: reports, articles, leaflets and conference papers

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17

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Hem List #1 as at 2 Aug 1993

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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1965

1980

1978

1981



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Title

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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1 8

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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Item List #1 as at 2 AUg 1993

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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7 Oct 1944

30 Aug 1944

1979

1934

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1982

1973



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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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1984

1927

1964

Nov 1948

27 Feb 1933

1963

Jan 1935

1981

1985

7 Aug 1987

10 Mar 1952

Dec 1945

1913

To

1987

1914



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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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Item List #1

as at 2 Aug 1993

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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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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1920 1970

1952

1937 1940

1936 1945

1970 1980



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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.

8

From To

1934 1963

27 Apr 1950

1950



Lac. No. File Ref.

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1 9

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

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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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1952

1938

1961

1979

1948

1983

1966

1966

1961

1944

1945

1970

1936

1983

1960



Lac. No. File Ref.

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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, 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 Esther Neville(?).

3

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, Brisbane.


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- 2KYtalk.

Referendum Talk- 2UE- 7.45pm- Saturday.

Report on visit to the Soviet Union.

4

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.

16

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.

19

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

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